House Construction
March 30 - July 3, 2008
The house is finally under construction after months of planning and waiting.
March 30 - Removing the peeled logs from the lot.
April 11 - Starting to break rock after removing the stumps.
April 15 - More rock breaking. Excavation took 2 weeks.
April 15 - Some of the rock removed from the site. Lots more to come.
April 15 - The start of the rock retaining wall for the back yard.
April 17 - The large retaining wall complete
April 18 - Rock wall back-filled
April 21 - Removing the excess rock off-site
May 31 - Permits finally issued and site prep for foundation is done.There was a 5 weeks wait since excavation was finished.
Most of this was because of structural engineering delays.
June 3 - Footings completed after just 2 days
June 3 - Pouring footings
June 5 - Insulated Concrete Forms installed
May 31 - Starting the lower rock wall. No room for a machine.
June 7 - I rented a Bobcat to move fill for the lower rock wall. Samuel had fun too.
June 12 - Picking up the water tanks in Delta
June 13 - Foundation poured and stripping forms begun
June 19 - Backfilling underway
June 26 - Crawl space skim coat being poured
July 2 - Framing begun
July 3 - We have a 1st floor
posted by Karen at
10:02 p.m.
5 Comments:
Yippee! The first floor looks fabulous!
1:20 p.m.
Wow - how exciting is that?!! I'm jealous!
1:14 p.m.
yay!! nice to see all the progress!
2:10 p.m.
Isn't it great to see things go up and you always wish it could go faster. Looks like you'll have a great view.
4:13 p.m.
Hi Karen! Long time no talk! Sorry about that! I'm trying to make more of an effort at getting on the computer! Where did you guys buy? Still in Nanaimo, right? How the thesis coming along? Is Ryan working at the hospital there still? When are you guys moving out of your parents' place? Ok...lots of questions, sorry!
10:01 p.m.
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