Foundation Walls … and our first visitor!

Our new routine is to head out to the new house when the baby wakes up after his morning nap. This time we took a friend who was in town for the weekend with us. Our first visitor! And if any of our friends out there on the internets wants to come see we’d love to show it off.

We laid down hardwood floors in our current house and before we put the floors in we wrote little messages on the tar paper. Since we knew they were going to start pouring the slab soon, I wanted to be all mushy and sentiment and put some mementos into the new house … like a flower from our wedding, and maybe the positive pregnancy test, but I totally forgot to bring it with us. Maybe I can convince R to head out to the site before they pour the slab.

Anyway, picture time. Over the past week they poured the foundation walls, put down the stone for the basement floor, did some back filling, started taring the sides, and delivered the exterior brick. They are really getting things done much quicker than I expected.

The delivered brick.

The foundation walls

Waterproofing the exterior

Coming up this week, the plumber is going to lay the rough-ins for the basement, they are going to finish the waterproofing, back filling against the house, pouring the slab, deliver the framing materials and maybe even start framing the basement!

 

Driveway and Basement and Footings.Oh my!

They are moving right along, going much faster than I expected. Did I say how much we heart Dobson homes yet? Big pink puffy heart LURV. They really are doing an excellent job.

Last week they drilled the well and we’ve got super water. We’ve 60 GPM (1 GPM is the minimum required for code) and a total depth of 405′.  Tommy joked that we’ve got enough water to open up a car wash.

The also stoned the driveway to the house and dug out the basement. We went over this past weekend to check it out. Some pictures:

The new driveway

The dug out basement

Today they poured the footings. R went out over lunch to check it out and everything looks great. They had the wall forms out there but not set up yet. I’m guessing that within the week the will have the basement walls poured.

(See the basement wall forms in the truck)

It’s really coming along quickly! We are behind on our to-do list. We got stone samples from Luck Stone but we’re having a really hard time deciding. We also have to start shopping for appliances, pick out lighting, pick out tile, get a bathroom sink and lots more. I’ve been super busy at work lately and we just haven’t had time. I think R is going to have to take another day off, we’ll put kiddo in daycare and start picking out stuff. This is so much fun!