The walls of our foundation are up and ready for inspecting! Hopefully all will go well on Tuesday and we'll be able to pour the walls on Wednesday!
Holy tall walls!!
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Start of Foundation Walls and Apron
They started building the walls for the foundation. Will probably take another day or two to finish.
That's a lot of rebar! Since the back side will essentially be a retaining wall because it is against the hill, I guess they use more rebar than normal. They said there are still a couple of horizontal layers to be added.
Those panels need to go up around the whole house where cement is going to be poured. Have to get all the rebar in place first, though!Our driveway now has an apron. No, it's not pretty like the aprons Mel made me for Christmas...just plain old asphalt. Don't ask me because I don't really understand the point of it either. Has something to do with right-of-way access off main road and a requirement from King County building department, so here it is! Nice bonus is the guy graded the driveway and filled in the potholes while he was at it (thank you, guy, whoever you are!). I know, next week when the cement truck comes to pump the foundation, the pot holes will be there again. It will be nice for a least a few days!
Friday, May 21, 2010
Footings being Poured
Cement truck and pump truck.
Cement truck dumping into pump truck.
Video of them pouring:
MacGyver had a great time, but had quite the bath when we got home!
If you look close, you can see all the sticky weeds stuck to him along with all the mud!
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Rock and Footings
Today we got a load of huge rocks to make a "construction entry" (a.k.a. a rock driveway). They are big! I don't know if ole Honey Wagon is going to survive driving over these things - luckily they won't be the permanent driveway!
So, our hole got filled with just a touch of water...some of it is what is draining out of the hill, but most of it is from the rain. The foundation guys had such a happy look on their face when they arrived and saw this (especially the one who had a hole in his boot)!
They managed to work around/through the water to get the frames of the footings in place. Let's hope we have a nice inspector tomorrow and we are signed off to pour the footings and the foundation!
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Swimming Graduation
My Sea Bear graduated from swim lessons!! He is such a natural swimmer - he just needed a few pointers and he was off! His teacher would tell me every week how impressed she was with him and how good he was doing!
Just a reminder of what he used to look like...
First swimming lesson...
http://theshbs.blogspot.com/2010/03/sugar-bears-first-swim-lesson.html
GRADUATION!! Not only is he good, look how straight he can swim now!
Just a reminder of what he used to look like...
First swimming lesson...
http://theshbs.blogspot.com/2010/03/sugar-bears-first-swim-lesson.html
GRADUATION!! Not only is he good, look how straight he can swim now!
Building Calendar
Here's a calendar with links to activities going on at our new house!
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Cleared Lot
The area is almost cleared and ready for the foundation. We're going to have a HUGE house!! It's amazing how it has doubled in size since the day when we staked it off! It looks big!!
You can't see much clearing from this picture, but I wanted to take a picture from the same spot over the days to capture the progress - here's #1.
Here we are in the basement.
Firewood...
...lots and lots of firewood! Good thing we'll have a wood-burning fireplace and plenty of room for a backyard fire pit!
One of three huge rocks that were unearthed.
Chris took his new bus for the first time to meet me after work. His stop is conveniently located at the end of the driveway!
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Breaking Ground, Not Wind
Chris' video of the clearing at our lot entitled "Breaking Ground, not Wind". :)
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Where's the House Going??
Today we went out and marked off where the house is going to be located! It's so hard to imagine since it hasn't been cleared yet! It looks tiny, but I'm sure this is very deceiving since we were working around the trees and shrubs! :)
I'm standing in the garage...
The back corner is down there somewhere!
The back corner is down there somewhere!
Although he's absent from this picture, dad was more interested in talking to and feeding the horses!
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