After the foundation was complete the decking and subfloor went in. The footprint looks kind of small. I know that sound ridiculous considering the picture of Noah taken from one corner of the house to the other, but considering everything that needs to go in there it looks small. We’ve been assured that will change…
We like to try to get out of the apartment whenever possible. We’ve always loved fairs, so we thought we’d check out the South Carolina State Fair in Columbia. Allison’s mom came for a visit so we all jumped in the car and drove down there. It took a little over an hour and turned out…
Mid-way through September they finally got started on the foundation. We’re going to have a crawl space so they build the brick and block up directly from the footers. One of the final steps in the construction process will be to do a final level of the ground beneath the house and the installation of…
When we got back from Disney we had to go by the lot to see if any progress had been made. We knew when we left that we were close to getting the permits, but we weren’t sure if anything would be done or not. We were happy to see that we’d received the illusive…
We were still waiting for work to get started on the house again, but it was time to head to Disney World for the week of Labor Day. Allison and I both love Disney World. We both swear that we’d live there if we could and we’re hoping that the boys end up loving it…
Not much happened after the lot was cleared. There was a huge backlog at the permit office so nothing moved for about a month while we waited to make sure that we passed the perc test. We’re going to have a septic system so this was the last test before we could get our building permit….
This is a sequence of pictures that shows the lot clearing process starting from a point where there was no clearing done at all. This will be the first in a number of posts that will come pretty quickly. I’m going to try to get caught up to the present. Our builder had a rough…
Welcome everyone! I’m going to start this blog by attempting to document the construction of our new home in Lake Wylie South Carolina. I would suspect that, based on previous attempts, the posts are going to be someone sporadic … but you never know. I’m also going to try to use it to keep everyone updated…
