Month: July 2025 (Page 2 of 2)

This Saturday we sent to the site in the early morning to do our weekly pulling of invasives. To our surprise, we found a crew working on putting shingles on the roof. It looks like they started on Friday and will finish today. Here is a picture showing the roofing in progress.

On Wednesday they poured the foundation for the garage. The will add the garage basement walls this coming week. There is not really a basement under the garage, at least no space that will be accessible. I guess I will see what it looks like next week. Anyway, here is what it looks like now.

Inside the house, I noticed that they have finally placed the last interior wall. Specifically, the slanted wall between the master bathroom and the game room. Here is a picture from the porch. A few things to notice – they have a sunken area in the floor for the master shower (just behind the new wall). And if you look at the ceiling you will see a paper plate marking the location of one of the lights (more on that below).

Next Tuesday we will visit the site to do the electrical walk through evaluating (and adjusting) the locations for all switches and lights (and maybe plugs). They have already started to mark the locations for lights and switches. You can see one of the lights in the picture above. Here is Joel’s computer corner in the living room where you can see switches marked.

I have a short construction video of the pouring of the garage foundation.

I also have video of the roofing work from Friday but I am holding that back for another post. I do not normally record any video on Saturday or Sunday, but when I saw them working this morning I turned on Saturday recording. Tomorrow I will grab that footage and put together a video showing the roofing work.

Earlier this week they put in the framing for the supports for the garage foundation. The concrete will be poured tomorrow. The larger square is the original footprint of the garage. We then added an extension (called the “shed”) on the side towards the house, where we will store things like the tables and chairs for parties on the deck.

They have also finished the framing of the porch. The exterior openings will be large screens. There will be windows and a door between the game room and the porch. The area under the porch will be left open, and is where we will store the boats.

Here is the latest view of the waterfront. The water is way down, and people in our neighborhood community are complaining that the Conantum common dock is no longer useful for getting their boats into the river.

Here is an updated schedule.

• Roof trim is complete
• Roofing starts on July 9
• Windows will be installed the weeks of July 14 and July 21
• The basement slab will be poured as soon as the windows are done
• The siding will be installed starting the week of Aug 4
• Garage footing will be poured on July 10
• Garage foundation will be poured during the week of July 14
• Garage framing will be starts two days after the foundation is poured

On July 14th we do the electrical walkthrough, where we evaluate the placement of all lights, plugs, switches, Ethernet ports, and telephone ports. On July 21st we do the blocking walkthrough, where we identify the location for everything that gets attached to the walls, like coat racks, towel racks, toilet paper holders, floating shelves, etc. Basically anything where we need to add supports in the walls (so the screws go into real wood and not just plaster).

As of Wednesday morning, every interior wall has been framed except the wall between the bathroom and the game room. I assume by the time you read this, that wall will be finished. In addition, the porch is partially framed. Also, they dug out the place for the garage foundation.

Here is an interior picture. This was taken at the front door looking at the front hall. You can see the stairs up the second floor on the left side and the living room wall just past the stairs. Going from the stairs towards the right are the guest bathroom, the place where there will be stairs down to the basement, and the laundry room. Across from the laundry room (against the front of the house) is the front hall closet.

Here is the river side of the house showing the progress on the porch. Our neighbor has been trying to convince us that we do not need screens, but after discussing it with the builder and architect, we are going to stick with built-in screens. Making them removable would add more cross bars and shrink the windows a little.

Finally, here is the garage location. You can see they have dug out the place where the foundation will be added.

There will be no construction camera videos this week because if the dreaded SD card error (I have thrown out that memory card, but I have been getting a lot of those errors.) There will also be no weekend update because of the long weekend.