Dragonfly season
The guys came on Friday to work on the patio and front stoop, but they didn't pour the concrete. Mostly they just moved aggregate from...
Inside the walls
Here are two views of the wall section Tim made for me. Working our way from the outside in, in the top photo the black strip at the...
Preliminary test results are in: 0.3 ach50
The big news is that we had a preliminary blower door test done this morning. All sorts of people from Cocoon, which is doing the...
Let there be light!
View out of the window that will be next to the "kitchen table" when all is done. This window was installed today. "Let there be light!"
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...
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...