Day 112: Valentine's Day

Today, after having a yummy French lunch, I took Mom and Bob by the house. It was nice to hear the things they noticed and liked about the house. 

Our driveway and patio steps are now complete. 

I also saw Raymond briefly who mentioned and he thought texturing would begin on Monday. I suppose the cabinets go in after that. 

Day 111: Driveway, Sidewalk and Steps

Today we were surprised to see that our driveway, sidewalk and back patio steps were poured. It was wet, freshly poured.

Can you guess what we did?

Yep.

Handprints!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also discovered the garage was full of wood for our baseboards, boxes (our cabinets!) and our interior doors.  I just wanted to rip them open and take a peek!



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The girls got a kick out of watching this guy smooth out the steps.  

 

 

 

We stayed for a while today. It was fun to watch the guys doing the concrete. Then, our new neighbor, Esther, came over. We chatted for a while. It was nice to see her. 

 

What a fun day!

 

Day 106: Walls!

Today is the start of Week 16. We have walls! The downstairs is mostly complete and the workmen are now working upstairs. It's really dusty in here now.

 

We also have the form for the stairs leading down from the back porch to the backyard. We'll have five!

 

I thought we'd get the driveway poured today as we saw the cement trucks and the boom, but they only ended up pouring a slab for the third house on Grand Junction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 105: Beginning of the Drywall

Raymond called this morning and invited me out to the house to determine placement of the back porch stairs. After showing him where I want them, he showed me where the broken truss was repaired.

 

Yesterday was the house's exterior wall insulation inspection along with the Greenzone inspection. Both passed. Yay!

 

While we were there, workmen were there installing drywall on the ceiling in the kitchen. It was pretty cool to watch. One guy was on stilts! He needed to be tall to reach the ceiling so he could screw the nails in.

 

He had a neat drill, too, that only turned the screw after he applied pressure to it on the drywall. Then it only screwed a set amount of distance so that the screws never over-screwed. This keeps all of the surface flat, no dimpling.

 

After he screwed the drywall up, he had another tool that he used. It was some sort of saw that he could poke into the space where the light casing was preinstalled. The metal edge of the casing guided the saw and it cut a perfect circle in nothing flat. It was very cool to watch.