Walls

We try to get a few walls done each evening after work.

(front door)

Framing Walls

Framing the walls of the first floor began today.  We got 11 walls built and put into place!

Lots of helpers today raising the walls.  Booths, Waltons, and Grandpa Grow, and Grandma Grow photographed us.

Floorboards on

First floor floorboards are all on!

TJI's

All the TJI's and rimboard are now in place.  Tomorrow we will finish up the blocking.

Crawl Space Insulation

We hired a company to come do the 2" crawl space insulation.  It was a matter of, buying the insulation was almost the same cost as hiring this company to come install it.  Sometimes the products are hard to find, and therefore, cost more to do it yourself.

TJI layout

Today was spent doing the floor joist layout, and carrying a bunch of TJI's into place...  We were rained out on 3 separate occassions.  Rare for Utah to get hail and downpours like this in June!

Just to make it known that it is possible, a man and woman were able to carry and put these all into place.  Some were 40' in length.   They look heavy, but it was more awkward than heavy.

Pony Walls

The pony walls in the crawl space have begun and were finished today.  These were not fun.  It wasn't as simple as building walls ontop of the footings, unfortunately.  The footing/foundation guys don't go to a lot of effort to make these footings level.  There are dips, and as you build the pony walls, you really have to go to great effort to make sure they are level with your mud sill around the perimeter of the home.

Mud Sill

Mud sill is on, bolts are tightened down.

Foundation Drain

I never want to shovel gravel again in my life.
Today we as a family put in the foundation drain.  Since we have piles of dirt around the perimeter of the house, there was no way to get a tractor around the house to dump gravel.  This meant, we shoveled 5 gallon buckets of gravel...and dumped them on the 4" foundation drain pipe.

Based on my calculations we shoveled 300 buckets full.
Which is 15,000 pounds.
Which is about 2/3 of a dump truck full.
Scott carried ev ery single bucket.

It took us 6 full hours.  It was so much work.  So so so much work.  We are pooped.

Waterproofing

The black gunk was sprayed today

Foundation Forms Off

Foundation Poured

Foundation Forms

Foundation forms going up today. Inspection tomorrow morning, pouring walls tomorrow afternoon.

Footings Poured

Footings

Footings being set up

Elevation

Back to the county to get a revision on our elevation.  We were going to be a little "low" in the ground, so I had to get permission to raise our TOW (foundation height).  All stamped...ready to continue.

Surveyor

Marking out where the walls go in the excavated pit...

Septic Delivery

 1750 gallon septic - which is ginormous.  

No idea why the county required such a large tank.

Excavating

Excavation selfie

Permit issued!

Cabinets

We've completed the laundry room and kitchen cabinets!

(we're kind of going in backwards order)

Well

The well digging has been a LONG process.  And a messy one...

We mud drilled so we could have an all steel well, so if we need to go deeper in the future we can.

They drilled through a heck of a lot of cobble, and a heck of a lot of clay.

Finally found an aquifer, hallelujah.

Our well is 155' deep.

Well drilling has been so stressful.  You pay by the foot... (about $70/foot)