We have electricity and more

So I am a few days late in posting these.  I actually got a chance to take a photo of the electrical in better light.  It is now hooked up and working.  The rear wall is taking shape.  Some of the shear wall on the upper floor is going in.  The living room is starting to feel like a room.  Last night was too dark to take photos, but the upstairs is starting to feel like it actually has the rooms that are on the drawings.  The plan is becoming a reality.  There are many many many details left to take care of.

Old Electrical Service

For comparison this is what the old service looked like.

Ready for inspection

Today we ran conduit, wired an outlet and grounded our box ready for inspection tomorrow.

New Electrical Box

It is so very level!

Main floor taking shape

There is a staircase and beginnings of the upstairs walls. 

Ahhh the view

The sunsets over Tam are always wonderful.

Framing

Since I couldn't get good pictures in the dark, here are some pictures of what the crew accomplished this week. Look closely, they are starting to frame the landing for the staircase.

More digging and filling

We spent the morning putting epoxy in cracks in the old part of the foundation.  And the afternoon doing more digging for the front porch.  It's coming.

Goodbye hole for the chimney

They put up the shear wall on the ground floor.  It feels like a house again.  A new interior wall and new floor joists across the hole left from the chimney.

Kitchen floor and a bedroom wall

It feels so good to be able to stand where my kitchen will be!

Stairwell and sheerwall

There's a hole! It's the carve out for the stairwell.  We're also getting shear wall.  Sorry it's dark.

Prepping for the porch

Today Ian dug a hole and we spread the dirt on  the back yard to raise the grade a little.  I think I had sprouts of volunteer arugula that we covered.  Maybe there are more seeds that will try. 

Framing progress

Now that its getting dark earlier it's hard for me to take pictures on weeknights, so this may be a weekend blog for a while.  The downstairs framing is moving ahead steadily.  It's great seeing the kitchen floor start to take shape.  Our crew tarped the house well before the rain on Friday.  For the most part it was a day of cleaning.  Puddles, sawdust, nails & screws, etc.  Ian painted the board that the electrical box will mount on.  I replanted some plants that were "inconvenienced" by the sewer repair.