Sweet, Sweet Concrete

We finally have all the concrete work finished this week.  Keith had the garage poured, and the front porch, the side retaining wall and rear patio.  With that finished, Danny is freed up to build the garage and later, the front porch.  Also, the patio in the back will be the support for the screened back porch on the main level.  It will have a door from the kitchen and steps leading down the side toward the garage.

Today I stopped by and saw the exterior walls had been covered with sheathing.  With the walls covered it's easier to see how some of the rooms will look.  I walked up the steps (that lead nowhere) and took these pics before any of the upper level has been started.

Here's the master bedroom.

The kitchen.

The garage.

We ordered our windows this week.

I expect the floor joists to be started in the next couple of days.  

We'll see the house get taller and taller next week.

Continuing Concrete

Work resumed this week with gravel backfill against the foundation walls and the footing for the garage and front porch poured.  We'll next have the short foundation walls for the garage and porch done and then the garage and basement floors poured.  There are a lot of steps to having a concrete foundation and basement.

Our framer, Danny, will start soon after enough concrete work is done, hopefully sometime next week.  I'll be getting the temporary electrical pole put in and accessible soon also.  Today after work I'll be out cutting up more of the four oak trees that were pushed down.