I thought as we are about half-way through our house build, I’d share an update.
We moved to Colorado on September 21st, in time to see them break ground on our new house. Since then, we’ve visited the build every day to watch it grow and capture pictures on progress.
It’s really been amazing to see each stage, we are really enjoying watching the house come along, but in truth we just want it finished now so we can move in.
The projected date of completion is end of February, so we are guessing we will be moving in sometime in March (hopefully).
The phases (up to now) have been:
- Dig big hole! (the house is two story, but it’s a finished basement and first floor – they call them “patio homes” here).
- Pour foundations.
- Add forms and pour sides of basement.
- Paint basement walls with waterproof “stuff”.
- Add plumbing that will be below the floating basement floor (and connect to sewer).
- Add framing for floating floor.
- Pour floating floor.
- Frame the house – this includes the first floor, all walls and the roof.
- Install heating and air-conditioning – this is called HVAC and consists of the furnace and all ducting around the house.
- Install all plumbing – pipes and waste to all bathrooms and the laundry room.
- Wrap house – this involves adding a waterproof “wrap” on all the walls the roof.
- Pour cement driveway, front porch and patio.
- Install windows and doors.
- Add siding – this depends on the type of look you purchased, our options were “Colorado”, “Cottage” and “Farmhouse”. I liked Colorado, but Lisa liked Farmhouse, so we got Farmhouse.
- Install all electrical wiring, this includes 110v’s to all lights and outlets, 220v’s to laundry room and kitchen and garage and all lower voltage cabling for internet (yes there was a LOT of that).
- Add roof – this was delayed as there is a shortage of roof shingle, but it came in on Monday, they started the roof on Wednesday and finished Friday.
That’s where we are!
The next step is we have a pre-drywall walkthrough (scheduled for Thursday 14th), after that it’s drywall, cabinets, bathrooms, flooring, lighting etc. and of course paint the outside of the house and finish the front with brickwork.
To try and share the progress to date, I created this animated gif. But it’s really big, so give it some time to load (can take a minute to download), if it doesn’t work let me know lol.
