Lisa & Adam Goldberg Deer Hill Blog #7

Hello All:

Its been a little over 2 weeks and a lot has happened. 

We have had the foundation waterproofed, a lot of drainage installed, our conduits for our electric, cable & telephone run from the house to the street, temporary electric installed, the foundation has been backfilled and so much more. 

Lisa and I went to New Hampshire to work on our Timber Frame.  That was really fun.  We got to plane our  beams, sand, router and apply a coat of conditioner to them.  We have some great pictures.  I spent 2 days and Lisa spent 1 day at Brooks' shop. 

While we where gone the basement to our house got frames as well as the deck got built for the 1st floor.  This is needed so Brooks & Co. can install the Timber Frame.  Besides all of that, a lot of the items that we have ordered from Direct Buy have come in so we are busy picking those up as well.  We are still in the process of finalizing our lighting and plumbing fixtures.  That will be done this week.  Also our windows and doors will get ordered this week. 

It is actually starting to look like a house.  Brooks is coming Tuesday to put up the post & beam,  Anyone in the neighborhood is welcome to come over and watch the installation.  It should be pretty cool.  They will be here Tuesday though Friday.  I may have to send another email because of all of the pictures.  Well here it goes.

11/2/09 - Drain for our gutters.	11/2/09 - One pipe is for the gutters	11/2/09 - These are the pipes that take all of the water into the woods.	11/3/09 - You can see some waterproofing
11/3/09 - Backfill around the North side of the house.	11/4/09 - Our walk out basement is backfilled!!!	11/4/09 - Look at all of those rocks. That's our garage backfilled.	11/4/09 - They filled our basement with stone
11/5/09 - Our garage is filled.	11/5/09 - We were supposed to have a swale for the water to run down	11/5/09 - End of pipe run.	11/6/09 - Now our garage is filled with stone.
11/7/09 - I am drinking my organic chocolate milk in my basement.	11/7/09 - here we are standing in our garage with "The Oz"	11/8/09 - Lisa digging a trench for the plumbing	11/8/09 - Lisa saying "hey Adam why am I doing all the work?
11/8/09 - So here I am helping to dig the plumbing trenches.	11/8/09 - Lisa watching me work. Satisfaction.	11/8/09 - Peter joins in the fun. He gets fancy with a between the legs throws.	11/9/09 - The rough plumbing has been put down
11/9/09 - Another picture of the rough plumbing in the slab.	11/10/09 - The wire mesh and plastic for the slab	11/10/09 - The beginning of the pouring of the slab.	11/10/09 - Here we go with the concrete again.
11/10/09 - Looking good. The slab is underway.	11/10/09 - The sono tubes for the porch.	11/10/09 - What a pretty slab	11/10/09 - The line in the middle is a zip strip
11/10/09 - Our engineered wood is getting delivered for the decking to be built.	11/10/09 - Oops. Wipe out	11/10/09 - The load is about to be dropped in our garage.	11/10/09 - More drainage going in.
11/11/09 - We are "out of the ground" Yea!!!	11/11/09 - That is the main structural beam of the house.	11/11/09 - This is the cement fixture for our transformer	11/11/09 - These are the conduit runs for the cable, electric & telephone
11/11/09 - Wood/Lolly columns for our basement and decking.	11/11/09 - The framing begins.