Our Concrete Home

Jones Paint and Glass snuck into our house and installed the transoms and sidelight windows in our kitchen doors.  It was a happy surprise! What are you doing for Labor Day?  We will be laboring (surprise, surprise) at Our Concrete Home.  We have a lot of prep work before the sheet rock.  We'll be there Saturday and Monday if you want a tour while you can still see all the styrofoam.  Sheetrock starts Tuesday!!! 

We had  18 correction items after our four-way inspection.  If you hit 25, you are deemed not prepared and have to reschedule the inspection.  18.  Ugh.  But thanks to Brent and his never-stop-working ethic he got us through the four-way.  We officially passed the four way inspection this morning!!!!  So GOOD BYE correction notice and HELLO sheet rock!!!!

We installed the mammoth kitchen door.  I couldn't take action photos since it took all 5 of us to get it in place.  Huge shout-out to Robert and Sandra for quickly coming to the rescue!  It was fun to show you around and we appreciated your muscles! Jones Paint and Glass will be coming soon to put in the side light and transom glass.  I couldn't believe how heavy it was....but we did it! Here's a new progress shot.  We're getting closer to the time that we can cover it all up with siding and soon you won't even be able to tell that there was ever any styrofoam!  Enjoyed a beautiful sunset tonight from our front porch.  They were cutting alfalfa in the field.  Quite picturesque! 

Truss hold downs: The biggest slice is in the northwest corner.  It goes almost all the way through the first 2x4: Back deck photos: Front porch photos:  Garage beam:

It's Saturday work day at our house and all the kids helped... There was window goop removal... There was foam cutting...  There was gap filling...  There was sweeping (or better, posing for pictures)...  There was real sweeping...  There was cable repair (he did a lot of electrical touch-ups too)...  There was weed whacking and an unhappy girlie when her sunflower was mistaken for a weed...  There was filling the trailer with trash... There was talk about dirty legs and dirty clothes (we are never clean when working!)... We even hung a few doors!  Last week Brent and one of the framers got in two basement doors...  Nailing in the side porch door.  There will be a very cute dentil shelf on the side and front doors... Our cute side door.  Just needs the dentil shelf!    There was lots of prep work for the front door.  This one took a couple of hours...

 We're getting shingles even as I type!  Yippie!   We've had a couple of projects that others have worked on for us this week.  Cement, that was a big one, and the shingles.  I love those projects (like when we installed the windows) because they are relatively quick compared to everything else we're doing and they have such a huge visual impact.  It makes me feel like we are making progress. These are the steps on the side of the house.  This is the family entrance from the garage.  I love that we will have such a cute side of the house.  Here is a shot of the driveway that was poured on Saturday along with the walkway to our front porch.  We still need to figure out the pathway leading to the back.  That's why the stairs pictured above don't have a sidewalk.   We had our Four-Way inspection yesterday.  2 1/2 hours.  It was lllllloooooonnnnnnngggggg.  Every wall, every truss, every hold do...