This week we solved a couple of mysteries while progress on our new home continued at a healthy pace.
The concrete ground-level floor was finally poured on Monday. It had been scheduled for last week, and it turns out this was delayed due to a small debate and a mix-up in communications between builder, inspector, and the city's building department. Everything turned out to everyone's satisfaction and we were cleared to proceed last Friday.
After the pour, the crew had to do some trimming in the area of the elevator pit, which you can see in the foreground below. The sunken area allows the base of the elevator car to drop to floor level at rest.
Most impressive this week, the time-lapse camera we had written off as lost in the rubble was found by the construction crew. The camera, snapped off its mount by an earth-moving Bobcat last week, had fallen to the ground in a position that continued to record our construction progress, albeit from a new vantage point!
Even more incredibly, the camera just happened to snap a photo as these two gentlemen picked it up during the rescue process (a photo is taken only every 15 minutes)! We're not sure who they are, but after taking this unintended selfie they put the camera in our permit box for safe keeping, and we recorded another two days of the inside of a box before recovery!
Bonnie has kept busy working with our designer on tile selection and continuing the difficult work to find the right combination of lighting and plumbing fixtures and cabinet layouts. Hopefully, we'll be able to show you some of these in the next couple weeks, but all-in-all we can say we're seeing light at the end of the tunnel.
We also received the majority of our exterior doors this week, and work continued on the exterior with the trimming of porches, soffits, and fascias. The crew is planning to work this weekend, and now that we have some doors and a ground floor they can resume work on siding, and building out the permanent staircases, both inside and out.
Work on the mechanical rough-ins continued in each area as we make minor adjustments here and there and start to visualize the end results, and resolve those inevitable conflicts over precious real estate in the ceiling, wall and floor cavities!
We hope you enjoyed this update as much as we enjoyed creating it!
Ron & Bonnie
The concrete ground-level floor was finally poured on Monday. It had been scheduled for last week, and it turns out this was delayed due to a small debate and a mix-up in communications between builder, inspector, and the city's building department. Everything turned out to everyone's satisfaction and we were cleared to proceed last Friday.
After the pour, the crew had to do some trimming in the area of the elevator pit, which you can see in the foreground below. The sunken area allows the base of the elevator car to drop to floor level at rest.
Most impressive this week, the time-lapse camera we had written off as lost in the rubble was found by the construction crew. The camera, snapped off its mount by an earth-moving Bobcat last week, had fallen to the ground in a position that continued to record our construction progress, albeit from a new vantage point!
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| Ground-level snapshots from our fallen time-lapse camera that continued capturing the action for two days before being rescued. |
Even more incredibly, the camera just happened to snap a photo as these two gentlemen picked it up during the rescue process (a photo is taken only every 15 minutes)! We're not sure who they are, but after taking this unintended selfie they put the camera in our permit box for safe keeping, and we recorded another two days of the inside of a box before recovery!
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| Thanks, guys! |
Bonnie has kept busy working with our designer on tile selection and continuing the difficult work to find the right combination of lighting and plumbing fixtures and cabinet layouts. Hopefully, we'll be able to show you some of these in the next couple weeks, but all-in-all we can say we're seeing light at the end of the tunnel.
We also received the majority of our exterior doors this week, and work continued on the exterior with the trimming of porches, soffits, and fascias. The crew is planning to work this weekend, and now that we have some doors and a ground floor they can resume work on siding, and building out the permanent staircases, both inside and out.
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Work on the mechanical rough-ins continued in each area as we make minor adjustments here and there and start to visualize the end results, and resolve those inevitable conflicts over precious real estate in the ceiling, wall and floor cavities!
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| Our generously sized attic is being overtaken by this HVAC monster serving the upper floor. A similar web of gigantic ducts is woven through the truss floor system that separates the main and upper living areas. |
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| It's getting crowded in here! |
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| One last check of the view from Guest Bedroom #1 through the 3/4 glass door that leads to the upper front porch |
We hope you enjoyed this update as much as we enjoyed creating it!
Ron & Bonnie
That picture of the construction guys is awesome :) We can't wait to see it in person today!
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