Well, we have come to expect them along the way - speed bumps.  With the holiday weekend coming up and a few snags with the county work has been put on hold until the middle of next week.  Stay tuned.

So the rough plumbing went in on Friday.  Goodbye copper pipes, hello Pex!  And now that we have half of the flooring insulation in it's supposed to rain tomorrow.  Thank you Mother Nature!

Week 1 progress

Well, after a few technical difficulties with the video, here's the progress the guys made this week.

All of the rough plumbing is in, Sheelagh, Denise (her sister) and I will install the flooring insulation today.   Once the county comes out to inspect the sub floor (hopefully Monday or Tuesday), it's time for the walls to go up!

First day's progress

As much as I love quiet, I don't mind hearing the sounds of construction the first thing in the morning - power saws, hammering, that funny noise a nail gun and compressor make.  Of course, we'll see how I feel in about 6 weeks.  But given that the first delivery was not complete and that summer decided to arrive with little warning (it was about 95* yesterday and today is slated to be even hotter!), the guys have actually started building our house!!  We've set up a time lapse camera and I'll post a short video at the end of each week but here's what things looked like first thing this morning.

One lesson we've learned (over and over again) is that nothing is as easy as you think it should be.  Over the weekend, we were working in the yard and I wanted to move (finally) the two pallets of brick leftover from the foundation.  I was even resigned to go into zen mode and move them by hand.  But then Sheelagh suggested renting a forklift from the rental yard just down the street and saving all that energy (and Ibuprofen) for one of the other hundred or so jobs on the list.  So I phone, and sure no problem come on down and pick one up.  When I get there and I explain to the guy what I need it for (I would be driving it on grass and dirt and not on concrete) he tells me the one in the yard probably wouldn't work that well.  But he was just going to pick up another one that had big wheels that would work much better and he could drop it off on his way back.  Great (I think)!  I'll see you in a couple of hours.  So sure enough, a couple of hours later he phones back and tells me to meet him at the end of the driveway (it's a long one) and he'll show me how the thing works.  Perfect (I think)!  Now mind you, the whole time I had envisioned one of those forklifts you see at Home Depot or Costco.

Of course, my vision was a little off.  I was laughing so hard at first I could  hardly see through the tears!!  But after much trial and error (and more laughter) the bricks got moved.  See?  Piece of cake!                                                                                   

Let the building begin! (well, almost)

It's hard to believe that this will be turned into the beginning of our house (up to the sub floor).  We've waited sooo long (7 years but who's counting)!  We've gotten alot accomplished in those 7 years ...

                                                        we've cut up some trailers ...

 

and hauled away some trash ...

                                                                 dug a new water well ...

      put in a new septic system ...

and built our own outhouse ...

We never expected it to take this long but it's been said that good things come to those who wait.  Monday morning the crew will be here to get it all started!  Stay tuned ...