Yup, Pink House!

The windows are in and the insulation is on!
Someone turned my house pink!

Yesterday was spent re-organizing the house and packing up what was under the kitchen sink [nasty place!], the bathroom, and ALL both kitchen cabinets near the sink in prep for the plumbers arrival on Monday.

Walls will come down, and the wash machine, dryer, old water heater, old tub, old toilet will go out.
Yes.
No shower,  toilet, or wash machine for a while.  Thank goodness for the outhouse right?

I have the creek to wash in right?  Hah.  We will have water.

I am taking some inside shots so that I can compare before, during and after the construction.
This is getting interesting!

Somehow I am still managing to keep the place somewhat organized.

Incredible right?

Oh and the concrete guys should be here to prep and perhaps pour the porch today.

I can see my yard again!

May 2nd, the cement guys arrived early to get the basement floor prepared for pouring concrete.

The plumbers have installed the drain and have run the water up through the bottom.

I grab a quick shot while the guys are waiting for the concrete to arrive.

Rich watches the contractors working.  He likes to keep an eye on things.

The floor is poured and then another truck comes in with a mix of concrete and pebbles [the technical terms were explained to me but I don't recall them!] to fill in the gap between the house on the slab and the rock wall below it.

Rich gets down and helps the concrete guys.

Here they are filling the 'gap' between the basement wall and the house.

Now if you recall, when the basement was dug, it was discovered that the house was on sandstone.  

Here it is:

And now with the basement finished and the gap filled.

End of day 7 of construction.

Items that were left to be completed were backfilling and running out the drain pipes for the drainage around the basement walls and the drain for the basement floor.

Remember that BIG ditch?

This is where the drains are to run off and direct water away from the house.

Here is the ditch with the drain tile in it and the water drain [it is buried by sand].

A job well done by Kurt from Crooked Creek Construction, LLC.

While the guys were doing that I went around to take a photo of Morris in the yard with the house in the backround.  
Looking at the house now I can see how badly things need repair.

One of the other things I want to show is how ugly things are pre-remodel and how things will look in comparison when it is all done.

I came home from work yesterday and found out that Kurt had come out with a skid steer and cleaned up that huge pile of dirt and sand.
Rich had moved the pile of gravel and dirt that had been graded out of the driveway.

Imagine my surprise at being able to pull up to my old parking area!

However, I still need to walk around the house to get inside.  But no more ditches!

There will be some extensive yard work to be done after this job.
We discussed hiring a guy with a dozer to come in and re-grade the driveway, then put in a new rock base and add gravel on top.

This was something we were meaning to do but had decided to wait until the remodel was finished.

The Little House Remodel Saga continues.

Day 3 Concrete & Stuff

Yesterday I actually had a day off from work and as I did chores I was able to try and stay out of the workers way.

Hofer Concrete Construction is who is doing the concrete work.  These guys really hustle and work hard.  I can see that what they do is not an easy job.
They finished setting up the ICF and in pulled the first Croell truck.

My only complaint is that the first driver came down the hill so fast no one thought he was going to be able to stop with a full load on.

Here is a short time lapse of the concrete going in yesterday.

The guys worked until the rain moved in.  

They smoothed off the top of the walls and left.

Today they are putting the drain 'tile' around the basement, putting the water proofing on the walls and putting 'washed' rock over the drain tile.

I just ran out and got some shots before I have to run off to my next work shift.

Siera was really not too happy about watching the big concrete trucks.

She kept going behind Fred for protection.

And Micah was extremely ho hum about the whole thing.

She felt it was just another day in mule land.