Yard Work

Our concrete contractor had the weekend off so we don't have any new pictures to share on the foundation progress but he has been working so hard and quick that we hope he was able to enjoy the fantastic weather!

Although we don't have any new house progress pictures to update, we do have some to share with you all on a little project we started ourselves! In a corner of our backyard there is an old back-stop from where a baseball field once was. There are a lot of trees and vines tangled up in this old fence and the posts are rotting! Matt and Dick went up there today and started work on cutting them out and getting the fence down. Robert and I joined them later and helped pull out a lot of vines and piled up the cut stuff for burning later. Weenie roast!!!

Day 5

Today, the concrete guys got the majority of inner wall forms up to *hopefully* pour the concrete on Monday. But today wasn't that easy for Matt and I. Matt received an early phone call from the concrete contractor asking if any windows needed to be installed in the basement. Matt told him that the Hamilton codes didn't mention anything about it and the building inspector never said it was required. Matt had to make a phone call to the building inspector and to his surprise, Hamilton adopted the 2006 International Building Codes that require at least one egress window in a sealed basement!


So, Matt spent the entire morning making phone calls trying to find out the requirements for this window while I looked through the Hamilton building codes and online for information. We were acting like lunatics looking for answers!! Matt finally found the information and let the concrete contractor know what they were and we think everything is squared away.









Ty keeps us busy when we are not spending our time on the house. Sorry I couldn't figure out how to rotate the picture.

Day 4

Day 3

Today was a rainy day. However, they did work some. Hopefully tomorrow it's not raining and more can get done.

Day 2

All In A Day's Work

Construction began today. Here is the first day of construction.

Construction Begins!

Today, Matt met with our concrete contractor! He is going to be starting a lot sooner than we thought. He is wanting to start digging on Monday morning! Which is fine with us. However, Matt just has to check with our building inspector and see if it is okay since the permit we got has not actually been approved. It won't be approved until Monday night.

The house should be ready in four to six weeks. Then we have to hope for no rain!