House

Here's a shot of the basement being dug

Basement

Here's the side of the basement

Basement

If you look closely in this image you can see Cathy standing in front of that pile of dirt. Its about 200' long!

Mound of dirt

Another basement shot

Basement

Another look at the basement

Basement

They dug a ramp on one end while digging out the basement. Later they cut this ramp out.

Basement Access

Here's the back wall on the basement.

Basment Almost Done

Yet another shot

Basement

Here's the truck that dug the two wells. One is for the irrigation system and a second one was dug for the house.

Well

We had a little rain that pooled in the basement

Some rain

The walls of the basement were poured 3000 psi glass fiber with rebar.

Concrete

More shots of the basement walls

More Concrete

A shot looking into the 'walk out' end of the basement

Basement Walls

You can see where the walls end and the basement leaves the ground.

Walkout

Supplies to start building out some of the brick siding.

Supplies

These blocks will be used to frame out some of the space around the garages.

Blocks

 

The basement floor was covered in gravel and the a vapor barrier applied

Gravel

Concrete floor was then poured into the basement

Floor

Here's the house almost dried in. This is a front view. Two garages on the right with a portico between them.

Front View

Here's another view

Another Front View

And another. I took this shot from the far side of the front yard. They house is about 180' long.

Yet another front view

Another Front.

The torrent has a neat 'swood' edge (meaning its curved.)

Tourrent

Another view of the tourrent

And another

Here's the walk out end of the basement. There's a 7' garage door into the basement so that I can get my machine shop supplies and tools into the front half of the basement. The rear half will be finished.

Walk out end

The shingles are now mostly on the roof

Roofing work

Here's a shot of the 'baby' garage that is located on the far east side of the house. They had to bust off the old brick because it ways placed a bit to close to the house and needed more 'air gap'.

Starting the brick

At this point they are about half way done brick work on the baby garage. The weather is very cold and there's some local showers so the work is going very slowly.

Progress

The brick is about done on the baby garage.

Brick on the baby garage

The brick on the main garage.

Starting main garage

More brick shots

Main garage again

The baby garage is now fully bricked

Baby done

Here's a shot of the insulation over the grate room fire place. Note the backing behind the fire place flue.

Insulation over fire place

Insulation going down to the basement.

Insulation at the staris

Insulation within the dinning room.

Insulation in the dining room

The insulation at the entrance way is several stories high.

Insulation in the entrance

More brick work on the main garage.

Brick in progress

Here's the cone that will go on the top of the turret.

Turret cone

Its starting to snow and that's making doing the brick work harder.

Snowing

They started bricking the walk out end of the house

Walk out end

Here's a shot of the guys making progress on the walkout end of the house.

Making progress

They finished the first floor (basement level) of the walk out end brick.

First floor done

Finally, they started sheet rock. Here's a shot looking at the kitchen end bathroom as the first pieces start to go in.

Sheet rock

They did the sheet rock starting at the top and working their way down. Here's a look at the great room about half done.

Working their way down

Here's a look at the master bedroom tray ceiling

Master tray

Here's a shot at the great room's bank of windows.

Windows

Here's a shot of the fireplace in the kitchen. Still need to add the stone to the face.

Kitchen fireplace

Here's a shot of the first floor walkway that leads to the master bedroom.

Walkway

Here's a shot of the entrance way. Looks rather star wars-ish with all the angles and such.

Entrance

Here's another shot looking from the great room to the entrance way.

Entrance again

They are working at bending the sheet rock that will be used beneath the curved stairs.

Curved stairs

Here's a look back into the dining room.

Dining room

The brick is now all done. Next step for the exterior is the hardi plank, stone and stucco.

Front

Here's a shot of the garage's with the brick on them.

Garage

Here's another shot of the bricks.

More brick shots

Here's a shot of the bricks on the walkout end. The rest of the end wall is hardi plank.

Walkout end done

They started building the wings for the front porch. They are done in brick and then will later be coated with stone.

Starting front porch

Here's a shot with the porch. I moved the dirt pile that was in front of the porch and cleared the ground a bit.

Front with porch

I moved the dirt piles in front of the garages.

Garages after moving the dirt

They started taping the sheet rock.

Tape and mud

Looks like they are making good progress on taping.

More taping

There's a lot of taping to do. They are working on the second coat here. Probably a half week or more left to do. Hopefully the weather will hold out and they can finish it quickly.

And more taping

The Amesh arrived and started installing the stairs. Here Bob is installing the rear set of steps.

Rear stairs

These guys had to cut various parts to fit on site. Very time consuming work.

Rear stairs

You can now see the iron railing on the overhead walk way.

Walk way

The curved stairs are now going in. This is a view from the top (walk way).

Top of curve stairs

Another view showing the rialing

Top railing

Here's a shot from the walkway of the rails that are on the front side.

Front rails

Here's a shot from the top of the rear stairs.

Rear stairs

Here's a shot of the walkway from the great room.

Great room side

The curved stairs are just about in. They will need to finish up with drywall on the studs.

Curved stairs

The cabinets have arrived. There's a garage full of them.

Cabinets

Another shot of the front stairs.

Front stairs again

The hardi plank siding is going on. This is a view of the garage area.

Siding

A view of the 'baby' garage siding.

More siding

Both of the garage's now have siding.

Garage rear

The rear of the house now has siding.

Rear of house

Another shot of the guys putting the siding on.

Rear

The cabinets are going into the kitchen.

Kitchen

Another view of the kitchen cabinets going in.

Kitchen 2

They finished up the siding at the 'walk out' end of the house where it meets up with the brick.

Siding done.