by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 20, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
The back patio and walkway are in! The crew dug the holes for the footings last week and yesterday they laid the forms. This morning the cement truck came and they poured and smoothed out the surface. Gorgeous. This crew does beautiful concrete work. (Can concrete be...
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 6, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
The builders—waiting for it to stop snowing in April—installed a makeshift staircase from the basement to the main floor yesterday. Alana says they look like “the depths of hell.” Truth be told, it was a little scary for Samson to climb them. But better...
by Alison Moore Smith | Apr 5, 2010 | Design Your Own House, for Home
In order to meet code, we had to screw straps through the base floor and into the floor trusses with the end attached to the cement wall panels. This was completed today.
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 8, 2010 | Contest, Design Your Own House, for Home
If you're looking for great advice from a home construction expert, look no further than Todd Fratzel of the Home Construction & Improvement blog. Todd is the principal engineer for a large design-build firm and his expertise is oozing from his posts. He writes...
