Day 88 – Adair Homes Phase II of Construction Last week the final touches to the exterior were finished, which rounded out the end of Phase I of Construction. We spent much of last weekend debating on colors for the exterior. We got a sample of Pewter Tankard from Sherwin-Williams, and painted a leftover piece…
Day 80 of Adair Homes Construction: Finishing the Exterior of Home and Painting Decisions This week the final touches on the exterior were completed. We had a lot of rain last weekend and the roof was on just in time. Monday the siders were out working in the rain for most of the day finish…
Day 73 – Roofing, Siding, Electrical, HVAC, Plumbing Wow! It’s amazing how much can be done in one week when you have multiple trades working all at once! A lot was done this week, including the roof! And it was completed just in time, as we have a 100% chance of rain this weekend. The…
Day 67 of New Home Construction Framing was mostly completed this week. There are a couple of small items that they have to finish up, but for the most part the framers are done. We had windows delivered and roofing was started – just in time! It looks like next week we have one day…
Day 60 of New Home Construction – Framing Almost Complete At our pre-construction meeting we were given a Homeowner’s Handbook and Construction Guide from Adair Homes. This has been a great resource for us to reference as we have questions during the construction process. Of course, our site superintendent has been really awesome to work…
Eugene New Home Builder Day 45 This week they started framing the second story. They finished last week by putting up the floor joists. Monday they put the sub floors in and started the second story walls. We were able to check out the second story without walls earlier in the week, but had to…
Day 38 Since Starting Foundation It’s been 38 days since the foundation was started and we’re still framing. We had a little rain at the beginning of the week, which was a bit of a surprise to me. I checked the forecast and it didn’t look like there was going to be any more rain,…
Framing the First Floor of Our Oregon New Home Wow! What a difference a week makes! They put in the sub floors the first part of the week and then started framing the walls later in the week. Now that framing has started it seems like things are really moving along. Every time we go…
Floor Joist for New Home We did not get much done last week. The two weeks prior to that we had the foundation poured and the following week the garage concrete was poured. I was hoping our excavator could come to trench the utilities, install foundation drains and back fill; but unfortunately his bobcat broke…
Week 2 of Construction of Our Oregon New Home Not much has changed on the new home. I was hoping our excavator could come during this time we had between the foundation and start of framing, but…s$%# happens. His bobcat broke down last week and he spent the end of last week and the beginning…
