The Slab is In

The slab finished as planned last Wednesday, it rained today so it looks a little damp. You can see the plumbing stubs for the first floor bathroom, the kitchen and the utility room at the far end of the slab. The lower slab in front is the garage. We will be adding on a little garage pad/ramp into the garage to the left later in the summer.

The enclosed rectangle is our attached greenhouse space, we will be building the concrete block walls for the greenhouse this weekend if the weather holds.

While we have been working on getting the slab prepared, Mike, our timber framer has been cutting the joinery for our timber frame. Here are a couple of pictures of two of the main posts which support our ridge beam. The frame is made out of local eastern hemlock.


As I mentioned above we hope to be building the concrete block walls for the greenhouse this weekend. The SIPs panels are due to arrive tomorrow morning and we will begin cutting wall panels tomorrow afternoon. To give an idea of what working with the panels is like, each wall panel is 6.5" thick, 24' long and 8' wide and weighs about 1000 lbs. We will be moving them around in a warehouse with fork lifts and doing most of the cutting with chainsaws and over-sized circular saws... should be a blast!