Crawl space

Yesterday Scott poured the cement for our crawl space. The area framed in will be a deeper than the rest of the crawl space (approximately 6 foot). This will be where we put the furnace, hot water heater, etc. Typically without a basement you have a dirt 4 ft. crawl space under your house. We decided to include an area that will be a little deeper for storage and utility units. This is holding things up a little, but will be worth it when changing furnace filters. Today Scott is getting the forms ready for the foundation, so next week we should be pouring the forms for the foundation and after that the floor will go on. I have been told that it goes fast once he starts framing.

Cement Slab for Eric's Garage

Last week the cement for Eric's garage was poured. We are waiting for the go ahead to set the garage on top. It has to cure for a certain amount of time. It should be soon.

Eric's Garage

We bought 3 lots on the southwest of town. The previous owners tore down the existing house, but left the garage. Eric decided he wanted to keep the garage, but he would move it and flip it around so the doors face the alley. It has been quite the process. Cleaning the garage out and tearing off the shed that was attached. Our new neighbor helped lift the garage and set on a trailer to move it. It is sitting on the trailer as we speak and we are waiting on the cement slab to be poured. This will become very handy for storing all our outside belongings that until now have sat out in the sun and snow.

Broke ground

On September 8, 2007 we broke ground for our new house. It is a family affair. My younger brother, Scott will be building our house. He is not licensed to run a backhoe, but never fear my Step-dad and older brother are. My older brother Chad ran the backhoe and dug the hole where our house will be. We are not going to have a basement, but we will have a crawlspace for the house to sit on. The entire process took 11 hours, which I am told is quite fast. Eric and Scott helped speed the process up by moving dirt out of Chad's way with a tractor and bobcat. The mom's and Grandma were down the street at Scott's house hosting a garage sale, so the kids had a fun going back and forth.