1/2 a roof!!

Today Ian and his workers managed to get 1/2 of the roof rafters up it was quite a sight to see. Kinda cool. I have pictures but they have been lost in my computer and are yet to be found!span>

So until I do my description will have to do! The rafters are half up and they have to finish the north side of the house and the dormer. I suppose that will come last after the others are attached.

So tomorrow the plan is to finish securing the rafters and then put the plywood on. Then it will look like an actual house!! I can't wait. I must say it is pretty cool to watch a house go up if you don't really know much about houses.

So stay tuned and you'll continue to see progress!! I hope!!

The floor and a good movie...

Told ya it wouldn't take long. Ian and the boys had the floor done today before they left. I was thrilled to see it when we got home.Where were we you ask??

I took Dalton to see Wall E . It was very cute and I liked it very much. Dalton thought it was great. I thought it was almost scary on how technology is changing the world that this movie could one day almost be true.

Otherwise it was very entertaining and I loved Wall E!

Tyson is at Nanny & Poppa's trailer for the next couple of days because we are going to try to go to the water slides tomorrow. Tyson said he is going on his vacation. If the weather hold off. I am so sick of this summer and the rain!

And then came the webbing...

So I don't know what to think of this new method of webbing it is called but we'll see if it works. It is suppose to seal your basement for leaks. And well we do live in Foxboro which is a flood plain even though we are above it.

This draining board goes on first after the black coat seal.

Then the webbing.

Then the tar caulk the top and put a beading rail around it.

Then comes the gravel around the house.

And Gravel in the house.

So I'll let you know how we make out and if we have any water problems.

I am hoping not!

And then there were basement walls.....

The guys showed up about 10am this morning. I didn't think the way it was going that we were going to see anyone this week. Needless to say though they did. Once the guys got their stuff unloaded and got down to work it didn't take them long at all. This picture was at 10:20 when they arrived...

This picture was about 10:40am.....This picture was at 11:10am... Walls are up just need supports and outside rail up.

Then the cement pump truck arrived at 12:00pm. And filled all the supports. Tyson thought that was the coolest thing.

They were all very friendly and talked away to the kids who asked tons of questions from the trailer window. The guys thought that they were very funny. Especailly Tyson when the cement truck and cement pump truck arrived and he got his grizzly little voice going..."OH the cement truck" he'd say in his deep wolfy voice.

I was actually amazed at how quickly they finished. They started at 10:30am putting up the framing for the walls. By 2:30 they were all packed up and ready to leave the job. Tools away cement poured the whole bit.

I was shocked! But super glad to see it done!

We have forms for our basement!!

We were asleep this morning when we woke up to the sounds of wood being thrown into the hole! It was a few of the guys from DorAnn homes coming to make some forms for the basement posts and for the cement walls to sit on.

When you get a couple of guys together it doesn't take long and they got it done. The longest thing after they finished work was waiting for the gravel and cement to arrive.

They made quick work of it. Not tomorrow they will be back to take the wood away and then we will be ready to get the walls started! Yeah!

Pretty eh??

Gas line???

Nothing too exciting happened today with the house, but something I suppose that is very important.

The gas company came and marked out the line on the sidewalk that the gas line travels under. I suppose that could be important when they start to dig out the house. Something I bet they would rather not hit.

Not to mention, might leave and even bigger hole!!

So we just wait now and see what happens next......

The house came down.......

For those of you who haven't been here in a while you have a lot of reading to do!

This is what the house looked like on Saturday after we torn off the windows and the doors and the siding... not the sky that was those lovely rain clouds that we worked in all day!

This is after they unloaded their high hoe and started to take it down. It was kinda sad. This was our first home, where we brought the kids home to, the place that we spent a lot of time and money into to re do. A lot of memories went into this little house. Oh well, get over it there is nothing you can do about it now! Crap happens!

I went around to the front of the house to take a few pictures because he wanted to work his way to the back so nothing fell out into the street! He was a good operator because nothing hit even the sidewalk. He could pick tiny pieces of wood up with that claw I couldn't believe it.

It took exactly one hour and 30 minutes to tear it down to just a pile of rubble.

Should I call the insurance company about the hole in the roof????

That living room carpet is never coming clean!

We generated lots of spectators for the event. The busiest Foxboro has been since the house burnt down.

Steph brought Nick up to watch, Tracey and Kevin came over, Angela came by, Tina, Julie and Jocelyn brought Bailey over. And Colleen came out to watch too! We had a great visit with everyone. Not to mention the people that stopped by all day to watch.

We took the front row seats in the back yard.
Yup, my entire life amounted to three dumpsters and three dump truck loads. Inviting thought isn't it??The second last dump truck load got stuck in the mud. So the high hoe had to give him a push out!

The whole day was quite exciting for the kids after it was all done it was a regular day of playing in the sand box , swimming and eating. No biggie.

Tyson just kept saying all day "Now my house is really broken".

And this is what the lot looks like now all empty. Looks kinda funny. On to bigger and better things. Hopefully it won't be too long and things will get started and I can show you progress. I am excited now. On to new memories.

Guess I had better start with shocking the pool from all the rain, and vacuuming out all the dust from today!

If it isn't one thing it's another!

Talk about wet!!

Since Rancor is coming on Monday they gave Darin the go ahead to take whatever he wants out of the house. He wanted to save the doors since we put them in and there is nothing wrong with them and a few of the new windows so we can put them in our wood shed so it won't get so hot in there.

He also wants to fix up the wood shed so that it isn't falling down and it needed to be resided so that meant we needed to get some siding off the old house too since you can't get the same colours anymore.

Did I mention that it poured rain. Picture this...your in a bathtub for about 6 hours. Your entire body is wrinkly. Well did you know that you can hold three times your body weight in wet clothes?? Well we worked away in the sheeting rain all day. We finished about 2 o'clock then guess what... the sun came out and shined the rest of the day! Just my luck. you wait and see if we all don't get sick now! I will not be impressed. We did manage to get everything done, cleaned up and put away. So bring on the high hoe!

permits....always with the permits!

We finally got our permits! Yeah!! Today I got a call to go and pick up the permits at City Hall. This now means that I have a lot on my plate again. First call Dan, then Jamie, then rancor, then Jamie....etc... and make arrangements to get the old house down and payment for people and that stuff! And then DorAnn can do what they have to do.

There has been a slight set back. Jamie forgot to move the house north , and I forgot to remind him so even though we have the permits we must get permission to move it north to meet the land variances. Jamie assures me that it is only a slight set back. I am hoping.

Regardless the house will be torn down on Monday. A lot of wrangling but it will be done. I'm sure the kids will enjoy it. It will be something I hope they enjoy and will never see again.