Basement – Huron The Lake

Coming Together

The house is starting to come together, as we work on the interior. Started plumbing and electrical. Before we got to that though, we framed in the attic space on the two sides of the second floor. (There is no attic above the great room and office.) Unlike the attic space in the house weContinue reading “Coming Together”

Lots of Progress

Hello everyone. Sorry for such a long delay in posts. It’s not due to lack of progress, rather than a bunch of illness in our house through the month of June. Thankfully the one actually building the house was spared. First thing, we finished shingling the roof. I didn’t take any pictures of that asContinue reading “Lots of Progress”

A Floor With a View

Progress is happening fairly fast now. First off, sorry this hasn’t been a weekly blog. Between some late nights and long days building the house and time spent trying to get my bookkeeping business going, I don’t always have the capacity to write this blog on a schedule. So until things calm down this isContinue reading “A Floor With a View”

A Little Help From Our Friends

We got a basement floor, with help, this week. The best concrete day to date, but I’m still not a fan of concrete day. But before concrete could go in, we had to prepare the floor for the concrete. This involved getting in 5 trucks of 2-inch crushed stone to go between the bedrock andContinue reading “A Little Help From Our Friends”

Continuing the Basement

We need to finish the basement (which was planned to be a crawlspace) before we can get to the first floor. Since we don’t want an uneven floor in the basement we have to plan to have two levels with a couple of steps between them. Hence the building of this small cinderblock wall. ThisContinue reading “Continuing the Basement”