Ready for Inspection

This view is standing in the kitchen looking towards living room/back of the house.

 From the sliders towards the kitchen & living room.  The power in the floor in the kitchen is where a big eating island will be with the cook-top. The Oven/Microwave, dishwasher, sink and refrigerator will be along the wall. 

From the picture window looking at the fireplace and foyer/front door. TV and bookcases will be on the wall to the left of the fireplace. The room to the far left with the window sitting on the floor is the Master Bedroom.

So, the HVAC, Electrical and Plumbing rough-ins are complete.  And as you can see the Shingles are on.  County Inspection should be this week Friday.

Next up Insulation & Sheetrock!

Roof! Roof! Roof!

Things are coming along very well.  The framers are 99.9% complete and the plumber has started.  Electrician will start in about a week.

The following video was taken while standing in the living room, panning from the deck, through the kitchen area, out the front door, past the corner fireplace, through the master bedroom wall, out to the view.

More Framing

It stopped raining this morning so we went to a late breakfast with friends and then checked on the framing progress.  We were very pleased to see roof rafters!

Main Floor Complete

Framing is coming along nicely!  We are VERY pleased with Cobblestone Builders, the foreman Matt and all the subs that have worked on the house so far.  

It's very windy here at (800 feet above sea level) on the lake today.  I can imagine that up on the mountain (2,000 feet) it is treacherous.

Framing has begun!

Framing started this week.

The floor trusses should have arrived yesterday (Friday) but didn't.  As soon as they arrive (Monday?) the framing crew will continue.  We were surprised how much they had achieved with all the rain we've gotten in the last couple days.

Back of the house

View

Concrete Complete

They poured the basement floor on the 22nd.

We ordered a colored concrete for the garage floor.  That was  poured the following Friday.  Then they put the lot on final grade.

Wood should be delivered by the end of the week!

Some Progress

Well let's see, what's new since last I posted?   They poured the lower level walls.

And sprayed them with water-proofing.

And did some preliminary grading.

Then the plumbers came and did the in-ground drain plumbing.

If all goes well the Inspector will pass the work and the concrete lower level floor will be poured this week.  Then comes the framing!

So far we have been happy with the builder.  Especially the foreman Matt.  He keeps us up to date and very much in the loop.  Has listened to our concerns and communicated well with the subs.  My engineer husband really appreciates that :)

Aaaannd it begins....

The footers were dug about a week ago.

Yesterday they poured the concrete in.

It all started with a drive

After a lovely drive through the South Carolina mountains in the Fall 2016, we both commented on how beautiful it all was and if we didn't already live in our 'Forever Home' on the lake, the mountains would be a nice place to live.

We continued to take drives through the mountains and started peeking into the neighborhoods.  We started talking about downsizing, about how much space we really needed, what we would change, what we wanted for our future.  So we started to plan.  Did we want a log cabin out in the woods or a home in a community?  Eventually we settled on a larger community with lots of social groups, clubhouse, restaurant, swimming pool, tennis and golf (not that we play tennis or golf mind you).  And we found this...

It has a kickass view

They started digging the foundation today :)