Power!
We're making electricity as of 6/16/15. :)
Lighting, outlet, and fireplace decisions
Today we're out at the house working on the wiring and lighting diagram. The electrician is coming next week and needs to know where we...
Honed concrete floors and more updates
When our house gets built, the welcome mat will always be there for visiting family and friends ...which is almost a shame because it...
Goodbye pile of dirt
The house gets the basement slab poured tomorrow. The back-filling is completed and the mountain of dirt in the front yard is gone. ...
Back-fill, garage, and cats update
We now have a cement floor in the garage. The house has had all the foundation walls back-filled and we can now walk in the front door...
Matching appliances would be too easy
MF is beating her self up over her choice in dishwashers. The people who put letters online to say what they think of the dishwasher are...
Roof and gutter system
The house is finally starting to look like a house. The roof is on, or at least the first two layers are on. Now we have to put...
The house? Looking more like a house!
The house is looking more like a house. We have half of the floor trusses now in place on top of the exterior walls. We have the east...
Cold-weather activities
For about two weeks at the beginning of January the house had nothing done on it. The temperature was simply too low for the cement to be...
Foundation walls going up today
For our foundation walls we are using a type of high-performance super-wall known as an ICF, which stands for "insulated concrete form."...
