Rug Cleaning

Today we are cleaning our rugs!

I'm not going to have a Saturday off for a while, so we have got to get it done.

Just the two biggest ones, can't wait to see the finished result.

The power washer comes in mighty handy for this!!

When we are done, I am going to decorate this patio.

I will post pictures of that very soon!!!

More later......................Sally

Geo Thermal Heating and Cooling

They have started on the geo thermal heating and cooling.

They dug a huge race track in the back yard. 

These pictures are of the pipes they laid in the ground that will have the water pumping through them.

This is what it looks like coming in the basement.

Those pipes come all the way across the basement ceiling and hook up to these massive machines.

Slowly but surely we are getting things done!




More later.........................Sally

Doors and Door Handles

As I promised, here is a picture of the front door.

I haven't decided what color to stain it yet.

Originally I was going to stain it to match the floor of our Trex (wood looking) floors on the porch.

But we decided against the Trex flooring and went with cement floors.

So..............I'm not sure what to do with the color, maybe black to match the roof?

I wanted to show you the transom window above the door.

It's my favorite part.

We really like the darker bronze finish that some of the door knobs have right now, but we had to do the silver to match the silver lead in the cut glass design in the door.

When the sun shines through the front door in the late afternoon it makes beautiful rainbows all over the floor.

Here is a shot of the basement walk out.

We went with the silver to match the lead in the doors also.

We have decided the single lever door handle is so much easier to use than the regular door knob, so we are going to use these as much as possible. 

Right now Big Ran is still working on siding the eaves, he will be done with that this week.

Moving right along.

More later.......................Sally



This New House is Moving Right Along

We have walls!

I have been told that all the outside walls should be up today.

Yay!!

Putting the ceiling in the basement makes the basement seem much larger.

I had to get a picture of the guys in action.

Now I have to get the plans and figure out exactly where I want all of the inside walls to go.

No small task.

Wish me luck.

More later..........................Sally

Progress, Progress, Progress

So far we have beams up in the basement.

The stairs are boxed in.

Some of the floor is being laid.

Doesn't look like a house to me yet.

Here is a view from the basement up.

I never had any idea how many tresses it takes to hold up a floor.

I will feel very safe walking across it.

Just taking you through every step of the way.

More later......................................Sally

Plumbing

I made a YouTube video about some of our plumbing.

All you do is push the play button and you can watch it!

I hope you enjoy it.

It is all coming together, slowly but surely.

More later......................................Sally

Street to House Plumbing

We are getting stuff done around here for the new house.

Here are some pictures of the plumbing going in.

This is our line hooked up to the city's meter.

Dig, Dig, Dig!  

We are putting a bathroom in the barn, so we now have water and sewer hooked up to the barn . 

 

 This is our connection to the new house.

And I have water to the garden!!!

No more lugging the three water hoses to the garden spot!

Yay!!

 

 Aren't the tress getting beautiful!?

 Big Ran has the sump pump in.

  

 Tonight they are starting on the big rock wall down by the basement walkout.

I will post pictures on it soon!!

    

 More later.............................Sally

  

Footings for the Basement

I first blogged this post last summer.

Yes, we have news on the progress of the new house.

Over the last few weeks we did get some things started. There is a hole dug for the basement.

The footings have been mapped out.

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And poured.

  WRONG!!

  Do you see all that space to the right of the picture here?

  The footings were supposed to go out 5 more feet.

So we had to break some of it up and pour some more!

We start pretty early around here!

The new correct footings are in and now the walls go up.

Now Big Ran and I get to tar the basement walls.

  We started this project after I got home from work around 3:00 pm in 100 degree heat.

Needless to say, I didn’t last very long!

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Shafer looks pretty tiny in there looking for a place to raise his leg and relieve himself.

That is our 15 foot walkout from the basement to add a little light down there.

It has been a productive summer, slow but sure.

Shafer is always helping.

 He doesn’t want to miss a thing.

The plumbing starts in a couple of weeks.

 Stay tuned for more exciting adventures!!

More later…………………Sally

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