Progress: Week 2

In the flurry of activity that is our house, I have been negligent in posting updates. Week 2 of our project was actually last week (Oct 5-9), and I'm just now getting around to posting photos from then. I hope to do this week's update later today or tomorrow, mostly because the rain predicted for the next few days will likely bring the work to a halt until next week.


Week 2 was part demolition / part construction. We got rid of about 1/3 of our asbestos siding, tore up what will be the entry / play room (and found our first "surprise" there), and finished gutting the cottage. On the construction side of things the contractor started the floor and wall framing for the sunroom / family room and the cottage received new plumbing and a new closet / bathroom configuration.

Trench for family room footings

Oliver loves having "bulldozers" in his yard

 

Waste concrete from the back patio

 

Concrete for the family room footings

 

Concrete for the front porch pier footings

Side and part of back without asbestos siding

 

 Tyvek-ing the side

Side "storage room" before demo. We're not sure what

this room was used for but it definitely felt like a hunting lodge.

Side room part way through demo.

Surprise, its not slab-on-grade!

When the plumbers were trenching through the concrete to lay the plumbing and waste line (above), they discovered that the slab at the side entry room was actually suspended over a small but inacessable crawl space--not poured on grade as we originally thought (well, 1/3 of it was on grade; its the part furthest from where the photo was taken). This turned out to be good fortune as we can now provide heat and air conditioning through the underfloor space where we had previously struggled to figure out a way to condition it. After the plumbing and ductwork are installed we'll backfill the crawl space with gravel and finish the floor with radiant heated concrete.