Is it a tower??

This is from the side of the addition that will be the new bedroom.

Yesterday when I got home from work, it looked like they had built me a tower, but it's really a safe room.  One of our goals was to have a place that  will be easily accessible for storms.  The closet/safe room is the solution to that problem.

This angle is taken from the highway side of the house.

Last week's happenings

Well I was gone most of last week to a training in Kansas.  While I was away, Jim took some pics for me to post.

Foundation work begins in this picture



Notice that the overhang to the old deck was taken off here.
They told Jim to stay away from the Living room window just in case.



I'll upload more stuff as it happens.  Have a good week everyone.

Week's updates

Well we have made progress this week, on Thursday, the 17th they tore off the deck.  On Friday the 18th the footings were poured for the foundation  I'm adding the pictures to show the progress so far.

Side angle before deck demolition.

Front angle before deck demolition

House with the deck torn off.  Looks really funny :-)

Footings have been poured

Meetings this morning

True to his word, our contractor came this morning at 9:00 a.m. and he had the cabinet guy, the foundation guy, and the HVAC guy meet us out here.  It seems that the foundation will be started on Friday.  We are going to have to upgrade the HVAC and we may have to modify the septic and drainage systems.

today's post

The contractor called and set up a meeting for Wednesday morning to pick out kitchen cabinets and talk about the HVAC.  We were originally told that the unit we have would work, but later found out that the contractor was given incorrect information.

Extra stuff for this weekend

During the time we were talking to the contractor we found a leak in one of our water lines.  We will have to get a plumber to fix that!!  Unfortunately, the line we are fixing will be changed in about a month for the addition.

One comment Jim made this evening that is very apt and absolutely hilarious: "We're trying to turn a "redneck" cabin into a really nice conventional home" 

It Begins

Yesterday, we met our contractor and signed the papers to begin the addition.  We are planning to add a living room, master bedroom, master bath, fireplace, saferoom/closet, and re-do the current living room, kitchen, and entrance hall.

During the course of the project I will take some pictures and post notes on how this all goes.  I anticipate some stress since us and our two cats will live here while the construction is underway.  We'll see what happens and just make every attempt to roll with the flow. :-)