At the urging of Caleb, we went out and took some pictures today and are updating the blog although it was a busy evening with Ian's birthday party.

A lot has happened to our house remodel over the last couple of weeks. They have finished the new walls, the rough wiring and heating along with hanging the sheetrock. To the right, is a picture of the front of the house with the addition. The white is sytrafoam where they are getting ready to stucco the house this coming week. In the below close up of the front of the house, there will be rock were the external walls are black.

The old kitchen cabinets are being stored on the front porch as we plan to put them in the garage when it is finished.

The next picture is from a shot of the garage from the old garage back door into the kitchen. The left of the picture is the addition to the garage. The floor is a couple of feet lower than the old garage.

This is a view of the new front room on the south side of the house where we have new french doors that have blinds inside of the glass panels.

The next picture is a picture looking east from the old master bedroom showing the siting room that we are adding on to it. There is a door on the east side that connects to the wrap around front door.

You can see that they have hung the sheet rock and begun to tape the joints.

The old middle guest room has been expanded to include the old hallway, so that it will be bigger than before. We have also had ethernet and cable TV wired into this room.

The remainder of the old front room will be a den/office. The refridgerator is temporarily in the office while we endure the construction.

This is a picture from the kitchen looking at towards the north at the new great room. There will be a row of closets along the east wall and the old sliding glass door has been move to the new north wall of the house.

This is a picture looking at the west wall of the great room. There will be a gas fire place in the corner between the doors and the small window. Cable TV, the internet and wiring for surround sound have been put in. The TV will be along the north wall to the right of the small window.

This is a picture just inside the front door. The the right of this picture is the new front room. This picture shows a nitch that has been put in above the new stairs that go downstairs along the wall on the right side of the picture. Behind the nitch is a new coat closet that will have a switch inside to control the outlets outside in the eves that are for the Christmas lights.


Here is another picture looking at the new front room from just inside the front door. In front of the french doors are boxes of joint compound for the sheet rock seams.

Below is a picture of the new stairs from the basement looking up towards the front of the house.

This is a picture of the storage area underneath the new wrap around front porch. Notice it is full of our household belongings right now.

This is picture of the new basement room underneath the new front room looking into the storage area underneath the porch.

Finally, here is where the old basement stairs where. The cable TV and ethernet connect box is shown on the right. Both walls need to remain as they are bearing walls, so this will be a storage area and also contain the new second furnace/air conditioning unit.




This week ought to be interesting as they should start to stucco the outside of the house, hang the sheet rock in the garage and finish the inside sheet rock joints, so they can begin to paint and lay the floor tile next week.

Well, we had another interesting and productive week with the house remodel. Jill and the crew came by to check things out on Monday. The highlight was when we went downstairs and looked at the new storage area under the porch. We had to have a flashlight to see anything, but with the flashlight out we made spooky sounds. Dallin and Daniel had fun scaring Kemry and Ian. They all voted that we leave the space empty so they could play in it. They finished puting the walls up on the addition to the garage.

They also stayed late and worked on the new roof. Below is a picture of the great room wall.

They also began taking off the shingles on the back side of the house.

Here is a picture of the back of the new great room.

This is a picture of the front of our house before they put the roof on the front addition.

Another picture of the front of the house. The first joist of the front roof was raised.

Here is picture of the beginging of the front roof.

This is a picture of the roof over the garage.

By mid week they finished the roof over the front addition.

By Wednesday evening, the roof framing over the garage was up.

Thursday while we served in the Temple, a record rain fall came down that lasted about an hour with 15 minutes being unusally hard. Blaine said that at work one of his roof gutters was out twenty or thirty feet. Even though our roof was not finished, nothing got wet inside our existing house even though the shingles were off. They builders had enough of the roof finish with tar paper over it and plastic covering the rest of the roof where it was not. The garage was soaked. All of the sheet rock was off of the roof of the garage and laying on the cement soaked. We felt really blessed to make it through this unusual storm.

The picture below was from Thursday evening. Blaine came over and used Mom's camera to take pictures of some tires that were given him. A couple of days later, they were sold via Craig's list.

Friday, the house looked like this.

On Friday, they had the shingles delivered and they will start shingling the roof on Monday.

The roof over the garage was finished on Friday.

On Saturday, the worked on putting the wood on the gables. They almost finished the garage area. We also had Kim, Jedd, Zach, Robyn, Haley, Emmy and Luke helping us move most of our stuff on the main floor to the basement. We now only have our bed and desk in our bedroom and the bed and computer desk in the guest room on the main floor.

Work continued at a fast pace on our new additions to our house. Below is a picture of Mario, one of the hard workers. He is taking off the old trim in the front of the house so that they can begin framing the new front room area. Here is a picture looking out of our old front room windows which were removed after this. On Friday, the space where the windows were was covered with sheet rock.

Here is picture of the floor of the new great room addition as it looked at the beginning of the week.

The heating and air conditioning person came and marked the places where he wants to put new vents in the great room.

They then began to frame the walls of the new front room and cover them with wood.

You can see that they have the wall covered on the east side of the great room partially against the old garage. They then started to put up some of the roof joists for the great room.

Below, you can see that the new front room walls were framed and covered with wood.

They also began to frame the addition to the garage. In the back, you can see the part of the roof that was built last week over the great room.

Below is a picture of our existing stairs to the basement that will eventually be removed.

The above stairs will be replaced with these new stairs that will be just inside the new front door area.

Below is a picture looking down at what will become the new wrap around porch. They put metal down that will hold up the cement and become part of the porch when the concrete drys.

They also put the subroofing on part of the roof of the new great room and put in temporary braces to hold the walls up until all of the roof and walls are tied together.

By the end of the week, the new third car garage was framed and covered with wood siding. The great room addition was framed and also covered. Part of the new roof over the great room was also covered with subroofing.

The new front room was framed and covered. The new basement room was also framed and the stairs were roughed in. This next week ought to also show great progress. They plan to pour the cement for the new porch and take off a large part of the existing roof so that they can install the new roof joists and cover it with wood.

This last week began with the new foundations and walls poured. This is a picture from our front door showing the new basement in front of the existing living room. You can also see the door that will go into the cold storage room under the new porch that will be pored.The next picture is from the sliding glass door off of our dining area. You can see the walls for the crawl space for the new great room on the left. To the right, you can see a little of the wall for the new garage that is being added to the existing garage

Robyn and Zach came by to see what was going on last Sunday evening and Haley and Emmy just could not resist climbing the dirt pile. By the end of this week, they had taken away 14 dump trucks full of dirt.

On monday, they came and sprayed the foundation with a water proofing coating. Marla said that it only took about 10 minutes to do. They also began to get to pour the cement floor for the basement and the new garage.

The excuvators also came and backfilled around the new foundation and walls plus removed a few more dump truck loads of dirt. Jill drove by to see the progress and much to Dallin and Daniel's dismay, the dirt pile was gone and they could no longer climb on it. What a disappointment!!!

The digger is backfilling around the crawl space for the new great room. In the front of the picture, you can see the walls for the new garage.

When they poured the basement floor, they used the doorway that they cut in our basement family room for access so they had some place to go when they finished.

Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, they began work on the great room floor.

This coming week they will finish the floors and start on the walls. It is moving along pretty good.