Monday, August 4, 2008

We have a floor!




It took a while this morning to finish up little odds and ends like nailing in the rest of the BCI blocking and cutting a few more crush blocks, but once we started laying down the OSB decking we just flew! The advantage of building a small house I guess! We also applied the Bituthene to the exterior of the foundation. It's a super sticky tar-like-substance backing a thick waterproof membrane. This is what will seal the whole foundation from moisture. It's a pain to handle, but makes everything look so nice and uniform. We'll be moving down to the other job for a bit. My dad is under contract with a woman to build a house on one of the two remaining lots my parents have on Forest Glen. We finished the foundation and framed up the walls a few weeks ago and have been waiting for the dirt guy to backfill and lay down the gravel pad so that we can pour the slab for the attached garage. Of course he wasn't able to move down there until he was done with our site and he was delayed for a bit because of all the rain we had. It's difficult to split time between two houses because I just want to keep going on our own house, but it's also exciting to finish something on the other house and feel that much more confident and excited to tackle it again. We'll probably stay down on Forest Glen until we have the trusses set and roof on. Matt's back on Wednesday night, so we'll be a three person crew again and able to move that much faster.

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