More progress!

Gas lines have now been installed!















The telephone and cable lines coming into the mechanical room.












Both fireplaces have been set.















Tiger foam!!! A spray in insulation that provides an air tight barrier. This is the one exterior wall in Jacob's room that couldn't be done in ICF. Batting insulation will be put on top of this to make sure he stays toasty!

Heating and air

The heating and air ductwork in the basement is now complete! Dwayne and Jeff had to frame around the ductwork in order for the drywall to be installed.










This is showing the ductwork in the basement bedroom below the master. You can also see the red and blue pex water lines and the radiant floor heat that was installed for the master bath floor. Warm floors on a cold winter morning- thanks, honey!!! You can also see the drywall leaning up against the window. Our drywall crew is ready and waiting to get started and we are looking forward to getting the behind the walls work done!

Electrical progress

These pictures were taken back in February. Dwayne has pulled over 3 miles of electrical wire!! (And yes, the circuits have been tested and they all work!)

A change of address!

We were fortunate enough to sell our home in November, despite the housing slump, so our address has officially changed!!! Here's a picture of our new mailbox!

















A typical dinner out for Dwayne!

A great suprise!

Dwayne has successfully hooked the main water line into the house! We were suprised at that fact alone but another great suprise was the amount of water pressure. When Dwayne turned the water on, it shot at least twenty feet across the basement!




The siding crew came back and finished up the siding this week. We are really happy with the way it has turned out and the crew was great!!!

A change of plans!

I haven't told Dwayne but I've actually decided that I no longer want a new house and prefer to stay where we are! NOT A CHANCE! (Just joking honey! Have you come to yet?) We just decided to relocate our washer and dryer so he had to move the washer/dryer hook-up. Dwayne doing the plumbing has come in very handy!!!


The septic tank is in, has been inspected (one of our only two required inspections!) and we passed so this will soon be covered up! YEAH!


The front yard ditches have been smoothed out, so for the first time we can actually kind of "see" what our front yard will be like!

Grey water

We found out that we had to run a separate line for our "grey water" or water that doesn't come from a bathroom. Dwayne had to do some re-routing but got the grey line out from the front of the house and down to the lateral lines.



I just like this view of the house and especially the rockers on the front porch! Can't wait to put them to regular use!

Septic

I was a little concerned when I got out to the house and saw this huge hole- I was wondering if Dwayne had had enough and was preparing to end it all (somewhat like his Treo that he accidently dropped off the top of the roof!) I was relieved to learn that this was only the hole for the septic tank!





No, Jonathan, we don't have huge moles down the hill- it's only the field for the lateral lines.




The 400ft of septic line that runs to the lateral lines.




Lines coming off the distribution box to the lateral lines.


The lateral lines did look pretty cool

More ditches!

Just when I thought things were getting better as far as dirt piles and ditches, I went out and found three more ditches! Right now you cannot drive up to the house unless you come in from the neighbors driveway at the bottom of the hill. I guess it always gets a little worse before it gets better! Dwayne is working on getting water and electric into the house.
This is where the main water line will come into the house.


Since Dwayne is running his own plumbing lines he decided to run an auxillary line out to the garden area.


This is the ditch where the electric lines will come into the house.

Progress Update July 24th, 2007

This week Dwayne is working on connecting the water and electric to the house. Somehow he is going to connect these pipes from the main water supply

to these pipes going into the house! (I swear I don't know how he knows to do all of this stuff!)



Close up of a light switch in the hall


View of the recessed lighting and the ceiling fan box in the great room. Don't even want to know how they got those installed!

Our back/side yard

I had the pleasure of meeting our neighbor, Mr. Bullock, yesterday. Turns out he does excavating for another neighbor, John Feshal, and he is the one responsible for this--



It was exciting to see the back/side yard flattened out and help us to visualize our back yard better! This picture was taken from the porch outside the master bedroom.

Electrical work!

We were fortunate to have a long-time friend, Stephen Mason, help out today with electrical work. Dwayne commented several times how great it was to have a third set of hands. They were able to get quite a bit done-here are can lights going up in the vaulted keeping room.



Here a couple of switch boxes

Progress Update

The outside of the house is really coming along. The siding is complete on the front and would be completely done if the guys hadn't run out. We are using pre-painted Hardi siding and ended up with quite a few pieces that had some defects from the factory. Our supplier was great about replacing them, but it's going to take about three weeks to get the new siding here. The metal roof on the kitchen is finished, but we asked the roofing crew to pull out until the siding is complete so no one will be walking on it. We are really pleased with how the outside is shaping up!

Our house is BLUE!!!!