Ready for Rock

The last couple of weeks since the roofs have been finished it was time to move on to put on the rock fronts on the houses. When I refer to the rock it is a man made thin concrete that looks like real rock. It doesn't hold anything up like rock use to but it looks really nice and it is easier to work with than real rock and it gives a lot of choices. It takes a lot of prep work before a single rock is placed up. I was a slacker with pictures so I only have a picture of the scratch coating after it was all done. Last Saturday we got all of the houses scratch coated and started to put the rock up. It was been difficult and they learning carve steep, but now we have done it for about a week it is getting easier. The weather has also been prefect and I wish we could have about two more weeks of the warm weather.

We have also had some issues getting our rock. The company we were ordering from had a website to look at rock samples. We found a color they had on a house but it wasn't listed any other place. We ordered it and then when it didn't show up, the company said they didn't know what picture we were talking about and had changed it on their website. It was a little bit fishy and weird so we had to choose something different. We now have the second order but I was a little worried about it for the last two week. Our house is one of the easier houses so it is not the priority to get done right away so waiting was not a problem.

Other things that have happened on the house is the rest of our cement was put into place. That includes, back porch, side porch out of garage, front porch, driveway and then on a second day the sidewalk to the front porch and the approach to the drive way.

I just had to put our name in the cement. I put 2008 Little if you were wondering.

BabySitting

Part of Building our house for me is babysitting. Not only do I babysit half the time but Maleah also has to have a babysitter. This has not been an easy thing for me to do. I love to watch kids but it can be very challenging at times too. Every other day I watch two little girls age 7 and 3 and of coarse Maleah. Then on the other days their mom watches Maleah. On the days that are good weather we go to a park and play. It takes up a lot of time and they have fun. This week was Halloween and there is a Pumpkin walk in North Logan, and that is what we did for fun. There are displays of craved pumpkins and painted pumpkins. It is fun and elaborate what people come up with. At the very end they have cute cut outs that they kids put their faces in. Here are the two girls that I watch. Maleah hated it and I couldn't get a picture worth posting.

Shingles

The house is completely shingled. Thanks to Jermey and Kelly that come tons of extra hours this week because we would still be working on Saturday on it without them. They got so much done that on Thursday I only could help put the ridge cap on top because that was the only thing left to put on. Everyone worked so hard and it a relief to have it done before it gets any colder.

Windows

On Tuesday we got to put our windows in our house. It is a fun step closer and not as hard as I thought it would be. For us it is not been hard because the window opening have framed in correctly. Because I want to I want to put up the steps in brief detail.

Step1: Make sure the window and the opening are the right size. Also check the opening to make sure it is cut out completely.

Step 2: Is is chalk around the opening to help seal the window when it is in. Joe tried on the second window and it was all over the place so I fired him from doing an other window and was promoted to screwing in around the window which is step 4.

Step 3: Put put the window in place, as seen below as Joe and I lift up and put it in.

Step 4: is making sure the window is in sqaurely and screw it in, and that is it.

Simple enough even though you can really mess it up.

We are really happy to have our windows in our house. It is another step closer don't you think.

Leaky Roof

Last Saturday, our big working day, was completely horrible with RAIN all day. We did how ever get to work inside houses all day. It was nice to have roofs done and get the inside ready for electrical and plumbing on other houses. Our house got the sheeting on the roof and I can tell you at that point it was a very leaky roof. It was sad to have to get a few things covered because it was so hard to avoid the rain coming through the roof. Good to say though that it will be soon be covered with shingles. Also the few roofs that we do have shingled we know so far are not leaking, so good job to us. The following pictures were not taken on Saturday, but Monday which was a good day working.

Trusses

We have been waiting for almost two weeks for the trusses to be put up on the last two houses. The company had the trusses ready to go on the house that wasn't yet framed so we all thought it was going to get done faster. It wasn't but we had a lot of other things to keep us busy with. On Wednesday when I went out to pick up the girls this is the site I saw.
I was so happy that I just wanted to jump up and down. My house is very close to having a roof. It is great to see how fast they put the trusses up on our house and the other last house.
Pile of trusses last week waiting to go up. It was sad to see no progress for a week but exciting to now have them up.

Walk through walls

Last Saturday, we celebrated having all the houses framed with a BBQ. During the BBQ the two girls that I watch every-other day wanted to go to their room(we were BBQing at their house) in their soon to be new house. Several of us said that they should walk through the walls now because they won't be able to do that for much longer. It was very funny at the time and very true. Sorry my story didn't really explain it well but it was a cute time.

So on the topic of walking through walls I got a few pictures of the inside of our framed house, when we can still walk through walls. This is one bedroom close and the master suit father away.
From the previous post this is where the tubs should be. This is looking into the walls that we had to wait to put up because of not having the tubs earlier.
This is our kitchen/dinning/family room area with our back door. All the wood has now been picked up.