PAGE 2. Break Ground through Second Floor Deck (24Nov2010 - 31Jan2011)
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LAST UPDATED: 04/26/2011
1/30/2011 Not hampered by snow...framers keep working.
above and below: The second floor loft of my office
above: foyer as seen from family room. note the bridge above the front door between master bedroom and office loft.
Below: dining room as seen from kitchen.
1/25/2011 A little more progress. I had my oldest DRIVE ME to the site today after he got his Learner's Driving Permit.
above: view from inside garage, of the 1st bay and the pedestrian door for the garage
below: the three garage bay doors and the steel!!
above: access to basement from garage (pre-stairs). Note the ice skating rink.
above: from garage looking back to the basement access and the back access door to garage (garbage can pad outside door on right)
above: kitchen pantry
above: Kitchen wall (transom windows above cabinets, little window above prep sink and window buck for large porthole window to the right.
Family room wall with newly framed window bucks hoisted into position yesterday, by crane.
above: foreground is the sunken family room floor with foyer to right and kitchen pantry in background
above and below: Theatre. Note the dropped floor (still to be added, the middle of the three floor layers, seen are the top layer and the bottom-most layer of the floors)
Below: View of dining room, across the abyss of the lanai (yet to be filled in for a slab) from the Pool Cabana
1/24/2011 Framing almost finished on first floor and garage
above and below...the big steel for the clear-span garage
Above: The kitchen wall (transom windows above the cabinets and one little window above the sink...and further to the right, the large porthole window (in a box frame).
Above: The family room wall with the twelve window boxes before it was crane hoisted into position.
1/22/2011 First Floor walls begin
Above: The Theater's dropped front rows.
Below: The bay window in the dining room (background) and the dropped floor family room (foreground).
1/20/2011 The Lumber Drop for the first floor
The Pool. Doesn't look so big from here...but this walled in area is 56'x25' (above). The Theater floor dropped below rest of house (below)
Front Porch and Stoop (above)
1/9/2011 First Floor Deck
Another view of the Wet Room curbs (below)
View of the "chase" hole for the HVAC system, to send second floor HVAC to the attic (below)
1/6/2011 Basement floor poured (hard to see under two inches of snow), note the "curb" in the Wet Room. The Wet Room holds all the wet equipment (geothermal water furnace, hot water heaters, water manifold block) and has a drain in the floor, preventing flooding in any adjacent rooms of the basement should we have a mechanical problem with any equipment. First floor deck installation began.
1/4/2011 Basement floor being prepped for the pour.
note Mr. Palmer in his adult-sized Tonka toy moving dirt (pic above and below)
pic above: bigger tonka toy!!
12/31/2010 Steel delivered today
12/24/2010 Foundation is poured, dried, and formers removed.
12/16/2012 Formers for the walls are complete. Ready for pouring tomorrow if weather cooperates.
12/14/2010 Formers for foundation walls in place
pole barn done...waiting on doors and floor
12/10/2010 The Pole Barn almost complete. The footers finished and curing.
12/8/2010 Footers Completed.
Below: footers for the the barn are completed
12/6/2010 Foundation Dig is complete. Ready for Footers tomorrow.
12/3/2010 Foundation partially dug.
12/2/2010 Driveway scrapped and the topsoil removed from where the foundation will go.
11/30/2010 Driveway crush and run was to be laid. When the first scrape of the ground was made, it was discovered that the electric lines from the street were laid in the exact location of the driveway, so scraping had to halt while Miss Utility came to mark the cables. They, of course, took all day and no progress on the driveway was made. It is forecast to rain tomorrow, therefore the foundation dig is delayed a day...next scheduled for 2Dec. Building permit for the barn was issued today.
11/24/2010 Building Permit Issued for the primary home.