My Home Construction Project Page

Starting around the end of March or the beginning of April 2006 with the help of friends and family
 I will start to build my home. I have decided to try and capture the entire process on camera
 and post the pictures and videos here.  As I learn things that I feel will help someone that is also
 building their own home I will post them here on this page.
Mostly this page will be a journal of the entire project, Start to Finish......

Stay tuned as I am just getting started!

My Home will be a 2688 Sq. Ft. Rancher, 4 Bedroom, 3 Bath, Fireplace, Cathedral Ceilings
in the Kitchen, Dinning and Living Room Areas. Open Kitchen Design with tiered bar.
 Full basement with 10 foot Superior Wall System. I choose 10 foot ceiling in the basement because
I will have a garage under half the house and I wanted to be able to
park my F-250 4x4 Crew Cab with a high cap on it in the garage. 

New Pictures Added 11-26-06

Home Construction Slide Show	Foundation Walls Slide Show
Front Elevation View	Kids Digging Silt Fence Trench	Kids Digging Silt Fence Trench	Kyle Digging Trench
Clearing The Lot	Moving Rock Pile	Moving Large Rocks
Empty Lot	Empty Lot	Taking Measurements	Taking Measurements
Corner Markers	Planting Markers	Makers Planted
Stripping Top Soil	Stripping Top Soil	Steve on the Hoe	Digging the Basement
Basement Done	Digging Footers	Digging Footers	Footers All Dug
Empting Trenches after Major Rainstorm	Draining the Jobsite	Roughing the 4" Sewer Pipe	Here comes the Stone!
Ballast Stone for the driveway comes 1st	1st load of Ballast Stone	2nd Ballast Truck	4 Loads of 1/2 inch Stone
3-1/2 Loads of 3/4" Stone	Filling Footer Trenches	Setting Grade Steaks	Start to lay 8 inch's of level 1/2" stone 58'x36'
Raking 1/2" Stones Level	Half way There!	Almost Done!	All done with the Stone.
Taking a Break!	Walls Arrive	Click Here To See the Walls being Put Together Slide Show	Walls Complete (Front)
Walls Complete (Back)	Mixing Concrete For Column Pads	Making Column Pads	Putting Garage Drain In
Digging Sewer Trench	Installing Rain Drains	Installing Footer Drain	Installing Footer Drain
Footer Fabric	Footer Fabric	Measuring Grinder Pit	Installing Grinder Pump
Digging Sewer Line	Digging Sewer Line	Beams And Columns Arrive	Beam Crane
Leveling Beams	Installing Beams	Bolting Beam Together	1st Shipment of wood!
Putting on the Sill Plate	Starting Floor Joists	Me with an Auto Hammer	Cutting Joists
Dave Sr. Dave Jr. - Joists	Pizza Break!	Sewer Lateral Install	2nd Load of Wood Arrives..
Start Decking!	More Decking..	Tony and me on Deck	Josh And Dave Jr.
Start Front Exterior Walls	Steve, Dave Sr. and Josh.	Hammer Some More....	Rear Exterior Walls Framed
Rear Exterior Walls Framed	Sheeting the Walls	Todd Sheeting Walls	1st Wall Up!
2nd Wall Up!	3rd Wall Up!	Standing the 4th Wall	4th Wall Up!
5th Wall Up!	Lunch Time	Lunch Time	Roof Trusses Arrive
Installing Overhang	Waiting On Crane	Crane Arrives	1st Gable Truss
Installing Attic Trusses	Dave and Harold		Installing Scissor Trusses
Last Scissor	Last Gable	Steve on Guide Rope	Jim Nailing Gable
	Installing Roof Sheeting	Harold	Josh & Brian
Almost Done Sheeting		Installing Felt Paper	Finishing Felt Paper
		Digging Rear Deck   Cement Supports Holes	Cement Pillars For Rear Deck Done
Hooking up 4" Sewer Line		Adam Measuring Pipe	Its good to be small!
Rear Deck Ledger	Beams and Posts		Hanging Floor Joists
