Thursday, June 24, 2010

Today marks the 26th day of actual construction but we have been living with/in the construction for 44 days.

The framers, Rob, Josh and Mike are just about done now...they'll return to finish putting in all the windows (we decided to replace the rest of the old windows in the house too, but we're waiting on one window to come in). They were great...hard workers and put up with the kids which made it extra great.


So for now they put in the four windows in the bedrooms, now we're just about enclosed...not sealed but at least we're not air conditioning Las Vegas anymore.







Today the electricians and insulation guys came.












Rob & Josh opened up Mackenzie's room wall (that blue one with the nursery rhyme painting on it) to make room for the window.

This is Mackenzie's view from her window...and yes, she has a strip view! I don't even have that! The lucky dear...I guess that's her compensation for the smaller room...granted I doubt she'll appreciate it until she's older.














And the bathroom is all framed in too! Shower in the back and toilet and vanity to the right!

Ball Home Addition Week 7

June 21-23, 2010

So here she is...isn't she beautiful!









Arches were put in this week...gotta fit some misters in too.








Since Lance sooooo wanted to help...he got put on nail pullin' duty.












And quickly found out that it's a never ending job and looked for something more "fun" too do.

June 14-18, 2010 Home Addition

Again sorry these are a week late...trying to get back into the swing of things after a trip with 5 kids always seems to take a little while.
So this week ended at day 22 of construction with 38 days total under construction. And looky looky what they did!



Here is Ryne doing a little peek-a-boo from the top of the stairs through the "wall".







We are just about entirely enclosed now with most of the interior walls also framed.
This view is taken from Kristen's room looking through the closets into Brendan's room.






Kristen's room ~ doorway and framing around chimney.












View from Brendan's room through closets to Kristen's room






Lance and Ryne's bedroom closets










Hallway











Mackenzie's room...that wall will soon make way for the window. And bathroom still needs to be framed on the right side.







Ange called on Monday night and told me that she could see the sky through the roof. They had cut into the roof to make room for the extension. And here's the new wall going up.





Of course more has happened this week...but you'll just have to wait til I get the chance to post it. The kids have had a blast running "through" the walls playing in their "new" rooms. I start to wonder if we should just leave it as is....hmmm.

Home Addition Week of June 7-11, 2010

Ok, so I'm a week behind. With the construction chaos and getting ready for our trip to Utah I just didn't get any posts up. And unless Eric takes some pictures and posts them it will be another week until I am able to post anything new on the addition after this one.

In any case here is all that happened this last week...



Monday June 7, 2010 ~ Day 13 ~ Total days under construction 27



And the walls go up. Its so fun to see them up. It really makes it seem "real".

With all the walls up, Tuesday the trusses arrive and are prepared to be put up.

Of course the exciting part was watching the crane lift and "fly" them over the house to the back. The first truss took a little time to put into place, since it had to be placed...just right...after that the remaining trusses just flew into place.

All eight are up!

Now the existing walls to the other bedrooms get removed to make room for the hallway.

And this one is removed to make space for the closet for this room. It had to be moved to the opposite side of the room so that the bathroom could take it's place.

And there's the framing for Mackenzie's closet.

The current doorway that you see will be widened for the hallway.

This was our linen closet that was in the hallway. It is being removed to make room for the bathroom.

I didn't get a chance to take some pictures on Friday but what was done was the frames for the hallway and also the frames for the walls separating the new rooms and closets were also done.

I am sure that it will look totally different when we get home next week. Hopefully Eric will be able to post some pictures this week.

Day 12 ~ Total Days Under Construction 24 ~

Friday ~ June 4, 2010



As you can see the floor is up and we now have a covered patio! The shade is bliss! I wanted a pergola for the pool area to provide us with some much needed shade from the blistering heat of summer but I think this will suffice nicely.




















Views from the upstairs window.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Day 11

Beam me up!

A lot of work done today. All the main floor beams were put into place.

This lift looked like a "fun" toy to have. Too bad it was only a rental. But it made lifting those heavy beams into place a cinch!

I think Eric finally felt left out of all the "fun" so he got his ladder out and helped.

This is the interior beam that will extend the upstairs to make room for the hallway.

With the "lift" getting the beam raised wasn't so much of a problem. The problem was in angling it just right to get in through the hole to connect outside and under the stairs. The lift only goes straight up not at an angle.

Rob got that job of physically lifting it up enough to fit through the hole.

Then they just had to match it under the stairs and put a new post underneath for support.

And voila the beam was in!

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Day 10 ~ Total days under construction ~ 22

After a four day weekend due to the holiday and the brackets still not in the framers were ready to work hard. So early Wednesday they were at it. The posts went up and the beams were put on.

The bracket that we were waiting for is the gray on that sits on top of the post holding the beam. We needed a couple of those.