Another update

Work continues. We're hoping that the concrete floor in the basement will be poured this week since the city inspector approved the underground plumbing. Sorry, these photos aren't as exciting. Hang in there and eventually we will get to real walls, cabinets, etc.

In this one you can see the duct work run in addition to the light cans, etc in the ceiling.

Plumbing and duct work in the half bathroom on the main floor.

Duct work running in the mechanical wall between the half bathroom and the kitchen on the main floor.

That's all for now. Hopefully more soon!

We have stairs!

These are photos from April 22. And we finally have stairs! Well, at least in between the 2nd and 3rd floors there are stairs, but that counts. Still waiting on the city inspection for the underground plumbing, but once that is done the concrete floor can be poured and the stairs can be built between the 1st and 2nd floors. Also, electrical and mechanical are going in. Its a busy few weeks.

No explanation needed.


Looking down from the 3rd floor.

Can lights - I think this in the living room.


The AC vent in the floor of the master bedroom.


Ryon making sure everything is running smoothly.

Photos from April 16

It was really exciting to finally see all of the work being done on the house in person - so much better than these photos! Work continues to progress. These photos, from Saturday the 16th, show the guest bedroom framed out as well as the upstairs hall bath. More to come soon when I have a chance to do another update.

This is looking into the guest bedroom on the top floor (office is to the right). You can see the framing for the pocket door on the floor in the right bottom corner of the photo.

The port window in the guest bedroom.

The ceiling over the guest bedroom and bathroom. The roof will be raised some to flatten it for our future roofdeck (it currently has a steep pitch). We dropped the ceiling over the guest bed and bath so we can have attic crawl space.

The guest bathroom.

Plumbing

Work has been a little slower the last few weeks. We've had to make a few changes to the structural plans, etc and get the approval from the city to hook up the gas line, so it has taken a bit of time. But we want to make sure that everything is done correctly and we foresee all potential future issues with improvements we want to make to the house (i.e. the structural plans need to be detailed to the point that they show the roof load can hold our future roof deck). This all has to be completed before we re-do the roof.

This week, the plumbing is going in. See photos below. We hope that next week the concrete floor will be poured and they can begin removing and replacing the roof.

The first 'room' framed

Okay, and now I'm caught up on my posts. Ryon took these yesterday. The first shows more framing going up on the main floor. Notice all the old, peeling plaster is off of the walls.

And our dining room windows are framed. Actually glass windows coming soon?

And the most exciting, the first rooms framed in the house! (Also known as the coat closet and the powder room).

Two in one

Work is moving so fast on the house, I can't keep up with my posts. So here is two in one. First, the second floor joists and subfloor were completed last week.

This one shows the main floor looking towards the living room. You can see how tall the ceilings are.

This is looking into the master bedroom on the top floor - 15' ceilings up here!

The next few are from several days later - the start of framing! The interior walls (the long one shared with the house next door) will have exposed brick but we have to insulate all of the exterior walls.

Here is the main floor looking into the back corner of the kitchen. There will be cabinets in this corner so we need drywall here.

These are the kitchen windows. All of the old, rotting wooden window frames have been pulled out. There will be an amazing amount of light in our kitchen.

A new window frame, looking out onto 8th Street from the main floor.

A few more photos

Here are a few more photos from Tuesday.

Second floor joists going up! This one is taken in the living room on the main floor looking towards the kitchen. The second floor joists that are in will be where the guest bedroom is.

Still the first floor looking towards the living room, but all of the subfloor is down.

From the first floor looking up through the second floor to the other port window in the back of the guest bedroom.