Building is a Breeze

The breezeway is built!

Looking straight through from our livingroom doorway, through the breezeway and into Mom's doorway leading into her house.

Ryan framing the back breezeway wall.

Breezeway enclosed with the sheathing. Picture taken from our soon-to-be livingroom.

Front view of the house. the cut out in the center of the picture will eventually be the front door, which leads into the breezeway. Enter and turn left for Mom's house and turn right for our's.

The weeds will be replaced by wood decking and it will all look much better soon! More progress coming this week. There is rain in the forecast but the temperatures will be in the high 80s to low 90s.

Next steps will be doors and electrical work.

Major case of the shingles

(Ry the roofer guy)

( Happy father and son team)

Above and below are some more pics of the few days before shingle day.

(Standing just outside the diningroom between the 2 houses, looking up at the roof going in)

(Standing in our livingroom looking through the breezeway, into Mom's dining/livingroom)

And below is the result of yesterday's work. Ryan and his friend Colton did an EXCELLENT job installing an entire side of roof shingles (See the right side of the roof). Thanks guys!

This is the other side of the roof for the house and breezeway with just the tar paper lining.

See the window installed there to the right of the ladders? That is the dining room window! The ladders are blocking the huge livingroom window opening. We hope to finish the roof and get all windows and doors installed so the electrician can come in and wire it up. Dare I say that list of "chores" will be done by this weekend?

Stay tuned!

Raising the roof!

The weather is great today, and Eddie, Jay's construction manager at work, came down to build a house on his day off. What a guy! Thank you Eddie!

This is the truck delivering the trusses the other day.

And these are the guys hard at work!

Ta-Da! Trusses up!

Our computer no longer wants to connect to the internet, so posts will bea little sporatic (so what's new?) but rest assured, we will still keep you posted with lots of pics!

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!

Work begins again!

After about 6 weeks of drenching rains, we were finally able to pour the concrete!

It looks so much better, now that the crusher dust is covered! I believe the next step is framing - then the pictures will really get exciting! We'll keep you posted...