SST What Will it Be?

Moved In!!!

2007-04-22T15:48:00.001-07:00

We've moved in, I'll post again sometime soon!

2006-11-27T09:52:00.000-08:00

DAY 120...

Seems like forever ago doesn't it?

I'm still learning about this blogging thing so the pictures aren't the way I wanted them but I think you get the point. Alot has happened in the last 120 days. Our house is encased in pink foam, windows and doors are all set, even the garage doors. We are ready for sheetrock except the electrician and plumber aren't completed so we are kind of at a stand still. Steve, of course, has a million things he wants to do and I help out as much as I can. Not much help unfortunately, but some, a carpenter I am not! A cleaner, picker uper I am!!!
We were hoping to be in by Christmas, now it's looking more like early spring. I guess that's OK as we are quite comfortable where we are.
Hoping to start getting picutes of the inside, a little hard when there's only studs, can't quite get the feel for the rooms.
Stay tuned.....

2006-11-04T18:46:00.000-08:00

DAY 97...

It's been awhile I know, life has been pretty hectic. This is the finished drain field for the septic system looking out from the house into the backyard.

Steves new toy!

Steve's happy, basement was poured on Thursday, Oct. 26th.

Will get more pics next week as Steve went on his Elk hunting trip and took the camera with him.

Stay tuned.....

2006-10-12T08:41:00.000-07:00

Day 74...

First off a BIG "Happy Birthday" to Steve, he had a milestone birthday on Oct. 11! It was a cold, blustery day and he worked at the house from 8:00 in the morning until 7:00 at night. It was a busy and LONGGGG day for him and to top it off I have a cold so his evening wasn't too exciting. I did cook him his favorite meal and he talked to the two most important people in his life, Chris and Carrie, so he was a happy camper.

It's been awhile since we've blogged last and alot has happened. The whole house got wrapped in the Perm-A-Barrier weather barrier and Steve is now installing the pink foam. Once that is done it's ready for siding and no insulation needed on the inside as it's all on the outside. A new system called "Persist Insulation System". This system keeps the moisture and cold on the outside of the house.

The foam and Wirsbo got laid down in the garage so that's already to be poured.

This is a view of the back of the house. From left to right:

Family room, dining area, kitchen (over the sink) and our bedroom on the upper level.

Rec room and two guest bedrooms on the lower level.

On Monday, the 9th of Oct., they started the septic system.

On Tuesday, the 10th of Oct., they poured the garage floor and front entry way slab.
We aren't sure what we are going to do in this entry way, we've talked about tiling it or maybe stamped concrete, not sure...
On Tuesday, the 10th of October they also hooked up the electric. YEAH!!! We now have POWER!!!

On Wednesday, the 11th of October Steve met with the well guy and he will be drilling in the next week or two. The plumber came too and he and Steve started to lay out the plumbing.

So all in all the last 30 days or so have been very productive, sorry for the delay in updating the blog. Since I've semi-retired alot has happened to me as well. The first week I was going to spend pampering myself, which I did the first day, I drove up to Ely and visited family for a few days and when I got home I got SICKER than all get out with a sinus and ear infection. Thought I was on the mend and much to my dismay I've ended up with a cold so this week hasn't been the best. All in all I enjoy my days off, do some running around for Steve and taking care of personal things at home. Rosie is getting spoiled cause I'm home so much, she thinks this is great!!!

Stay tuned.....

2006-09-17T07:41:00.000-07:00

Day 49...

It's been awile but alot has happened this week as you can tell from the pictures, we now have a roof over our heads!! I know, some will say it looks just like our last house, not totally, a little. It didn't start out this way, there was a glitch with the roof trusses so we ended up with the little "eyeballs" I believe they call them over the garage and what will be the office. It probably helped so the glitch turned into something positive.
In between the garage and the office is our porch, I can't wait to put my wicker chairs out there and just enjoy the moment...

2006-09-07T19:02:00.000-07:00

Day 38 & 39...

Just a quick blog, I'm running on low today and I need to get some rest. Been super busy at work doing our transitions to our other divisions. In case I haven't mentioned I am retiring a little earlier than I had anticipated, and not by my choice either, Friday, Sept. 15th to be exact!
Roof trusses started going up on Wed. Should have the roof decking on and be ready for shingles by next Wed.! Will have more pics and do better at blogging over the weekend...

