Yesterday, as expected, the crew began raising the roof of our house. Early in the morning, there was a crain on site to begin placing the trusses on the walls. By 10am (the first picture below), the main section of the house looked to be in place. By the time that I made it to … Continue reading
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Standing the walls
The crew began standing the walls today for the house. After lunch, when I arrived at the site, I was surprised to find them working on the third side of the house. They are still working on the front of the house, but I suspect that they will move on to interior walls tomorrow. What … Continue reading
Slab poured, foundation complete — now time for some walls!
To my delight, I drove out to the new homesite and found that the slab has been poured for the house and both porches. When I got out to the site, the crew was busy taking down the edges of the porches and setting everything up to cure. I am so excited that everything is … Continue reading
Preparing for the slab
This week, everything is heading towards the goal of pouring the concrete slab for our house on Wednesday morning. Yesterday, the crew was on site laying down plastic vapor barrier between the fill sand and where the concrete will lay. The plumbing that we had seen over the weekend was complete and all additional plumbing … Continue reading
Foundation, fill and plumbing
It has been a very busy week out on our property. At the end of last week, our foundation was nearly complete and over the weekend, Harry (the builder) began putting fill into the block foundation. On Monday, several more loads of sandy fill were loaded into the foundation and everything was brought up to … Continue reading
Building has begun
It has been a few weeks since I have posted an update, but during that time, we have had a lot of activity on our land. Last week, the builder laid out all the sidewall strings and began digging the footings for the house. Those were dug and then poured in about a day. To … Continue reading
Building permit in progress
This week, the builder is working on permitting. We are hoping to have a building permit within the next two weeks and hoping that work will begin shortly after that. Jen and I have signed off on the plans, specs and construction agreement and returned those to Sterling Homes along with the first payment. We … Continue reading
Loan closed; money released; building getting ready to start
We spent the afternoon today closing on our construction loan. With the financing all locked down, we now have a line of credit available to us from Conway National Bank to use for the building process. We will begin our draw process next week once everything has been booked. The first draw will cover foundation … Continue reading
How our house was designed…
** The picture above was our very first rough draft of the house plan… it changed a lot since. I figured that today was a great time to tell the story of how our house plans came together. This has been a long term project. The drawing above was doodled out on my friend Jamie’s … Continue reading
Trees are coming down, things finally moving along
Yesterday was an exciting day. The first visible activity of our build has begun on the land and the builder is getting the site ready for a house to go in. The trees came down quickly yesterday and the lot looks completely different today. Here are some photos of the progress… A BIG ole THANK … Continue reading
