It's 8:30 a.m. Thursday December 22, 2011 and the first truck arrives with Hollow Core Planks!

The Crane arrives to lift the planks into position!

 The 2nd truck loaded with planks arrives!

The 1st and smallest plank is positioned!

Four men to start the process.  Notice the bar that lifts the smaller planks is different than the 

one to come.  Keep watching!!

This is the 3rd plank to be placed. It is placed on the I beam on one side!

An arial view of that 3rd plank over a bedroom and laundry/bathroom.

The 4th one getting loaded on the crane.

Looking out for the power line, it swings over the house to it's place.

An arial view of #4 in place.  Only 2 across in this area.

Such precision to make each plank sit on 3", yes that is 3 inches of edge.  See the visegrips

that hold each plank as it is transferred to it's place!

Now just what you have been watching for- the blue I beam is now sturdier that holds each plank.  When

did they switch?

Now it is sturdy enough to walk on! Instant floor-practically!!

Just two to go-It is now nearing noon-all in a morning's work!

Last plank to go!

All complete- next a 4" slab is to be poured on top to hold it all together!

What an engineering accomplishment!

So excited to get to this stage!

Isn't it beautiful!

The subfloor of the garage and ceiling of the 2nd floor!

All covered with visqueen to protect till the next phase!

The Heavy I beams are brought in!

The I beams are brought to the site and laying next to the walls.

The crane is in place ready to lift them.

A side angle shot of the walls with the I beams being put into place!

The Long Large I beams had to be lifted by a crane to avoid the overhead electric lines!

Now you can see the beams in place ready for the load of cement slabs for the floor of

the garage. Hopefully they will be brought in this week

Yet more views of the cement walls of the 2nd floor!

So there is still another level on top of this that will form the garage

Only half of the floor is poured, so that is still left to do!

Just another view of the walls!

The forms are still on!

Nick acting like he is taking the forms off!

The forms are still on in this picture

Notice the shadow of Lonnie taking a picture and me watching!

Side view of the walls with forms off!

Finally the walls are starting to come up!

The first half of the rec room floor is going to be poured finally

All the re-bar is laid  and read for the pour!

They poured the floor of the bathroom with all the piping sticking up!

Now half of the floor is poured but they are waiting to get the walls up before

pouring the rest of the floor, something about to form a seal!

The wall forms are being put up ( just one side of the forms)

So they still have to put the re-bar up and then the other side of the wall forms and 

then finally the pour hopefully soon as the weather is becoming an issue.

We are getting so close to winter and snow so we just keep praying and hoping

for great weather to continue.  We have had such a beautiful fall and exceptionally lovely days!

The 2nd 1/2 is finally started!

So the footings are poured for the 2nd 1/2 of house!

An over view look of the footings for the 2nd floor and garage above

There is still a mound of dirt to move out of there before the 

next  step-not sure how they get it out!

This is the plumbing rough in for the bathroom and laundry room of 

the 2nd floor

So these are the plumbers putting in the radon venting and 

roughing in the plumbing shown above!

The men have put in the iron posts to support beams that will be coming

Now you can see all 3 posts.  The beams will form a T on top of these posts

to support the garage above.   Pictures in future will make more sense

The gravel is laid for the pour of cement to form the slab of floor for the back 1/2 of the

2nd floor which is the rec room, 3 bedrooms and a bath/laundry room

Now you see the lay out with the footings!  And to think our contractor went on vacation

This week and next when we are under such a tight schedule, according to him!!

So finally the footings are poured for the second 1/2 of the house

They are large, and we are getting concerned about running out of good weather to build!

The Sub roofing and spaces

This originally was drawn by Wolf with just trusses in it,

but Robert said we may as well have it for closet space, YEAH ROBERT!

I may have put this in but it is just sub flooring to stand on the deck to work off!

So this shows the holes dug for the footings and the first half of the house with the roof sheeting on

This shows how high the vaulted ceiling is to accomodate a stained glass window we are putting in!

See how this side of the house is starting to come together!