Can't wait to start my gardens...already have plans in my head, the trick to that will be getting it from my head to the yard and still be intact! Creative I am not, Carrie and Steve have all that.

2006-09-05T17:04:00.000-07:00

Day 35 - 37...

No pics today but stay tuned, should have some by the end of the week, they will be starting to set the roof trusses tomorrow!!

Day 35 it rained off and on all day, not much happened except Steve had to put brakes in the Van, guess it was a good day for that.

Day 36, very productive day!
Steve and Pad, the electrician, set the electric panel so we can get an inspection done and proceed with the electric before frost restrictions start on Oct. 1st, yes, Oct. 1st! Doesn't FROST sound kind of cold!!!!
Steve and Ron figured out where to run the heat ducts and set the furnace.
Dean the framer, who's EXCELLENT by the way, came and checked out all the trusses so they can start setting them tomorrow.
Apart from the house, I finished a knitting project Carrie gave me last Christmas, I'll have to explain sometime about my projects.

Day 37, Steve went out to make sure his supports are ready to pour his structural slab. I spent 45 minutes on the phone with the phone company setting up our service, unfortunatley our number will not stay the same as we've had for the past 27 years, different phone company. We will have DSL service though, that's a plus!!!

2006-09-02T08:26:00.000-07:00

Day 29 - 34...

Steve worked on his project on Monday, Day 29 and has it ready. He was able to obtain a "VAULT" door and decided it would be fun to put it in the new house. We incorporated that into the house and he is now going to pour a structural slab as the ceiling for his "vault". Not sure what we'll use it for, it's quite large and I don't think I have enough jewels to fill it up, I'm sure we'll find something.
Other than that it's been a quiet week, waiting for the framers to come back and put up the roof tursses and the roof decking.
Stay tuned...

2006-08-27T14:50:00.000-07:00

Day 26 - 28....

Steve worked on a project all day on Sat. at the house, hard to explain but it has to do with a vault door, as soon as he brings the door out to the house, I'll explain further. Today, Day 28, I went with him to help out and do my cleanup, I'm the master of cleaning up! After helping him with his project I dug a hole for a footing in the basement, was pretty easy to start but then I hit clay, got it done though.

All the outside & inside walls are up. I layed out both bathrooms so we know where the fixtures go.

The walkout end of the house...

The back of the house...

Not sure, but I know we have deer in the yard, can you find the hoof print? We also had some PRETTY good size paw prints, either a neighbor has a big dog or we have another creature lurking...

Also made a nice burn pile with all the wood scraps so when the weather permits we can have a bonfire, looking forward to some smoores...

2006-08-24T17:40:00.000-07:00

Day 20-25...

No pics of the house this week, all outside and inside walls are up though. Waiting on the roof trusses. Just as well they aren't here, been rainy the last two days so they couldn't have worked anyway. Anxious to see with all the walls up, haven't been there since Sunday. Stay tuned.....

How about those girls?? Aren't they beautiful??

2006-08-19T15:18:00.000-07:00

Day 19...

The walls are going up! It's beginning to look like.....A HOUSE!:)

As you can see the garage walls aren't up yet but most of the main floor is, trusses should start going up on Monday.....

2006-08-17T18:20:00.000-07:00

Day 15...

Started to do the backfilling and grading of the yard. Framers put the basement walls up.

Day 16...
Put the trusses on for the main floor., looking into the basement from the walkout end.

Looking toward the back of the house.

Looking into the basement from the walkout end.

A view from the road looking down the driveway, isn't finished with the final grading yet, will finish later this week.

Day 16...
Had the day off, Carrie went with me to pick out appliances, she and Steve talked me into Stainless. Also made a stop to pickup Steve's mount that he had done of the 10 pt. buck he shot last winter with a "Bow and Arrow", BEAUTIFUL isn't it?

Day 17...
Put the decking on for the main floor and Steve and I went out and painted it so it wouldn't soak up water and warp and also for easy cleanup, the framers liked it!

Day 18...
Framers started putting up the walls for the main floor, anxious to see it, will get pics this weekend. The excavators were there too filling in the garage and doing some more grading.

