Month: May 2025

Here is a picture from today.

The white pipe is for all the downspouts. Every downspout from the roof goes directly into a white pipe and all the white pipes merge together into a dry well at the corner of the house.

The green tube is the drain system, which goes all around the house to handle any ground water. The drain system then has its own outlet away from the house.

They are also adding in gravel all around the house, and tomorrow they will do the rest of the back filling to bring the ground up to its original grade. Next week, they will put in the posts.

Since this is Wednesday, we had our weekly meeting. Most of this weeks session was meeting the electrician and our EMF consultant and discussing plans for the electrical design. But we also reviewed the tile selection for the bathroom and decided that we would have a painted bathroom ceiling and not put on a stone veneer.

Unfortunately, I am sorry to announce that we moved one wall of the master bathroom shower by six inches, making the shower slightly smaller. This was because of the standard sizing of the shower components we had picked out. Fortunately, the shower got smaller not bigger, since they have already sized the hole in the main floor to put the shower base. Shrinking the hole a little is OK.

This week, they put in the deck, which is the top of the basement on which the first floor will sit. I have two pictures for you. First the desk installation in progress from Friday, then the deck completed on Saturday morning.

We can now walk “into” the house and see what the view will look like from the first floor. If you are curious, here is the view. The river level is down from earlier in the year and the plants have not filled in the wet lands yet this season. That’s Daphne in the lower-right corner since today was another day of removing invasives.

No construction video this week. The first three days were boring since all the work was inside the basement. And the last two days were lost because the camera ran out of batteries.

Next week more back filling as they bring the ground back to its original level all around the house and finish putting in the foundation drain system. Then they will put in the basement support posts and start putting in the posts outside the house that will support the deck and porch.