Frugal Farm Renovation: On solid ground

Friday, August 10, 2007

On solid ground

Frugaldad sleeps better at night now that the empty space under the foundation of our house is backfilled.

The city inspector has required that we have a compaction test done on the soil between the basement and the original house to make sure it will support the walls that connect the house to the addition. Since they native soil was disturbed, he wants to make sure we put enough dirt back in.

A company came and took a soil test yesterday and are supposed to come and do a compaction test on it today.

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Addition Timeline

sorry this is so outdated...
1/26 Last door installed, plus knobs and locks on both doors
1/12 Supply side of plumbing begun
1/1 Last window installed
12/29 3 basement windows, DWV system plumbed all the way outside the building
12/27 1 more window, some more plumbing
12/24 5 more windows installed
12/22 first 5 windows installed
12/21 windows delivered
12/15 working on plumbing
12/8 French doors installed
11/30-12/1 House wrap done; framing of first floor bathroom and doorway in center wall
11/23-24 More walls framed
11/23 Roof finished
11/17 Stairs finished
11/10 Cliff nearly finished south side of roof; trim and drip edge finished; Frugaldad extended existing plumbing vents through new roof and built landing for basement stairs
11/8 Cliff finished north valley
11/7 Cut stair stringers
11/6 Cliff started on north valley; Frugaldad built stair jigs
11/3 Cliff started roof work; wove south valley and did lots of trim boards and drip edge; Frugaldad framed and tipped up walls on either side of stair opening. Framed east section of center wall
11/1 Moved debris to dumpster, framed east stair wall
10/31 cleanup, chalk lines for interior walls
10/30 Rafter ties, removed rest of siding from outside of house (inside the addition)
10/29 Rafter ties
10/27 Rest of sheathing
10/26 Clean-up
10/22-10/25 Tar paper
10/20 Majority of exterior sheathed
10/19 Roof trusses and decking installed
10/18 Finished top plates of walls
10/17 Dumpster and trusses delivered; debris from demo cleaned up
10/15 Took off shingles for new roof; tar paper
10/13 Tipped up walls; finished subtraction demo
10/12 Demo against house for wall placement
10/11 Exterior walls all framed, trusses are ordered
10/10 Nailed walls together
10/9 Built west walls
10/8 cut lumber for under window openings
10/6 put headers in north and south walls
9/30 to 10/5 Business trip
9/29 Started framing walls
9/28 lumber delivery--studs for framing walls
9/26 Floor decking complete
9/25 Remainder of joists installed
9/22 Concrete shelf completed
9/21 4 parts of concrete shelf laid
9/18 More joists installed
9/17 Majority of floor decking installed
9/15 Floor joists positioned and nailed. First course of floor decking nailed down.
9/14 Another lumber delivery--floor joists and deck. Rim joists positioned.
9/13 Crawl access opening framed
9/12 Crawl access cut for HVAC
9/8 Load bearing wall finished.
9/7 More lumber delivered. Working on building the load bearing wall in basement
9/1 Sill plates installed. Grass is growing.
8/25 Reseeded lawn over the new drainfield.
8/31 First lumber delivered. Started installing sill plates
8/21 Saw cuts made in slab
8/20 Slab and stem walls poured
8/16 Finally passed soil test
8/14 Failed soil test again, took a new sample
8/10 Failed soil test
8/9 Soil sample taken
8/7 Backfill completed, forms off walls
8/6 Start taking forms off walls, backfill begun, window wells installed
8/2 Basement walls poured
7/30 Footings poured for basement
7/23 Basement location excavated
7/20 Demolition of the "subtraction"
7/19-7/20 New drain field installed