Week 9
Week 9 saw the basement floor being poured, sealed crawlspace insulation installed, and a ton of framing materials dropped off in advance of the walls going up next week! Plywood sheathing dropped off in advance of Week 10 framing! Dumpster drop off. Sh*t just got real! 🙂 Basement flooring got poured The […]
Week 7 – Tuff-n-Dri
After the explosive week 6 work with the foundation going up week 7 HAD to slow down. While waiting on the concrete to cure before framing two important things got accomplished. 1) The Tuff-n-Dri waterproofing system was applied 2) The basement rough-in plumbing was installed The Tuff-n-Dri product is a two-part system in the finished […]
Week 6 – Foundation time!
Week 6 saw the foundation guys putting up the forms and getting ready to pour some concrete!!! Day 2! Since the foundation guys were only about 65-70% done with the forms yesterday I decided to take a trip back to the site to get some more pics. It looked quite a bit different and things […]
Week 5 – Idle decisions
Week 5 brought more cold weather which meant no concrete pours. As much as I loathe an idle week there are still a TON of decisions to be made so we got to work on a few. Color siding choices Robert Nebolon, the architect, has put lots of thought into the colors of the Artisan […]
Week 4 – Footers!
Week 4 saw more bad weather including a severe storm. Regardless, progress was made and footers are in! The temp pole for the electric has also been erected. Weather permitting, foundation walls are poured next week!
Week 3 – Knoxville “MUDern”
Well, week 3 brought one of the biggest winter storms in the past 30 years so there was not a lot of action on the lot. Still, some dirt got moved around, and hauled off, making it easier to see how the house is going to sit and how the driveway is going to work. […]
WEEK 2
The week 2 excavation brought some more bad weather with several rainy days and more sub-freezing temps. Amazingly, quite a bit of work got done. Unfortunately, when part of the driveway was carved out to get the big equipment in it was clear making a driveway “loop” around the large Oak trees was probably not […]
Week 1!!!
The FIRST WEEK OF CONSTRUCTION started with some HEAVY machinery being brought in for excavation. Of course, the first day it would SNOW! The final main level floor elevation is 83′. The final basement floor elevation is 73′. That meant some serious digging, especially in the basement area. Below are some pics from this weeks […]
Preparing For Permit
After the land had been cleared, we had the surveyor come back out and re-stake the lot to the new position, 20′ EAST and 10′ SOUTH. With my VERY CRUDE markups you can see where the garage wall is and “roughly” where the front door will be on the lot. With the new move the […]
