Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Phase 2 update!

Ok so I last left you in 2015's big project which was putting in insulation and plywood. Here are a few of the finished pictures!


This is a clear view of the fact that we didn't have much insulation! 
The only reason the wall does 
on the left does is because that is the bathroom we redid.



Yeh!!! Shout for joy the plywood is all up!!!



We have a beautiful view, I must say!




Was time to rebuilt the platform that you step onto when coming through the front door!
Completely rebuilt and plywood for the floor I can't seem to find the finished picture!




Thoughts for the bathroom because we love
 how it looks at the front door!
No completed yet!!



We built this 5 years ago. Time has come!


It looks so empty with out the car port! 


Oh my things are about to get real!!


 Moved out of the back bedrooms and time to fix the foundation!
H A Higgins & Son Inc workers took 1 week to dig pour and back fill!





We are ready for some concrete! 


Phase 1: footing poured!!


Now to fill that empty space and 
reward my husband for putting up with my 
wild dream!


A foundation for a garage what more do men want!!


Oh that's right where we live they want it heated!!


Back to the house because we can't have
that big gaping hole all winter!! Phase 2 getting ready to pour the 
wall!!


Here come the trucks! I think there were 2 or 3 just
for the garage that day!!


Walls are done and now for hauling in 
that stone and pouring the slab!















Now it is time for the back filling 
but first the drainage!




Getting the yard back into shape with a drain!



Cement is poured in the house!





Slab is dry and the week is through! 
Crew is gone and now it is time for me to start building!


Husband is at work and it is summer vacation for the kids. This girl is out building a garage! 30' x 32'!


Was a long couple of day's putting walls together and finding help to stand them. I couldn't really help as I had hurt my back earlier in the year. Thanks to all of you who were here to help us lift these walls. 



A break from the garage while we add some extra insulation to the back wall 2" foam. I am also patiently waiting on my windows for the bedrooms at this point! 



Mind you this was a dance hall and we we were cutting the wall for a window we found palm trees!


Still waiting!



Mean while the garage is getting rafters!!


Good thing my husband is NOT bothered by heights like I am!!



Time to call in the monkey's who are not afraid to be up there! Thank you to our best man in our wedding 
for coming to help till after dark! Also to another who was there to walk the nail gun back and forth! 






To tired to cook for anyone time to go out to dinner! Then when we got home we remembered we didn't have a picture of it done so here is the first picture with it this far!



Roofing going up. I am used to this part, we did the roof on the house one summer! I get to stand on the man lift!!!


Believe it or not this was the roofing on the house 
and we recycled it for the garage I just love that it looks like one of them really old barns!


Time for some fun and sunsets out to the lake!


 What a long summer it was!!

Next post will have less pictures but talk about all the fun we had last summer and what we are up to know! 

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