Sunday, June 25, 2006

A house to sell, a house to rent, and a house to build . . .

We just closed on the sale of our old house, so we're really happy about only having to deal with 2 houses instead of 3! Our only problem is that our rental house is for sale and there's a showing today. We are sooooooo hoping it doesn't sell - it's been on the market for a really long time, so we took the risk. The owner said he won't take less than his asking price, and if it does sell, he'll refund all of our rent and help us move. It sounded like a good deal until the realtor called wanting to show it one day after we moved in. There couldn't be a worse time for this house to sell! Oh well, we'll just have to wait and see - although you can bet I'm not going to go out of my way to make the place look good!

We finally have Internet at the rental house now (Kaila calls it the "Middle House") so here's a new update. We had a busy week - moving, closing on the sale of our old house, and working on the new house. Below you can see the concrete and pumper trucks on site. We had a total of 8 trucks of concrete come to the site that day - over 70 yds of concrete.
Here is a close up of the pour into the ICF walls around the stair opening. This is a look at the forms and blocking in place with rebar before the concrete. You can see all of the blocking for the areas that we need to keep concrete out of - such as where our heating and cooling system registers will go on the first floor.
Another shot of pouring into the ICF wall. I'll add more pics of the floor pour and finishing above in another post. Thanks for reading.

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