Floor Joists Done	Start Decking	And Decking	Almost Done Decking
Post Gussets Installed	Building Front Deck	Checking Level	Front Decking Done
Rear Deck Roof Framing	Setting 1st Roof Truss	Denny Hoisting Truss	Hand Them Up!
One More!	Last One...Gable End	Rear Deck Roof Done	Shingles Arrive
Thank goodness for a boom	Rick and Gary Unloading	Almost done 99 Bundles	Front Overhang Framing
Overhang Done	Putting up the Wind/Water Barrier Material
Ran out of material.	Installing Drips Edge	More Drip Edge	Laying down the Ice and  Water Shield
Starting the Rear Roof Shingles	Half way done the rear Roof	Kyle and Me	Finished Rear roof
Onto the Front Roof	I hate being on the Edge of the roof	Almost done Front Roof	Installing the Ridge Vent
Putting the Caps on the Ridge Vent	Jim and Me start the  Interior Walls	Interior Framing	More Framing
Jacuzzi/Whirlpool  Tub for Two!	Shower Unit	Steve and Me	Half way Done
Steve	Steve And Me	Interior Walls Done	Windows Arrive!
Installing Windows		Plumbing Started
Pipe Venting	Water Supply lines	Digging Patio Footer	Grinder Pump Wiring
Jim And Scott putting up the Ductwork	Cutting Return Duct		Kyle helping me Install Ductwork
Jim Installing Supply Duct	Jim and Me	Installing More Ductwork	Ductwork Done!
Building the Chimney Chase	Denny and I making the Chimney Chase
	Almost Done the Chase	Installing more House Wrap	House Wrap and Chimney Done!
End of another Busy Day!	Basement Ready for Cement Pour	Making the Patio Form	Concrete Day Is Finally Here!
My Turn On the Wheelbarrow	Todd, Gary and Lynn Finishing	Power Screeder at work	Steve's Turn!
Almost Done!	Gary on the Patio	Teamwork!	Patio Finished!
Starting the Front Siding	Getting Hot!	Almost done the front siding	Starting the Rear Siding
Kyle and me working on the rear siding			Rear Siding done
Right Siding Started!	Left Siding Started	Mom on the siding detail	Half way there!
	Almost Done	Installing French Door
Heave Ho!	No Problem!	Making Stair Stringers!
Putting Stairs together	Installing Treads	Almost Done!	Rear Deck Railing
Starting Chimney			Cutting Chimney Block
	Cutting Flue	Making a Thimble Hole	Laying Chimney Block
	Pointing Joints		Carrying Block up Ladder
Going Up!	Setting Flue	Almost Complete
Final Block!	Chimney is Done!	Making Continuous Spouting	Putting it all together
Installing Front Spouts	Its Raining Already	Installing Rear Spouts	Putting up a 33 footer
Putting up Vapor Barrier for Stone Veneer	Metal Lathe installed over vapor Barrier	Putting on the Mortar Scratch Coat	Start of the stones
			Half way there!
Stone Complete	Putting the mortar around stones
Almost done!		All Done!	Installing Front Door
Steve and I Lifting Door	Front Door Installed	Digging hole for Underground Propane Tank	Installing Tank
	Steve Putting up Insulation	Steve and Kyle	Adam lending a hand with Insulation
			Drywall Arrives
Putting up Drywall	Stan on the Screw Gun	Cutting out Switch boxes	Adam Measuring Drywall
Steve and Pam helping out with drywall	Thank god for a drywall Lift	Kyle	Pam spackling a closet
Putting up the Cathedral Ceiling	Kemp Lending a hand	1st coat of Mud	Jacuzzi Tub in Master Bath
I cant wait to get in here!	Main Bath	Front Steps Done!	Using Router For Trim Work
My New Laser Miter Saw!	One Window Sill Done	Ripping Some 6" Poplar Board	Living Room Windows Trimmed (Ready For Stain)
Window Complete

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