by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 14, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
After trying most flooring surfaces known to man, including carpet, laminate, ceramic tile, natural stone tile, and hardwood, we decided our new custom home would have polished concrete on the main floor and stained concrete in the basement. After extensive discussion...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 12, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
The trench around the french drain was filled with gravel and fill dirt was brought around to the front of the house to fill in around the foundation. It look like an entrance now. The slope from the sidewalk isn't nearly as steep as it seemed it would be. On the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 9, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
Five window wells were installed today. Brad got some great prices for us. He found one, very deep window well that was damaged on the bottom, so he bought it for half price and cut off the damage for the size we needed. Then the supply store gave him the rest at...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 9, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
Yesterday our builder spread tar over the stucco on the concrete panels. They are preparing to finish off the french drains and then backfill the dirt piles into the trenches. They also did some excavation in the driveway area. Now that we put the garages in the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 8, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home, Yea Big
It's been over three months since the tubing for the basement radiant floor hydronic heating was installed. Today sheeting was put down and the tubing for the main floor radiant was put in place. Later Sam took the boys to see the progress and spend some grand time...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 7, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
Before moving the enormous dirt pile from the back of the house to the front—and filling in the mote around the front porch—the basement concrete panels were covered with stucco. Unlike typical building materials, stucco can be applied directly to the aerated concrete...
