Framing Almost Finished!

The framers are planning on being completely finished tomorrow! Everything looks so great. They've done such a good job and have been very fast, working really long hours.

We have everything we need for our roofing. We'll start laying our felt and shingles soon. The shingles are a brownish gray color. I really like them and can't wait to see them on the roof!

Here are the newest pictures of our framing progress:

Framing Coming Right Along

We took pictures of our framing progress. So much has gotten done in such a short time. It's been one week, and they're so very close to being finished. It's starting to actually look like a house. We went up and stood at the front doorways, and the view is perfect. So, when our deck is built, the view will look right out over the creek. All you can see is creek and woods. You can't see any neighbors anywhere around, and because of that huge rock bluff covered in thick woods, you can't see the road. It's a perfect spot nestled in the woods with a gorgeous view. It was hard to picture how the house would lay, and we spent a lot of time standing on that hill trying to find the perfect spot and what angle to lay the house, trying to take into consideration the elevation of the deck, loft etc., and it turned out exactly as we hoped. Very good news all around! Not much else to describe that the pictures won't show, so here they are...

Framing Started

Our framers are moving very quickly! We have a few pictures of when they started, but they've gotten a lot further than the pictures show. They've completed the majority of the first story now. We'll take more pictures and post them soon. We had left our camera behind the past few days.

Here are pictures of the floor over the basement:

Temp Pole, Electric Lines, and Water Lines

So, it has been a while since my last post...and unfortunately, it is NOT because I've been neglecting my blog. Oh how I wish that were the reason. The truth is that there's just not been much going on up there...

The rain has really held us up. We've been ready for framing for over 2 weeks now, and it just keeps raining. Our driveway had to be dry enough for the delivery trucks to make it up and by the time it would dry out, we would get another down-pour.

We do have our electric poles in now and wired up. We've got our temp pole set up. All we have to do is have it inspected and they'll turn the service on. We've also got our electric conduit down and inspected.

Our waterlines are in. All we have left on that is adding a faucet by our campfire area. We decided to put a pipe tee down there so that we can have a faucet there. It will go right up next to our second electric pole. So, we have to hook that up. Also, we have to put our waterline under the creek. We were originally told by the water company to put the pipe over the creek and build a concrete dam around it to protect it, so we did that just to find out that the "rules" have changed just this year and somehow the water company didn't know. The inspector told us that now instead of going over the creek (like every other house on our street), we have to actually cut the creek bed with a concrete saw and place the pipe under the creek. So, that's the next project. Not exactly looking forward to that one.

Alan got more gravel on that driveway, so that the delivery guys could make it up the hill easier. The bulk of the lumber has been delivered now. We've had 2 of 3 truck loads, so luckily our framers are starting tomorrow (Thursday). Thank goodness. They don't think it will take much more than a week to complete.

Luckily, after we get the framing complete, the weather won't delay us anymore. There will always be something that we can be working on inside. So, we're just looking forward to that.

I've got a few pictures of us doing the lines and the framers carrying beams up the driveway: