Framing continues

The weather has been great--thankfully--so the framing is going smoothly. The builder is trying to get the house "under roof" before it gets too cold and snowfall becomes an issue. Below are a few pictures showing recent progress (as of 10/27) on framing. 

 Facing the Front Door

South End of the "Great Room" from Outside

Looking to the South End of the Great Room from the Inside

We were a bit dismayed to learn that the framing crew is working our house on Monday to Wednesday and another house on Thursday and Friday. It seems like both houses end up being framed later than simply finishing one and then moving to the next. Oh well, such is the reality of the construction business when the demand for construction services is high.

Some exterior walls are framed

We've had almost two full weeks of framing and the house is taking shape. The pictures tell the story.

View from street

Future dining room and kitchen areas

Back yard

Future covered patio

The windows are larger than we imagined from the plans. The walls are tall (10' to 14') and the windows didn't look that big as drawn on the plans. But, now that some of the window openings are roughed in, we are getting a better sense of their actual size.

Framing will stop next week while we wait for roof trusses to be delivered. I'll add another post when the roof is mostly framed.

Framing has begun!

It has been over one month since my last blog post. During the month a lot has happened, but there was not much to look at. The major activities of the last month were laying the drain piping around the exterior of the house, waterproofing the foundation, installing precautionary radon mitigation piping on the inside of the foundation, installing the plumbing piping in the basement floor, pouring the basement floor, and backfilling the foundation.

With all of the above accomplished, the framing began this week. As you can see from the pictures below, the house is beginning to take shape.

From the garage looking into the house

Various framing materials

The sewer line being dug in (I have a new appreciation for the excavation sub)

The view from a future guest room window (look closely for elk in the background). The large pile of dirt is temporary...the view of Bergen Peak in the background is not!

A view of the primary steel beam from the front corner of the basement. 

The framers tell us they will first build the exterior shell of the house and then turn to the interior framing. Thus, the exterior of the home should take shape fairly quickly. I'll post more pictures as the framing continues.