Walled In

Today most of the main floor exterior walls were finished. We'll need to have a couple of revisions done to get the double fireplace inbetween the library and the living room, and access to the room
beneath the back stairs. Beyond that everything's looking great! Not pictured, but finished was the compaction of the gravel in the garage. We're hoping to get the steel beams in the garage area soon
and the rest of those walls up.

Up on Main

Today we got to see some progress on the main floor. The changes each day are exciting to see. Not only is the floor down, but the walls are up. We're now ready to get the floor in the garage finished up, and we're also hoping to get the front porch on soon. Wahoo!

Floor Down

As projected, the floor trusses are down, and part of the main floor sub-floor is down as well. There's still some more framing to do downstairs, but it's very satisfying to see the trusses in place and know that things are moving up, up, up!

Well begun is half done

As you can see, the basement isn't quite finished yet, but we're excited for each bit of progress. There have been a lot of discrepencies between various versions of the plans, but out good framers are figuring them out. They hope as we do that the upper floors will go more quickly.

Fillin' and Framin"

Today saw the filling of the garage area nearly to the brim (just need some reject gravel now), and the framing of the peripheral walls of the basement. We're excited with the progress in both areas, particularly after little happened yesterday. Next up is the interior basement walls and perhaps even the floor trusses... more tomorrow. Stephanie and I went through the nitty-gritty on the windows, and will likely order these tomorrow.

North by Northwest

What a difference a day makes. Here we see Ellie inspecting the handiwork along the north basement wall. Next is a shot of the exterior wall up and the interior wall down. The final shot shows the work done along the edges of the foundation to get things bolted down and ready to go. Word on the street is that we may have the basement framed in and the first floor down before the weekend!

Let the Framing Begin!

Finally after a 3 week hiatus we're back in business! And what a  difference a few weeks can make. We're on the cusp of having the home  in Syracuse sold, and are all squared away in getting the construction loan. Can't tell you how nice it was to have Jim Kelly, some of his crew and the folks from BMC here this morning bright and early to get things going again!