Foundation complete

The foundation was all parged and waterproofed and dirt was backfilled. We'll eventually put a big patio off the new addition. The crawl space was filled in with gravel and it looks like the bolts for the sill plate should be ready to go for tomorrow. Hopefully there will be some framing starting tomorrow.

No more rain... finally

The rear retaining wall for the walk out stairs is almost complete. They also tied in the new foundation wall to the walkout so it'll support the new 2 story addition. The little cutout in the 3rd picture is where our door access will be for the crawl space under the kitchen/dining room. 

Looks like the weather should be nice for the next week so they're going to start the framing and things should come along quickly over the next 2 weeks. Once the new addition on the first floor is framed the roof should be coming off and then we should really see a big change in the house!

Work continues...

The amended plans were approved and work continued today. They started extending the chimney in preparation for the new 2nd story. The bricks don't match exactly but we're going to paint them to match the siding. The new retaining wall should start going up tomorrow and hopefully they'll be able to get some work done before the rain comes.

The Way We Live

A view of the temporary wall from inside our dining room.  I don't think we'll be hosting dinner parties anytime soon...

Delayed

We've been delayed this week as we need to amend our building permit for our replacement (previously unplanned) walkout basement stairs. We're hoping to get our plans submitted Monday and hopefully they won't take long to get approved. Once that gets done Oscar should be back at it and make some big progress in the next few weeks.

Hello my name is Genny

New generator! Since Dominion Power completely sucks we got ourselves into the power business. If you're in the neighborhood and in need of electricity we might have some to sell you.

Not much going on the last 2 days

Not much going on the last couple of days. They finished the demo of the back stairs and the supplies came in for the new foundation. We had a bit of a storm yesterday. Our power was out almost 24 hours. It just came back but we already bought a new generator for the next power outage. We've lost power 4 times since we moved in back in June. Dominion Power pretty much sucks! Next time we won't miss a beat and maybe charge the neighbors for ice and TV.