Adventures in Home Building

This just about does it for the interior walls. The wife and I finshed the interior walls by building the walls for the office, powder room,...

I know that we have some family and friends checking out this blog, but I am curious who else is out there. I put a sitemeter counter up an...

These pics show the clerestory windows from the inside. (Those openings are actually for 2 windows each). The three on the right are high ...

They put down (up?) the second floor deck on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday, they stood up all of the second floor walls. The headers fo...

A friend from work came over Satuday. He helped me with the two main load bearing walls. It took him, my wife, and I to raise the big one. T...

(Wow!) Now we can really get an idea of how the great-room is going to look. The tall windowless wall on the right in the interior shot wil...

The picture from the previous post showed a completed floor deck on 8/2, here is what was done by 2pm that same day. The panels ARE structur...

I wanted to throw this quick one in here to show that the floor deck was done. The picture you see here was taken from a vantage point that ...

They started by installing the SIP rim on 3 sides. It straddles a 2x4 that is glued and nailed to the sill plate. Nails are then driven thro...

These are the two main load carrying beams in the basement. The lumber yard sent the wrong length steel columns so the beams are on temp s...

We should wrapup bacfilling/rough grading today. It has taken a bit longer than expected for a couple of reasons. Primarily, there has been ...

How much (many?) concrete block can a husband and wife lay in 2 days? This much. . . not bad for a couple of DIY'ers. We were hoping for...

Sorry - this post is a couple of days late. The forms actually came off on Monday. The only forms that were pulled on Saturday were the ones...

We saw this beautiful site when we came home from work! (Had to climb up on the wall for some of these pics) The little kickout on the one w...

Thanks Guys!

The mason had mentioned to me that on a similar job he'd done before it helped to have a chute to drag along the top of the forms. The k...

There was a minor blow out along the North garage wall. Someone either missed one of the wedges in the tie or something knocked it loose. Th...

They started in a corner near the garage - keeping the height of the concrete balanced on both sides. After that, they moved to the garage ...

Here we go - Putzmeister Telebelt in place at about 6am