New Home Week 7

This week they dropped off the brick, finished the shingles and completed the wiring.

US Nationals

Matt and I went to the US Nationals today, I managed to get some free tickets through work for the Saturday qualifying. I didn't take any pictures of the racing but this awesome 66 Nova was sitting just outside the stands.  It has a LS9 crate motor from a ZR1 and a 6 speed transmission. Inside it was all leather and had so much you could smell it standing 10 feet away.

We stayed through one round of pro qualifications and part of the sportsman qualifying, but after 5 hours of we both had seen enough.  The fuel cars as usual were a blast to watch.

New Home Week 6

This week they got some of the siding put up around the windows, the eaves trimmed and the roof ready to shingle.

Due to the slope of the lot and a miss-communication with the company that poured the basement, the brick ledge had to be re-cut so that it was lower.

They hung the garage doors this week, they are insulated and finished on the inside.

Here is a picture of the gas fired heat pump in the basement.

This is a shot of the windows in the basement with the fire escape ladders installed.

Yorkie Pup

Tania and Matty drove up to Anderson Friday and picked up a male Yorkie that is 8 weeks old. We do not yet have a name for him.

New Home Week 5

This week the big visible items are the windows installed, the exterior doors hung and the stairway to the basement installed.

New Home Week 4

Here are some progress shots from week 4. All of the flooring was installed, main floor walls put up and the roof started.

New Home Week 3

This week they sealed and insulated the outsides of the basement walls. They also brought in gravel for the basement and garage floors and poured them both yesterday.

New Home Week 2

This week they finished the walls of the basement and attached the ducts to the basement windows.

New Home

Tania and I have decided to build a home halfway between Pittsboro and Brownsburg. It's the home we were looking at and would have built had we stayed in Indiana. It was also promise I made to Tania if we moved back to Indiana. The Pulte development we are building in had 30-40 homes when we left and its now down to the last few lots. We were fortunate to get one of the last few decent lots left. It is a corner lot on the edge of the development.

The big thing about the house for us is its a ranch style home which seems to be very rare outside of extremely cheap homes or custom built. The model we chose is a "Brampton" optioned with a 3rd garage stall, extended garage, basement, 3 lane driveway. 3 bay windows, second sliding glass door in garden room and full brick wrap.

Last weekend when Tania and Matty were here we had our first builders meeting and Monday they started digging the basement. Here is a shot from the laundry room area looking towards the master bedroom showing the basement with the footings poured and the drainage tubing ran.

Here is a shot from the same spot looking through the garage area showing the footings and the rock they brought in for the driveway.

 
This shot is from in front of bedroom 2 looking back towards where the kitchen will be.

This is a shot of the same model home in the division with the brick we have chosen and a similar color scheme, our house will look very close to this when finished.

More Rain

My trip from dads house in Gering NE to moms in Enid Ok was uneventful, lots of sunshine and open Kansas roads.After spending a great day with my mom on Thursday I was up at 4:30 am Friday to make the final 755 mile leg to Indianapolis.

About 60 miles west of St Louis it started to rain and it poured for the next 170 miles to Terre Haute, IN where the weather cleared up in time for me to sit at a construction zone for 40 minutes. After losing an hour to a time zone change I made it to the long term hotel in Indianapolis 11 minutes before they closed at 7pm.