Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

Another week of big progress.

Some pictures of them framing the new addition:

Some pictures from inside the new addition:

Some additional pictures of the outside of the new room. It now has walls and a roof on it:

Merry Christmas!

At lot of progress was made in the last week as you can see from the pictures below.

Adding the floor to the addition:

Starting to frame the new addition:




Pouring the cement for the basement floor:


Removing the windows in the master bedroom:

Adding the roof to the addition:

Oh the Weather Outside is Frightful

Its been just over two weeks and there has not been much visible progress. The wet and snowy weather has delayed some of the next steps in the process therefore there are no additional pictures on this post. The next steps planned include:
- Backfilling the dirt around the new basement
- Pouring the floor for the new basement
- Starting to work on the framing for the addition

We are hoping that the weather will be a little more cooperative (although probably still cold) and that some of these next steps can begin this week.

The Walls on the Basement are Up.

The blocks arrived for the basement walls on a rainy day early in the week.



A fork lift took them from the street to the back of the house. The grass has seen better days.




They started work and got quite a bit done in one day






They came back and finished it up the next day. It's really starting to look like something now.

Happy Thanksgiving

Hopefully everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. Between the weather and the holiday last week not much progress was made, but they did pour the cement. They also laid all the pipes to the sump-pump (that black thing in the top right corner of the first picture). Finally, they filled it all in with rocks.

The next picture has little boys peeking out the window (which they opened to tell me I should not be climbing on the piles of dirt in the backyard).

Digging Complete

The digging is now complete and we have approval from the township to pour the foundation. The wood molds are all in place and we are scheduled for the cement truck to arrive on Monday November 19th. Here are some pictures from the digging.

The side of the house - they put down some stones to make it easier to get the digger and dump trucks in the back yard.

The view from inside the house while the hole was being dug

Pictures of the big hole

Digging Has Begun

While we were away in Florida the patio was removed and the digging started. We returned home to a big digger in the backyard and a pretty big hole. The digging will continue this week.