This week made up for all the lack of progress over the last month.
Day 1: Framers showed up and put up walls. Seeing the walls was fantastic.
Day 2: Even more walls. They also fixed the issue with the trusses running the wrong direction in the floor. We’ll lose a couple of inches on parts of the basement ceiling, but it isn’t too bad.
Day 3: The floor went in and we could walk out in the new space for the first time. Unfortunately, that also meant I realized we never had the architect update the drawings for the new slider doors we have and that meant we need a new slider ordered. Does anyone need a HUGE sliding door? I have one that is now literally just laying around.
Day 4: All the walls were up! Look at those crazy big windows, I love it.
Day 5: The trusses went up! It looks like a house and it only took 5 days. I keep thanking the framers profusely every day for making us a house. I think they think we are crazy, but they have no idea how frustrated we were when they showed up. You can see in the 3rd photo below the vault in the living room and dining room which we are excited about since the rest of the house is 8 foot ceilings.
There is still framing to be done inside, but this week is exactly what we needed. Everything left is dependent on more demo that needs to get done. On Monday the HVAC guys will start and I will meet with them Tuesday morning to go over some details- like the fact that we might need a second furnace? This was news to me, but I guess it was in the bid. They are also supposed to be hauling the dirt pile out on Tuesday as well which should start getting the yard cleaned up and make my chickens, goats, and dog much happier.
We were also supposed to have concrete window wells poured, but that plan was abandon because of the shoddy concrete work that has happened so far. I am a little sad about it because I liked the idea of them being very clean and easy to maintain, but it is what it is. I’m learning to pick my battles.
We also went and saw our granite slabs on Friday morning. We were able to finalize the backsplash and narrow down paint now that we have the slabs.
Here’s a good reminder of who we are doing this project for- these two crazy kids playing on a woodpile in their jammies. Well, one of them. The other refused to wear pants.
TL;DR Two men framed 80% of the house this week and turned our frowns upside down. We also visited our granite which is beautiful. And my kids only sometimes wear pants outside.