Roof - Pre-Raise

St. Claire College in Windsor did all the prefab for the walls and roof.  Not exactly sure why they're doing the roof first, but hey, i'm not a contractor! :)

My lovely wife baked like a mad woman to give the folks from St. Claire's a very filling snack or two.  she baked 17 loaves (or loafs, not sure which it is..) of flavoured bread, lots of muffins and cookies... we brought over some fruit as well if they don't want a sugar high.  Helina's been plowing through these sweat equity hours with all her baking.  We still have a LONG way to go, buti'm sure we can find a way to build them up.

Jeremiah was quite cute when we went to the lot... he sat on the roof of the car waving to

 everyone,  When he saw the guys IN the roof building, he yelled "HEY, YOU GOTTA CLIMB OUT OF THERE!!"

we've finally found out which house will be ours, when you look straight on the front of the house, ours will be on the right.  VERY pumped.  We haven't had too much interaction with our neighbours to be, but they seem like very cool people, and I think w

e have a bit in common from what i've experienced with them.  Can't wait to move in! won't be long now... the blitz build starts in two weeks! That will be a crazy busy/crazy exhausting/crazy fun two weeks!

 

Subfloors - CHECK

was scheduled to work on Sunday at the build site, I was very excited to get going on the build as I haven’t yet done anything with the house. Sure enough, I get a call on Saturday night, saying “no need to come on Sunday, they got everything done” 

  WONDERFUL

 I was definitely looking forward to going to the build site, but at the same time, how could you not be excited that there is progress on your new home?!

 It’s only 3 weeks away from the Blitz Build, which will be absolutely INTENSE! I’ve booked off two weeks from work so I can work every day and build my sweat equity hours.  Helina has been baking snacks for the work site, which also counts towards our sweat equity. I think that will be the hardest thing during this build, is managing to get all our hours in. between Helina and I, we need to do 300 hours of sweat equity.  

Here’s what is going to happen during the blitz build… it takes place from June 13^th to June 27^th.

•          Raising Exterior Walls
  
•          Building Floors
  
•          Raising the Roof (whoop whoop)
  
•          Plumbing
  
•          Electrical
  
•          Dry Walling
  
•          Painting
  
•          Flooring
  
•          Trim Work
  
•          Kitchen Cabinets
  
•          Siding
  
•          Bricking
  

 Basically what this tells me,  is that we’re going to build an entire house in 14 days.

 More to come… 

We Have A Basement!

Foundation... IN!

So we're uber excited to see the foundation has been poured, the barriers are on, and we're... so far... ahead of schedule.  We're not sure yet which house will be ours, it is a semi, and its attached at the garage.  We've met our neighbours already, and I think we'll get along great with them. they're about the same age as us, and they have 4 young kids.

I just can't wait to actually get on the site and start helping with the build!  There's not much for us to do as the foundation was being poured.  They are currently building all the walls in Windsor, and will be trucking them up for about the middle of June. Thats when all the fun's gonna happen! :)

Helina and I have been finding ourselves perusing through The Home Depot, to look at lighting, showers and toilet seats, and checking out all the housewares at the local Walmart and Zellers. Funny thing is, we don't get that much choice on the items in our house, we just get what has been donated and what is available. But we're fine with that, we just look around to dream. :) 

Thats all for now folks, until next time :)