The Big Move

Well….what a week.  Yet again a huge amount of progress has been made on the house.  The week started off with the heat pipes going in on the main floor.  As you can see from the pictures there will not be a cold spot on the whole floor – which is great cos I hate cold feet.  Whilst the pipes were being laid on the main floor the second storey floor was being put in – ready to have the heat pipes added the next day.  On Wednesday the concrete was poured on the main floor followed by the second floor on Thursday.

Whilst the floor was drying, the contractors responsible for putting in the fireplace came to site and started work.  by the end of the week they had half completed it.

On the Friday we were able to stand on the second floor of the house, and oh my, what a view.  We can see right over the tops of the trees into the bay of Tatamagouche.  We can see the Cobequid mountains out the back and as far as PEI out to the front.   By the end of Friday we not only had the floor in on the second floor, but the framing was up for the external walls.

It was only after the floor had been poured and the framing was up that we spotted a little extra part of the house that we had missed on the plan.  Next to the master bedroom there was a space that was not utilised.  It was about 4 feet wide by 30 feet long.  We decided that this would be great for a storage space and so we asked our builder to put a door in the bedroom so we could access the space.  Just think of all that wasted space had we not seen this when we did.

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It was an eventful week on the house build last week.  A lot happened and changed in a short space of time.  All of the internal walls on the ground floor were marked out and the framing for the outside was started. Over the course of a couple of days the outside walls were put up – which really gave us a feel for the how the inside was going to be.  We went into where living room is going to be and were confronted with this huge framed hole in the wall.  This was going to be our window.  We knew it was a big window but didn’t comprehend just how big until we saw the gap for it.

After the outside framing was up, the weather decided to change and it snowed (see Proper Snow post).  This didn’t stop the work though.  They started to put up the sheeting for the side of the house on the day it was snowing.  The next day, after spending 2 hours shoveling the snow out of the house, they built the staircase down to the basement (no more climbing in through windows 🙂 ).  Finally on the Friday, the garage started to emerge.

So, there was a lot of progress last week.  We have been told that the plan for next week is to get the same amount done – and a bit more 🙂

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