Up come the walls!!!

Dale and a few other carpenters spent Friday, Saturday and part of Sunday before a rain delay, putting up walls. Its really amazing to see if start to take form. I can stand in our living room and the view that we worked so hard to create is there, I am amazed at the progress!

Jasons brief notes: Made some good progress even though we could only get in 3 hours on Sunday due to rain. I like this Zip sheathing stuff – just tape up the joints and you’re done. Kept us from having to make tyvek kites on Saturday when the wind was blowing 20-30 mph all day. Floor sealer seems to be doing well so far. Bracing the walls was a lot easier than I expected also.

Pouring the concrete floors on 11.12.11

Jason hired some concrete finishers to come and work the poured concrete and they brought a machine to make it all smooth. After the concrete was finished on 11.12.11 Jason got a MUCH NEEDED day off on 11.13.11 for he and Wendy to go DUCK HUNTING! Wendy was a good girl. This is where my work day came in, I spent the afternoon out washing concrete and vaccuuming concrete to get it ready for the sealer.

Nearly ready for the concrete on the first floor!!!

Jason and Ian and a few white pants (can't remember their names) and Dale spent this last weekend getting the subfloor finished up on the first floor of the house and the edges framed in for the concrete pouring that is scheduled for this Saturday. We have been testing sealants and finishes to decide what we like for the concrete. I want to make sure that is is VERY stain resistant! :) The barn is finished except for the gutters, the fence posts go in tommorrow so that when they back fill there will not be any need to dig for them later.

We have a person contracted to do the HVAC work, and the septic field and boxes were all laid in by Niederer Trenching last week while the weather was still dry... Moving Right Along!