Friday, May 31, 2013

More plumbing...and Stairs in the mine shaft!!!

Plumbing continues throughout the house...

 Checking out the basement plumbing



 And oh my, stairs!!!  They went in fast today
 The upper stairway with the windows--came out real nice. 
 Stairs are wide and nice big landings--should be great for flow and moving furniture
 Master bath area plumbing--sink drains and vents

 Upstairs 2nd bath sink drain and vent
 Now we can all go up and down with out climbing ladders and crawling in windows!


 Basement area--the tech stuff will go on the left by the blue ladder and Maddie will have a play house under neath. 
 Basement has these pipes which is where the basement bathroom will be. 

 More radiant floor heat pipe ready to install


Complex maze of sink and toilet drains...

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Plumbing Starts!


 Len with AC plumbing came onsite today with his crew and started to drill holes for the plumbing
 Better view of the fireplace here
 Powder room toilet ring goes in
 laundry area gets some drains and supplies
 Basement is getting some new walls to start framing in the mine shaft as we like to call it--stairwell.
 mechanical area gets some framing too
 We had slab poured in the crawl space so we can have nice storage area without dirt.  Looks real nice. 
 The mine shaft! 
 Master bath sink area gets holes for plumbing pipes
 Master Toilet floor ring
 2nd bath upstairs also starts up. 

 Happy to see where we are at!
 More crawl space with slab

 Maddie and Amy come to visit me all dressed up! 
 Nice to see the plumbing pipe in the garage--lots of radiant piping there too for the bathrooms
Look, a real garage!  Yea!!

Monday, May 27, 2013

Slab finish product and Fireplace/chimney starts



 Walking through walls! 
 We roped off the garage doors to keep the curious public out from marking up the new concrete.

 Porch is coming out nice with the stain

 Stress fracture lines are now drawn into the basement slab
 Garage slab has the same
 Framing in the fireplace in the family room
 Better look of the front porch stained


 Outside the framers left a spot to build out the chimney
 Lights in the basement!


 Chimney is boxed out and ready for pipe when the fireplace is actually installed
 Got an fork lift to reach the higher parts of the chimney to frame and side
 Heli pointing at something...and enjoying the new front slab for the deck stairs