Cottage 2025

The house is almost fully sheathed and the garage roof is almost done!

Now we have a garage too!

Another week of rapid progress! We have a roof!

Another 9 days gone and we are still making steady progress. Wall sheathing is starting to go up but we are still waiting on equipment to help us install the very heavy ridge beams and rafters.

The past 10 days have been very busy! We finished up the foundation and grading and made a good start on raising the timberframe.

We’re writing this post on Monday August 25 and it is the first really rainy day in a while. We’re taking a break from construction while we wait for the rain to pass.

Lots of progress!

Sunday August 10 was a day of rest! Yay! Over the next 5 days we made rapid progress toward completing the seemingly never ending projects that needed to be completed before we could actually start raising the timberframe. We are so glad to be almost done with the foundation and site prep!

We went home to NY and spent two weeks taking care of some business. The cats were very excited to be home. What they didn’t realize was that one of the things on the agenda at home was for them to have a visit with the vet!

The 4^th of July holiday weekend killed our momentum a bit, but on Monday July 7, Paul came over to help build up a boulder retaining wall on a steeply sloped section of fill. The boulders we used were all pulled out of the ground when excavating for the foundation. Paul picked up boulders using the excavator and placed them where Rob indicated. It’s not finished yet, but it looks pretty good so far!

Construction begins!!!

We got a text on June 24 from Wayne (our building contractor) that Teresa (our excavation contractor) would be showing up on Wednesday June 25 to start excavating our foundation hole. YAAY!! Construction can finally begin!