More progress

(Poppe living room on the left, Mom's house on the right)

(Taken fom Poppe's living room, looking towards Mom's bathroom area through the opening onthe right. Observe the plumbing sticking up from the concrete)

Sheathing is going up all around the house and the breezeway between Mom's house and our soon-to-be living room are going up! Yeah, the pictures may look like it is crooked, but they are spot-on straight. I just had the camera a little crooked, as I was keeping Fulton's curious hands away from the camera!

Some people came by today to take measurements for the trusses (that's the part of the house that look like whale ribs for the roof) Delivery for those should be next week!


(View through Mom's front living room window)


And to show that we are not all work and no play, you will see that the carpenter and his son are having fun!

Walls well that ends well

The interior wall framing is DONE on Mom's house! Woo-hoo! Only a minor accident this morning - an entire interior well section came crashing down, splitting a board. After a quick grammar lesson on appropriate interjections, the repaired wall went back up, good as new and....(see title of post)

It is about lunch time and it is getting HOT, so the boys will be taking a few hours off pretty soon. Work will resume this evening!

Walls UP!

Jay is taking a week off to catch up on Mom's house. This first wall seen above was constructed and raised by 8:14am.

I took these shots of everyone getting into the action raising the first wall. Hey, someone had to take the picture! And that counts as work, right?
The second wall was constructed and raised by 10:42am.

Things got pretty hot, so Jay took a break after lunch (103 degrees with no shade - can you blame him?) and this is what the rest of the day brought us! YAY!!!

Logan, Jay's right hand gal, worked hard getting the headers in for Dad before sundown.

Here is Jay standing in the bedroom. The small square in front of him will be where the water heater will reside. Further ahead of him in the top right corner of the house is the bathroom (that large square) and walk-in closet ( from the far upper right hand corner running along that back wall to the bedroom area towards Jay), accessed through the bathroom. The bottom lefthand side will be the livingroom, slowly morphing into the dining area and kitchenette. When you hit the wall on the far right towards the bottom, you will see her "front" doorway, which you can access through the breezeway connecting our two homes.

Next step - we build the interior walls and install them on Monday!