The weather held on Wednesday and Thursday and good progress was made on the framing. On Wednesday the geothermal loop was installed – or some guys showed up and dug up the side yard just for fun!

If the schedule holds, framing will be complete on Saturday and the windows will be installed on Monday. Then on with the mechanical’s! It is very nice to see progress every day – but this will not last long.

After a washout early on Monday sent the framining crew home, Tuesday brought good progress.  As the pics show the first floor is sheathed and house wrapped, the front rooms on the second floor have walls, the garage has rafters and the porches are taking shape.  The wet weather has further delayed installation of the geothermal lateral lines (in the field).  Its starting to look like a house!

Thursday was a washout with storms moving in just after the framers got going.  On Friday they finished framing the garage walls, added the joists for the second floor and got some sheathing up on the walls.   They are scheduled to complete the framing late this week – but they will likely be finishing up early next week.  Also scheduled for this week is installation of the geothermal loop – they will be trenching in the pipes.  I have completed sourcing the plumbing lines and the tubs and showers so everything will be ready for installation at the appropriate time.

More progress was made framing the first floor, although yesterday the framers were driven away by the rain after a few hours. We are still in the mode where there is visible progress every day!  The pictures show the progress.