We Have Heat!

The furnace has been installed and the ductwork is in process. Next week, the A/C unit for the first floor will be added, and once the drywall is installed, the house will be ready to move in. Well, the downstairs. Mostly. Okay, it'll still need work. But the house will have regulatable temperature! Hooray! I'll post photos soon. My camera isn't working at the moment.

Foundation is done and Basement is ready for utilities!

The old cistern with new sewerpipe above.

Basement stairs

New sewerpipe.

The new foundation under the front of the house.

Ditto.

The support under the front room which is helping to level the floor above.

Below the basement stairs.

Plumbing!

Drywall in my Kitchen!!!!

Leveling the second floor

Chuck and Chad spent the day today leveling the floor above the living room.

Reviewing the situation.



Parts are leveled, with more yet to go.

Checking the level with a laser level.

It will never be perfect, but it's definitely better.

Mom observing the work.

Lifting the floors with jacks.

Insulation

Upstairs, Downstairs

These are the plans for my house.

Continued progress

Insulation was placed in the kitchen walls to keep the room warm, even when the rest of the house is unheated as yet.

The new pantry closet in the kitchen is now framed in. :)

Dad, Chad and Mom in the kitchen looking at the pantry closet.

The new downstairs shower stall. It's 48" wide with two seats on either side. I can't wait!

This is the plan that we had drawn up yesterday at Home Depot for the kitchen layout. The only change to this plan is that the utility/pantry closet shown in the upper right corner will have a 45% corner instead of the 90% angled corner it shows in the picture, in order to make sitting at the island breakfast bar more comfortable and to have better traffic flow (Does this fit well with Feng Shuy? I think so.).

More work has been done on the siding. You can also see light shining from the inside, which comes from the new ceiling fixtures Chad has wired in the back rooms. I'll be moving into the three back rooms of the house--the kitchen, the back office (my bedroom for now), and the bathroom--at the beginning of the year, and Chad and Chuck worked all day yesterday inside. I'll take more pictures as soon as possible. The camera died after this photo, so I wasn't able to take any more yesterday.