Looking from the master bath toward the new garage…
November 16, 2007
They’re scheduled to pour tomorrow!
November 7, 2007
Isn’t our new master bath pretty?? We think so!
We’ve got plumbing in and slab framed… and slab will be poured soon.
November 1, 2007
well, we’re making progress… lots of dirt has been hauled in, to bring the master and the detached garage to the elevation of the main house. Slab should be coming soon!
October 24, 2007
The rain stopped so they came in today with big machines and broke up slabs and removed trees like nothing. Way cool! More pics on flickr…
I felt bad removing trees, but they were scruffy shrub-like ones, they’d be in the way, and removing them makes more room for the good trees to grow.
I did not feel bad removing old slab and the front porch. Which by the way was 2 front porches in one! A new one poured right on top of an old one. And neither were attached to the house- they were just up next to it.
October 23, 2007
The high today was 58, a bit different from the 87 high one day earlier.
Only in Texas do we drop 30 degrees in a day!
A cold front blew in, the rains came, and the guys who were going to do the site prep didn’t. So no pictures today…
The cooler weather is welcome- but hopefully tomorrow when the rains stop the prep can begin.
October 22, 2007
We staked out the setback lines today. It’s good to have a civil engineer around! We all helped, it was a whole family affair. It also saved us $300 since we didn’t have to pay someone else to do it! We went to freebirds for dinner with the $ we saved. And had lots left over. Enough for a window or two, anyway.
This weekend we’ve also been trying to decide what kind of doors we want. Wow, there are way too many choices, and this is the first of (way too) many decisions like this we’ll have to make. We haven’t even started!
Monday morning starts site prep, which means the old slab is removed, trees are removed as needed (hopefully not many, and what they may have to take is mostly scruffy ones. We put stakes and tape around the ones we don’t want them to touch), dirt is leveled etc, plumbing is roughed in and SLAB is poured. It’s so exciting. I can’t wait to see the outline of where the master and the garage are going to be.
October 18, 2007
Yay- there’s progress, in the way of a roof over our head! The new roof in the converted garage/soon to be kitchen looks good. I’m very excited that we’ll have a vaulted (cathedral?) ceiling. And the triangle windows break up the roofline and make the house already look better. Originally it looked squished, like a big giant had stepped on it like a bug. Not so more anymore!
Still no wall in the back, but…
October 17, 2007
Yeah we bought this house over a year ago, and remodeling is finally starting! We did a lot (Ok, Kayvon did a lot) of demo, exploratory to find out where the plumbing was etc and otherwise. The kids helped too- Reen did a good job scraping linoleum in the kitchen and Shawn can remove nails like there’s no tomorrow. We removed a lot of drywall, carpet, insulation, and crap. Which was all work we didn’t have to pay others to do! But now we need others. So finally this week they’re coming. The framers are coming, to frame the bathroom reconfiguration upstairs, to open the hallway under the stairs, to frame the upstairs nook, to make attic access outside of the bedroom closet, and to take the AC out of the dining room closet. It’s all good.
If you wanna follow along feel free. I’ll try to document on this page. You can also watch http://eit.tamu.edu/JJ/casa/house.swf that shows our progress.
