Cabinets and Appliances

The cabinets throughout the kitchen and bathrooms have been assembled and installed. Closet organization has also been started, and the kitchen has been outfitted with all new stainless steel appliances including a beautiful double wall oven.

Power!

Permanent power installed on September 18th

Taping

Started taping drywall seams on September 2nd.

Drywall

All the board was loaded in to the house and the installation was completed this week. Taping will start in a couple days.

Inspections

Paper and insulation was completed after the inspections were done. Due to some plumbing errors, we replaced 94 fittings, 150' of pipe and installed 32 metal plates to protect the plumbing. We also replaced 50% of the garage floor to accommodate the 7'9" garage opening.

Delays

There have been a lot of delays with the paper, wire and soffit installation. Unfortunately due to some no-shows from the owners contractors.

Backfill & Steel Beams

Good progress this week, BC Hydro installed the temporary power and Regional District of Central Okanagan completed the water connection.  Back filling and re-grading of the driveway started Thursday, the steel beams were started Friday and will be completed after the long weekend.

Concrete Walls

The weather was perfect for Monday and we poured the concrete walls, overall this was a difficult pour with multiple drops, a 4 way corner, two flying grade beams and plenty of custom steel in the engineered walls.  We will strip the forms on Wednesday; foundation coating is set for Wednesday evening.  Steel beams are scheduled for pick-up on Thursday with installation for Friday.  Floor joists are ready Monday but we may delay for a day to allow for preping all the steel beams.

Inspections

All the steelwork was installed in the walls on Wednesday and by 3:00 PM we had our inspection from Bourcett Engineering, all good.  The concrete forms will be closed up on Thursday, concrete is scheduled to be poured on Friday at 10:30 AM.

Excavation & Concrete

Slow progress this week, some issues but all were resolved.  The gravel bank towards the neighbours fence sloughed into the excavation and shifted the footings.  We removed all of the footings in the lower garage area and brought in a small excavator to clear the gravel then reset the footings.  On Wednesday the concrete pumper truck showed up late and didn't have enough equipment to do the job, the delay compromised the quality of concrete so we sent back an entire truckload of concrete and the pump truck. The owner of the pumper truck has taken responsibility for his error and will settle payment with the concrete company.

We expect to pour the concrete walls on Friday next week.

Excavation

Another long day, good progress on road building and packing

Excavation

The road packer was delivered about 9:00 AM on Friday and we were able to pack entire building site this makes for a very solid base for the foundation..  The elevations are looking pretty good at this point the packed area is the bottom of the footing,  the top of the floor in the great room will be 2' 8" above the packed area.   The garage floor will be 7 ' below the packed area so there is still lots of material to remove.

(Looks like my camera lens picked up a couple of the rain drops from the sun shower!)

Excavation

The excavation started April 18, good progress, removed the trees from the north edge of the lot and removed about 30 percent of the basement excavation material to start building up the access road.  Early next week, BC Hydro will advise the cost of underground v.s. overhead service to the house.  Temporary power is required for the site as soon as possible so we are pushing BC Hydro for prompt service.