Getting Sealed Up...

We are almost "in" as they say in the construction world- which means that we have walls and a roof. That really means about 1/3 (at best) of the way to a finished home.
As I have been taking on some of the framing, elbows allowing( pneumatic nail guns are brutal to the body) we are getting all of the walls in place as well as out ROOF! We used a new type of roof underlayment- it's plastic like rather than tar paper- holds up better. Just in time, as the weather is showing us a preview of what is to come- rain, some colder days and the beginning of Fall.
If our bodies hold up a few more months we will be well on our way into a new home. Good thing for that hot tub..

Pics of the "new house" as we don't have a good name for it yet.

Facing East

From the Road

Kodiak's room

Calle Serena View w. Lobster

Looking out to the Sangres

Bedroom and part of the mud room(right)

Looking into the living room from the bath.

Looks like a house now..

We had some awesome help from Sasha and Cedar~ Thanks guys, the sheathing looks great!
So it's August (!) and we are s l o w l y moving along.. we finished putting up the TJI's on one side of the roof today, in the wind(of course).
And onwards- hopefully we will have a covered roof by the end of this week!
Here's a link to a panoramic view- you can click and drag the mouse to see all around- it's pretty cool. 
http://360.io/vs7wXp

and to pictures...

Atlas, the Crane Truck, Helping Hands and Nail Guns.

So the framing goes slowly, but it goes. A few hiccups later, we have finished the exterior framing and set the beam and are finishing the interior framing(minimal). Thanks to laboring friends (Joseph!) and very handy crane trucks (Atlas), as well as expert crane operators (Christian) this phase is almost done. As we move into August (yikes), we have just a few more things to do (wink wink). By the next post the house will look radically different, with sheathing and a roof!

FRAMING!

This is always a fun part of house building, as you can now actually see the house from the road... slow going but I will keep posting some pics as we move along. 

 And this is the new K-shack site- ready for visitors! You can see the new house going up behind it.

Then we moved the K-Shack...

It really is starting to feel like a crazy board game, where you move buildings, containers, fences and other homely structures from a to b or maybe c. "Yeah, lets just move this thing over here, or over here- oh... it weighs a few tons, no problem!"
The container moved a few weeks ago, now the k-shack, Again I have to commend my partner, Christian for such an amazing job of forklifting and crane trucking talent. Without the guts and the mad skills he has with heavy machinery this would have been a disaster. I'll let the pictures tell the story, needless to say I have a few less fingernails to bite, but the k-shack (named after Ted Kaczynski, as he lived in something as small) is now in its new location, ready for a batch of new visitors!

We have a slab!

After two days of hot hard work, three full truck loads of concrete, ten awesome crew, we have a slab!

Did I mention it was hot, and windy? 

Cheers to all that made it happen- we are now "out of the ground". This is what it looks like:

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SLAB TIME

We are finally ready to pour the slab- which if all goes well, will happen next week. We passed our first inspection- Plumbing. Waiting on Foundation inspection...If the super crazy wind does not pick up all our handy work and disperse it all over the mesa- like it did the hot tub- we are going to be ok. May the wind be gone and may we have some rain all ready~ Inshallah

Watch out, we are getting Out of the Ground!