Archive for April, 2007

Basement framing done

We finished the basement framing yesterday.  It looks really good.  I have 1 bedroom/office, 1 closet just off the stairs, big utility closet, a walk in closet, and a 15 by 21 media room.  Everything that I could want in a basement.  The basement is around 860 square feet.  I took plenty of pictures.  Just click on [...]


New pictures – basement done

I have added some new pictures of the house.  The basement floor is done along with the garage floor.   The plan is to start putting the floor in this weekend.  We probably won’t get a good start on it until Sunday because I am doing a Relay for Life on Friday night and Saturday morning.  [...]


started building some walls

The basement isn’t done yet.  It is expected to be done this week.  Since it was nice today we decided to get a head start by building some walls.  Really we didn’t build the whole walls but we got the headers made and the wall area for the windows.   They are sitting in my parents [...]


Basement walls are up!

The walls are up in the basement.  They took the forms off yesterday.  It looks really good.  9 foot high concrete walls looks impressive.  Today it is raining and there is a chance of rain all week so there won’t be much progress over at the house.  Check out the new pictures in the picture [...]


Basement Walls

The basement walls are going up today.  They are suppose to pour the concrete but I’m not sure if they still will because of the cold weather and freeze warning tonight.  I’ll let everyone know later when I go down there.  I’ll also take some more pictures when I’m home to share.  Again check out [...]


Basement started

They started my basement last week.  I have a big hole and they poured the footings.  The weather here has been changing from sun to rain and now later this week it is suppose to drop into the 40s.  So I’m sure that the progress will slow as they hold off for weather.  I’m really [...]