Part 16 (August 23, 2007)

Well, with the help of John and Tom, I now have walls! It took us the better part of the last two days. mainly because our existing house only has 8 foot ceilings, and our addition has 9 foot ceilings. I had to rip off the over-hang where our addition sits. that was not easy nor was it fun. but its done of the most part. the picture from the inside is looking from the play room into the master bedroom and bath.

Part 15

OK so i need to bring you up to speed. we got the basement floor poured, then came the floor joists, and then the rest of the floor on the main level. the floor joists and flooring really didn't take all that long, and feels good to finally see it taking shape.

Part 14

Time to get rid of the over-head lines. The city requires a 30 inch deep trench dug. I did the ground level trench with a back hoe, up the hill, and on top of the hill had to be done by hand......what joy that was.... after the digging came 4 inches of "SAND" because most of the stuff that came out from where we are doing the addition was sand, and i do everything i can to save some money on it, we sifted all our sand. this consisted of making a wood frame with a wire screen on bottom that had 1/4 inch holes in it. that was placed on top of a wheelbarrow and the sand that had a TON of rocks in it got sifted into nice rock free sand. sounds easy right? no. 4 inches of sand in a 2 foot wide trench that was 150 feet long took forever! but we got it in, and the 2 inch pipe got put on top of the 4 inches of sand. the next fun part....12 inches of sand on top of the pipe.