• July 28-Aug 2 – What a busy week!

    July 28-Aug 2 – What a busy week!

    This week was more framing, steel ring and septic drainfield installation. The framing continued all week. Monday the floor joists and subflooring for the great room was installed. (You’ll see a photo of me sitting on the great room floor with Koko and Kuma, our Japanese Spitz pups) The floor joists and subflooring for the…

  • July 21-26 Framing starts!

    July 21-26 Framing starts!

    Now that the slabs are poured, this week was busy with stones, finish grading and delivery of lumber, lumber and more lumber.  The stone steps that go from the front of the house underneath the kitchen bridge and down to the level below were completed.  By midweek, the concrete columns had dried and the framing…

  • July 14-19 Slabs are complete!

    July 14-19 Slabs are complete!

    This week started with Janes laying the radiant heat in the slabs for the primary bedroom suite and the two lower guest suites. You’ll see them as bright red tubes. (Thank you Janes!) Then, the concrete was poured for the foundation of the footings for the support columns to hold up the deck off of…

  • July 7 – 12 Slab Prep – Heart Rock

    July 7 – 12 Slab Prep – Heart Rock

    This week was busy with the completion of the prep for the pouring of the slabs in the primary suite, in the two lower suites and in the garage. It was also a week of rocks and dirt. The drainage pipes around the perimeter of the foundation were laid and the drainfield was completed.  The…

  • June 30 – July 5 (4th of July week)

    June 30 – July 5 (4th of July week)

    This was a short week as many of our subs took off early for the 4th of July holiday weekend. We were lucky enough to get the plumbing drainage laid out in the primary suite slab and in the slab for the two guest suites on the lower level. The underslab plumbing was inspected and…

  • June 23-28 – Oh Deer & Bobcat

    June 23-28 – Oh Deer & Bobcat

    I started this week early on Sunday morning at the property and was greeted by a beautiful deer and a bobcat! Check out the photos!  Early Monday morning, we poured another 87 yards of concrete to fill the turret tower (27’ center pole) and the walls throughout the house.  After the concrete dried for a…

  • June 16 -21 Rebar & Wall Forms

    June 16 -21 Rebar & Wall Forms

    This week Javier, Filimon and the guys from JB Concrete finished forming the walls for the concrete to be poured on the 23rd (next Monday). Take notice of the tall “pole”. That will be the “tree” wrapped in bark which will serve as the center of the spiral staircase leaving up to the top of…

  • June 9 – 14 Pouring Concrete

    June 9 – 14 Pouring Concrete

    It’s always exciting to see the concrete being poured! This week, the footings were poured. JB Concrete did an incredible job with this house- thank you guys! As you can see from the photos, we poured the concrete into the footing forms at the beginning of the week, then the guys started to frame the…

  • June 2 – 7 Foundation Forms

    June 2 – 7 Foundation Forms

    This week the house started to take shape- literally! Thanks to Javier and Filimon from JB Concrete and their incredible team for all of your help. These guys turned a bunch of dirt into the beginning of a home. This week was spent laying out the forms, then placing the rebar inside the forms to…

  • May 26 – June 1 Site Prep

    May 26 – June 1 Site Prep

    Now that the septic tank has been installed, we can move forward with the foundation. This week we focused on final site prep and relocation of dirt (piled on the property), to allow the survey to be completed, which marks the perimeter walls of the house. Thank you to Eastside Surveying! Now that the dirt…