Showing posts with label Week 11. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Week 11. Show all posts

Friday, March 26, 2010

I'm not sure how to count walls

They either built three small walls or one wall that has three parts today. This wall (these walls) form one side of one of our new garages.
The drain pipe from the kitchen (the black pipe), the hot water pipe (the red pipe), and the cold water pipe (the blue pipe -- I like color coded water pipes) are over the new wall. The hot and cold water pipes are flexible and may be able to be moved out of the way, but the drain pipe will need to be disconnected to lower the house onto the walls.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

The first of the interior walls

It was raining today so they built some interior walls.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

I like walls

Wednesday they put up three more walls. This is the wall they started Tuesday. I notice our new neighbor has a boat.
These are the two walls they skipped on Tuesday. One of the walls has a couple of windows in it. We put windows in our walk space so we wouldn't need to use artificial light all the time.
They added a lot of bracing to the walls they skipped Tuesday. They couldn't build the walls as solidly as they wanted with the beams in the way.
We now have walls on the south, the east and the north of the house. We are missing the walls on the west side (front) of the house, and all the interior walls and beams. We also need the concrete blocks under our fireplace.
There is another house in our neighborhood that is going to be lifted soon.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Another day, another wall

They added the the wall under the east side of the dining area Tuesday. This wall also has a window.
They skipped the next two walls. The one under the north side of the dining area and the one under a bathroom and guest bedroom. I don't know if it is because the plumbing goes through those walls or because there isn't much room to lay the wall out on the ground.
They have the wall that goes under the guest bedroom and master bedroom almost complete.
We are still using space heaters and the oven to heat our house. You can see why we can't use our forced air natural gas furnace. There are two beams under where the duct work would start under our furnace.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Even more walls

We added two more walls today. They are also doing work under the house before they build the walls. This wall is under the back of our family room. It has a window so we can get some natural light in our walk space.
The other wall they built was on the north side of the family room. It has a window and a door. You can also see our back door which we are not currently using.
They are plugging one of their extension chords in our laundry room because that circuit has a higher capacity.