12 Days Later...

It's been almost two weeks since I've last updated so you would think there would be a ton of things to write about but amazingly there's not too much. That's not to say that the guys haven't worked hard, they've just been working on bigger jobs. The drywallers haven't started yet, we're hoping they come on Monday but I'm not holding my breath. We thought they were starting over a week ago but they've been delayed at the job they are working on now.

The basement is being worked on! The guys dug out the gravel that had been down there and literally pitched it out the window so crushed rock could be hauled down there instead. Apparenlty crushed rock will compact better than wet clay and gravel. Those poor guys sure earned their keep working on that job. The rock was hauled to the yard in an end-dump dump truck instead of a cement truck with a chute so that meant the guys had to shovel the rock into the basement through the windows and then shovel into a wheelbarrow and haul it throughout the basement. I'm so glad I was not on that crew!! The garage floor is done, house wrap is all on and the veranda floor is built, which the kids are loving. According to Larissa it now feels like a house being able to walk out the front door and play on the veranda!

Here are a few "before & after" pictures:

The basement floor before the crushed rock. You can see how wet the clay and gravel were with the puddle in the floor and the goop dripping down the wall. Yuck!

The basement floor after the crushed rock. We weren't around when the crushed rock was being done so the after picture has the styrofoam over the floor.

The garage floor ready for cement.

The garage floor is poured and being used as a garage already, storing everything except the vehicles!

The shovels that I'm sure the guys are hoping not to use for a long time after the basement job!

The veranda piles. Ron says we can unload the snowmobile on the veranda with those piles. I say otherwise!!

The veranda floor. There will be temporary stairs built for this fall because of all the settling that will happen this coming winter and spring and the permanent set should be built next summer.

This coming week should hopefully see the drywallers coming to "fill in the walls" as Bethany would say. I am meeting with the painter this coming week as well to pick colours, that's the most nervewracking part for me! Thankfully the painter is also an interior designer from the area here so I should be okay. ;) The pipes are being laid in the basement for infloor heat this week as well and maybe the rebar and cement following soon after that.

We have a somewhat relaxing weekend ahead considering it's August and we farm, hopefully you get to enjoy some relaxing time outside too!!