Has it been 5 weeks already? Still, we are indeed anxious to get this building up!!
Ready Installs and Cormier Homebuilding were busy this week. We also had Mike Astrella and his crew doing some electrical work. Moving forward for sure.
Backfilling the foundationMore sand for backfillingMike Astrella working on conduitsDrilling out hole for septic accessBackfilling progress – and repair on foundation chip.Concrete piers for the deck came on Wednesday. Deliveries would start to accelerate.Close up view of chip repair. Looks good!Wednesday progress.By Wednesday, this was the view of the progress from upstairs in the house.
Friday and Saturday would see more deliveries. Some lumber is still on back-order, but not too much.
Friday saw a delivery of lumber – mostly LVL’s and floor joists.Saturday saw a BIG delivery of even more lumber.Lots of lumber!End of week – here we are progress-wise.
With any luck, Tropical Storm Henri (which hit us Sunday with rain and wind and will affect us through Monday) will not cause any delays this week.
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17 thoughts on “Our Garage+ Project – Week Five Update”
It’s full steam ahead with the build. Congrats on so much progress.
This might be a silly question but is your house made of timber or is that cladding over brick or a similar material?
I’m always curious about construction methods in different areas.
Mark A. Morin 
It’s full steam ahead with the build. Congrats on so much progress.
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Thanks Anthony, I’m hoping it accelerates!
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So far so good Mark. Looking forward to seeing that lumber being used. 🙂
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Thanks Dave, those trees must nit have been sacrificed in vain. 😄
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I never thought I’d be this excited to follow the progress on someone’s garage build, but this has reeled me in 100%!
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Yay! Happy to have ya along for the ride Mikko!
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Nice progress Mark, and back to a solid ground level, rather than looking like a bunker. Should see a lot of changes now.
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Thanks Dave. Framing starts tomorrow!
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Quite a big change in the last week! 🙂 Good progress I think!
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More to come John!
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Great to see the progress week by week.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Cheers Pete!
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Coming on well mate, I like the concrete piers, I could do with some of them in 28mm scale! 😀
Cheers Roger
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They certainly would be easier to move in 28mm!
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This might be a silly question but is your house made of timber or is that cladding over brick or a similar material?
I’m always curious about construction methods in different areas.
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It’s a concrete foundation and timber framing.
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