2006-08-13T17:49:00.000-07:00

Day 14...

Had good intentions today, went out and started to pick more rocks for my rock garden but "Mother Nature" had other plans for us...it rained for the better part of the day so we went and had dinner with family, niece Susan and her son Zachary are here from Japan and it just so happened to be her birthday!

2006-08-12T15:39:00.000-07:00

Day 13
Steve put the foam on the house and the framers started laying out the walls for the basement. Slow day because it isn't backfilled yet so it's hard to move around and it got kind of warm. Carrie came out on her motorcycle, she and I moved foam around for Steve, then we needed some material so she ran to Forest Lake for us. THANKS CARRIE!! I also collected a few rocks for my rock garden...

The is the walkout end of the house...

This is the back of the house...

This is the front of the house looking toward the garage...

This is the front of the house looking toward the entry way...

2006-08-11T19:10:00.000-07:00

Day 12
Steve painted the weatherproofing on the foundation, came home a little blue, really that's the color of our foundation now, tomorrow it will be pink. Steve didn't take any pics, he was pretty busy, going out myself tomorrow, will try and get some before the colors get changed.
ALL the lumber was delivered for the house today. By ALL I mean ALL, they made a mistake, were only supposed to bring the floor trusses, floor decking and enough foam for the foundation but someone forgot to tell them that, Whoops! Framers were there checking it all out, will start setting lumber tomorrow.....

2006-08-10T18:27:00.000-07:00

Day 9 - 10 & 11
LOTS has happened since we blogged last.. Day 9 & part of 10 they put the pans up for the foundation. Day 10 at approx 1:30 PM they started the pour. After 9 cement trucks, 65 yards of cement and 2-1/2 hours later we had a foundation! I watched the entire pour and it was the most amazing thing I've seen in a long time.

From the road you can see the boom truck, the cement trucks back up to it and pour the cement into a hopper and the boom truck pumps it out of a big hose....

Someone holds the hose over the pans but it's really an operator with a remote control joy stick that guides the hose into position so it pumps into the spaces between the pans and the others smooth out the tops, this is the walk-out end of the house....

Mike Anderson is the operator with the remote control....

This is the back of the house....

About 3/4 of the way through the pour it POURED rain, a little damage to the driveway but NO one got stuck, the excavator came later and smoothed it out.

2006-08-07T19:17:00.001-07:00

Day 8
Not much happening today, delivered the pans for the foundation, hope to pour on Wed. Guess there's more to it than they thought.....

2006-08-06T19:38:00.000-07:00

Day 7...
We (or should I say Steve) put tar on the footings today. They are going to be putting the poured wall pans up tomorrow and Tuesday (we are having poured walls so the pans hold the concrete in place). They will start pouring on Tuesday afternoon, plan on taking time off work to go watch cause I've never seen it done before. It's looking more like a house and the mental picture I've had since last year is taking shape.
Kind of got the pictures out of order a little bit but I think you can tell what's happening. The one with the backhoe on it is the beginning, then the footings for the basement, a view looking toward the road and finally a view from the road looking toward the house. I'm new at this but I promise I'll get better as will the pictures.
Oh, we had deer tracks on our driveway today too, good sign for Steve.
*Updated: pictures are in the correct order!

2006-08-05T11:50:00.000-07:00

Day 3 - 4 - 5 & 6
Still haven't downloaded the pics but the excavating is done and the footings are in. I haven't see it since Day 2 so I'm hoping to go out tomorrow and take some more pics. Will be pouring the walls on Tuesday of next week. Seems like it was moving fast for a few days now we've slowed down. Will be able to see more progress once the framing starts.......

2006-08-01T17:11:00.000-07:00

Day 2

Unfortunately "Mother Nature" had other plans for us today cause it rained and we needed it desperately! So, no pics to share, no digging today. We decided to wait until tomorrow instead of making a muddy mess. Stay tuned.....

2006-07-31T17:51:00.000-07:00

Day 1

No pics today but they put in the culverts and started the driveway. Will go out after work tomorrow and take some pics to share. EXCITING!!

The Beginning

2006-07-30T20:01:00.000-07:00

Well, we're about to begin! You can't really see them but the layout stakes for the house are there, should be putting in the driveway Tuesday. Stay tuned!