House Progress: Doors and floors 9/19/2008

Another week has passed and the house continues to get closer to completion. This week the hardwood floor was installed along with closet organizers, trim, stair railing and the garage door. The interior walls, ceiling and trim should be painted late next week and all of the wood inside should be stained. Then we will be ready for cabinets, counter tops, tile and carpet.

House Progress: 9/12/2008 Stucco & Trim

The work has started on the interior trim and the interior doors have been installed. The exterior is being worked on as the soffit and fascia is being installed as I write this. The stucco and stone should be complete within the week. Things are moving quickly and it looks like the project is still on schedule.

House Progress: Street Improvements asphalt

These picures were given to me by Zach's Grandma & Grandpa. The street improvements are completed as you can see in the pictures above. The asphalt only took half a day with two full crews working on it but the prep work took a little longer than that. The house is still coming along and we hope to be living in it soon.

House Progress 9/4/2008: prepping for stucco & stone and wall texture

The house changed from being plywood on the outside to being wrapped in black and covered in chicken wire which apparently will hold the stucco and stone on the facade of the house. The walls have been textured and the street improvements are now done. We will have the street improvements inspected tomorrow and hopefully the exterior and finish work will begin on the house next week.

House Progress: Insulation and sheet rock 8/27/2008

Zach is sleeping better now that the insulation is in and the sheet rock has been completed throughout the house. Now insulation will need to be blown in on top of the sheet rock to finish insulating the house. The sheet rock passed inspection today and the contracter has started taping and doing whatever else they need to do.

We are going to start picking out the interior finish products like doorknobs, interior doors, stair rail, etc. tomorrow. The curb, gutter, sidewalk and handicap ramp have been installed and we should get asphalt soon to patch across the road and to connect the existing road to the curb and gutter.

I am not sure what order everything goes in now but things are still moving quickly.

House Progress: 4-way inspection and curb gutter and sidewalk 8/20/2008

I haven't posted anything for a few days but it isn't because progress wasn't being made on the house. We just passed the 6 week mark which was on the 18th and the plumbing, electrical, heating and air conditioning have been roughed in and the doors and windows have been installed. The deck has been built and the sidewalk is in and the curb and gutter will be completed tomorrow. The fireplace was installed today and they will begin insulating the house tomorrow. I am excited to see what the next six weeks will bring.

House Progress: Plumbing 8/9/2008

The rough plumbing has been completed on our house and all the subs are getting in and out quickly. The HVAC company has started cutting holes in the floor and they should be back next week to get the ducts ran and install the furnace.

Zach has a lot of fun seeing the progress on our house and he isn't afraid to pick up a broom and help clean up at the end of the day.

House Progress: road crossing and a few shingles

A few days have gone by since the last post and we have made more progress with the house although the progress is a little less visible. The 400 east road crossing is complete thanks to John and Lindon. The waterline trench is ready to have the waterline ran to the house and the plumbing has been started. I will post more updates tomorrow.

House Progress: we have a roof 7/31/2008

Another day has gone by and more progress has been made as the plywood was placed on the trusses. I am not sure what the next step will be but hopefully I will find out tomorrow.

House Progress: Trusses 7/30/2008

After a two day lull in the action as we waited for the trusses to be built they were finally delivered on 7/29/2008 and put on the house today.

House Progress: Framing 7/22 - 7/25

The basement and floor joists were framed in on Tuesday & Wednesday

The exterior walls were framed on Wednesday & Thursday

The interior walls were framed on Friday

After only four days since we updated the house progress it is hard to imagine that so much could be done. The framing company even worked 10+ hours on the 24th of July which is a holiday in Utah.

The Rodeo!!!

We went to the Rodeo on Tuesday night with my Family. We weren't sure how much Zach would like have to sit the whole time. But he did pretty good. He liked all the horses and the sheep. He cheered for Corbin and Trey during the mutton bustin! He would get really excited every time they would let someone out of the shoots on a bucking horse. He also loved the music and he danced to the songs. He also would clap when the audience cheered. We had a good time watching him have fun. We will have to go again next year!