We’ve been framed!

Progress on the house has been coming along nicely.  Scott and Neil have been working hard, Arden has been doing the more skilled labor, the engineering and generally keeping everything on track and Lorraine has logistics under control.

All of the windows are in, demolition is complete and the walls have all been framed.  These two upstairs bedroom had paneling that was just glued on to the walls.

The bedrooms are now framed and ready for the electrical, insulation, and drywall.

 

The basement is now all framed with all the windows in.  We should hopefully get most of the electrical done this week, and maybe all of the plumbing (keep your fingers crossed!)

The window wells outside turned out really nicely.  Scott did a great job grading the soil so it slopes away from the house. 

We have a new outside yard hydrant that hooks up to the main water line.  Our plants are still doing OK, despite not being able to water them every day. 

 

Yeah for fresh grown tomatoes!

Road closed

We’ve found many revealing things about our house by trying to renovate a couple of rooms (more than we ever wanted to know, to tell the truth.)  Even though we didn’t plan on doing all this stuff, it’s good to get things taken care of. 

Here we have the road closed off just for us so they can put in a new sewer line.  The old one was made of clay and had several breaks in it and it it was partly disconnected out in the street.  

 

That hole by our house is over 7 feet deep.  Here’s one of the backhoes they used to dig up the street.

  

Here’s the dumpster that has become a permanent fixture in our driveway.  They’ve already dumped it 3 times.  Ian has the quite the formidable crowbar skills.

 

Here is our gutted basement family room.  Arden pulled off an amazing bit of engineering to raise the height of the downstairs entrance.

One of the surprises after we pulled down all the ceiling tiles were the 6 structurally unsound joists.  Here’s 2 that they had notched to put in some lights.  Here’s one they cut into for a heating duct that has started to split.

Here is one of 2 joists that someone inexplicably cut straight up into, and then decided they better patch them with some 2x4’s.

  

We are glad to have them fixed before our floor caves in.  What a relief!