No Pic's, but More Bricks!

A very quick update without a photo (mainly because it's not exciting enough to take a picture), but another load of bricks were delivered today. Previously before the slab was even poured they delivered about 4 palates of bricks and today (early this morning) another 7-8 palates were delivered. Not terribly interesting, but it is progress and the bricks weren't there yesterday, so that's good to see. Could it mean that the house wrap and brick work is not far off??? We'll see!

Plumbing...DONE!

Our site supervisor rocks.

The other half went by the house this afternoon on her daily walk. To her (and my) excitement, the plumbing guys were there doing the plumbing. She had a short chat with one of the guys and he said that our Site Supervisor (who shall be known on this blog as "Big K"), was very good and very on top of things and given our experience so far, we would have to agree. He also said that his brother in-law would be doing the brick work and that he's really good at his trade and that we're lucky to have him because some jobs can be pretty shabby. We were excited to hear that of course and now our brickie has a reputation to live up to! Plumber guy thought brick work would start (most likely) mid-next week, which would be great if the house will then be wrapped by the end of this week. Stay tuned for more updates, here's the (not very exciting) plumbing work!

Framing Done!

Well, in an earlier post, we had been told by our building company (Henley) that framing would begin early in the week and be completed by the end of the week and sure enough, come Friday morning, the finishing touches were put on the frame and it's now done! Here are a couple of pic's of the finished frame. Now we'll wait to see if the house will sit for a week before the next scheduled work is due to begin, or if we will have something happen!

More Progress

These guys are awesome. In 3 days we have gone from a slab to the pic's below. When this wraps up (supposedly by early next week), but at the rate these guys are going, it's likely the frame stage will be done tomorrow, we move to the house being wrapped up in preparation for being bricked and the rough-in for the plumbing will be done. After that it will be the roof, then bricking and then....well we'll just have to wait and see. Check out the progress. The date is off by one, so this is Thursday, August 23rd's work.

Ground Floor Yesterday, 2nd Floor Today!

Woohoo, we keep on ticking along and these guys are doing a great job so far! They have framed all of the walls (walk-in robes, bathrooms, etc.) for both the 1st and 2nd floors and have installed the windows, door frames and the large sliding door to the Alfresco already! Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings. I would think we'll start seeing the frame of the roof going up soon as well as the rest of the windows and door frames installed. Check out today's progress!

They've Framed Us...

...well, the first floor anyway. Man, these guys work quickly! Had to go see the progress for myself tonight and couldn't help taking pictures for the blog.

Floor Plan & Wood, Wood, Wood!

Day one of the 'Frame Stage' is in the books and what has happened you ask? Well, we saw a large amount of wood, beams and more wood delivered to the site, cut, shaped etc. and the ground floor has a framed 'floor plan' if you will. Check it out...

Cleaned Up & Ready for Framing

Between the slab being poured and the beginning of the Frame Stage, the concrete guys came by and cleaned up the lot. Looks fantastic! The gravel has been delivered so dirt and mud is not dragged out into the street and we are ready to be framed!

Well, SLAB me silly!

WE HAVE A SLAB! One day off of the originally scheduled date (not too shabby) and we also had our weekly update call today to inform us of what is going on with the site. Without exact dates, we have been told that the framing of the house will begin "early next week" and "will be completed by late next week." We were floored by that statement! I know building materials have been ordered and the frame is pre-cut, but wow! That's phenomenal. Next stages after that will be Brick and then roof, so the exterior and general build of the house will happen very fast, which is great. We look forward to snapping progress shots daily and updating you ALL on the changes. For now, check out the solid foundation!

Ready to pour it on!

6 dudes onsite today doing a BUNCH of work to prep for the pouring of the slab, which was scheduled to be today, but looks like it will be tomorrow. The site looks terrific, has been professionally prepped (see pic's below) and really gets exciting from here on out. Hopefully tomorrow we'll have pictures of the slab for your viewing pleasure and will have a start date for the frame stage!

Getting closer...

Well, a little bit more happened today, but it's hard to tell what by the pictures. Essentially, they carted away the tons of dirt they had excavated from the lot and was piled up in front of the lot. They smoothed out the front a bit more and delivered the ReBar that is due to be put in for the pour that is supposed to happend tomorrow! You can see the Rebar, but it will be interesting to see if they only get the land prepped to for the pour tomorrow or if they actually end up pouring the slab, so stay tuned!

Almost ready for the pour...

The boys were at it all day on Saturday (they probably packed it up at around 5:00 PM), and have done a great job getting the foundation cuts ready for the pour of the stiffening beams and the slab. It will be interesting to see if we make the pour on the scheduled date (Tuesday August 14). They were off to day (as I thought they would be), and will probably return tomorrow to finish off the job (hopefully) and then the pour will hopefully happen Tuesday. We'll keep ya posted as always, but here's Saturday's work. Quite a big difference between Friday & Saturday!

Foundation Preparation

On Friday (August 10th) the work began to prepare the foundation for the eventual pouring of the slab. Our site is due to have the foundation poured on Tuesday and given that there are several 'squares' yet to be cut (the 'squares are where the supporting foundation, or support beams are to be poured), I don't see how they are going to finish before Tuesday. Of course all of this is 'weather permitting' but I'd say there was maybe less than 1/3 of the work completed yesterday and the weather was fine. Unless they are on site today and tomorrow (weather has been fine from early this morning until about now), I just don't see the likelihood of the site being finished off on Monday and ready for pour on Tuesday. It's due to rain today (sprinkling now) and then showers tomorrow and Monday, so this will be interesting to see how it turns out. As always, we'll check the site this weekend and report back if there have been any changes. Otherwise, we'll wait and see! Pictures of the progress below, including the sand that was delivered presumably for the concrete.