December 21st Update & MERRY CHRISTMAS

MERRY CHRISTMAS

By now, everyone is hopefully settling into being with family and friends over the Christmas Holidays.

I apologize for no posts over the past few weeks, but I've essentially been out of pocket traveling for work. However, there's been daily progress, but not all that noticeable. Today, was an exciting day as they poured the slab on grade following a week of laying down the utilities (water, sewer and heating coils) throughout the main floor of the house. Hitting this milestone, will allow Kevin and the crew to finish framing up the main floor on Wednesday and it's expected that they'll start installing windows possibly next Thursday or Friday.


Below are picture updates from the past couple of weeks:


On Sunday, December 9th (12 days ago), they installed polypropylene inside the house to retain the heat in order to melt snow and unthaw the ground with a propane heater and the furnace from our old house. The goal was to accomplish everything in order to make today's milestone of pouring the floor.

Roughing in the water and sewer lines at the beginning of this week:

Radiant floor tubes were laid down on Thursday, December 20th:

The first cement truck arrived this morning at 8 a.m.

Update on Sunday, December 9th

This is an update on the house project as of Sunday, December 9th. As you can see, they completed closing up the roof on Friday and hooked up the old furnace to start heating up the interior this coming week. They put up plastic sheeting over the openings on Sunday and will start warming things up Monday. Enjoy the pictures taken today - one can tell that we have about 12" of snow on the ground and the weather outside over the weekend has been very cold - close to zero!! Boy, I'm glad that I'll be heading to Tampa, FL this week for 4 days - back home on Thursday and will plan to update the website over the weekend unless Shelly can figure out how to do it.

Framing & Roofing Progress - December 6th

Well, it snowed again this morning, but here are several photos over the course of the past couple of days as they worked to get the roof on. The plan calls to finish up the roof on Friday along with moving the furnace in and they plan to polywrap the inside on Saturday with the plan to get power and heat going on Monday next week.


These are Bryan's favorites that he took while being out at the job site on Wednesday:

Here is one of the kid's bedrooms with the views:

Here's the other bedroom upstairs and the views:

View of the sitting room/area on the 2nd floor:

Roofing progress over the living area of the house:

Framing Progress - December 5th Update

The crew is moving along pretty good considering the 12" of snow that have fallen since last Saturday, December 1st. Attached are pictures of the progress since the last posting following the framing on the 1st level just a week ago. Even with the snow, they've framed the 2nd floor and have the majority of the roof trusses completed. The plans are to lay plywood for the roof on Thursday with intentions of getting the furnace fired up in the house early next week to start warming things to continue. We'll just sit back and watch the gas bill - not a typical December, but of course this is how Minnesota winters used to be 20+ years ago. Enjoy the pictures...we even have some candid photos of the crew along with Stephen getting his truck and new trailer stuck on Tuesday.


This first set of pictures is following the first snow of the season on Saturday. In addition a couple pictures of the garage/guest house following the metal roof installation and glass door installation earlier in the week.

Pictures taken on Tuesday, December 4th - as you can the 2nd floor is coming along. This is the south side of the house below.

Back side of the house - river side (north)

Below is the 2nd floor looking to the east or the west side of the house.

Our bedroom area, bathroom, mechanical room area and entry from garage.

The crew of Todd, Kevin and Stephen.

Pictures of Stephen getting stuck on Tuesday and finally getting pulled out:

Roof trusses started on Wednesday, December 5th:

Looking out to the east and south of the main living area of the house.