January 3, 2012

A lot has happened since the last posting.  Underground water and electrical utilities have been put in, roof shingled, and house sided! Right now the fireplace is being built, the rough plumbing put in, and soon will be the HVAC systems.  Check out how the progress has gone.

Town of Southwick Water Department hooking up main line from road into our underground installed piping.

The white pipe sticking up is the "Meter Pit" that will house the water meter so the water company can read it from the road without having to drive up to the house.

After wiggling through the middle of the woods, the water line reaches the house. Only 840 feet back from connection at Laro Road!!

Shingles being delivered and then boomed up onto the roof.

Siding going on.  Looks pretty good!

 Installation of the septic system.

Tank delivered.

Infiltrators placed into the leach field.

Underground tubing that cable and primary electrical lines will run from Laro Road underground to the house.

 Inside of cement silo where Western MA Electric Company will place a transformer and drop the primary line down to a secondary line before sending it into the house.

Tom putting in the pull rope through the underground pipes.  Power company will use this pull rope to pull the electrical lines through the pipe from Laro Road the 800 plus feet back to the house.

November 5, 2011

Second floor done. Roof on house.  Wrap around porch almost done. The Trex decking for the porch is on site and should be installed Monday.   I have a lot of work do now as the winter storm dropped numerous trees across the driveway and all around the property.  Good thing I cleared enough land so nothing even came close to the house construction!

Second floor walls going up.  Also the basement floor got poured and the garage floor got poured!

Framing!!

A lot happening.  Framing started about a week and a half ago. First floor completed, second floor begun, and garage walls up!  Porch piers in place, so I hope that will be coming soon.  Basement and garage floor concrete to be poured this week.

Floor

 Front and back walls up.

Interior walls up. Living room looking towards kitchen and breezeway.

 Kitchen looking into office.

Kitchen looking towards eating area and living room.

Breezeway and garage up.

First floor framing still

Living room. Cathedral ceiling.

 Living room looking towards fireplace.

Living room looking towards front foyer.

Standing in foyer looking down hallway to back of house towards eating area.

Interior of garage. Rear door is 10' tall, 12' wide.  Dually should slide in there no problem!

Second floor.

 There will be an overlook from the upstairs hallway into the living room.

 Tom Fredo pouring cement into the porch piers that will support the wrap around porch.

Gate installed this weekend. Keep out the riff raff.

 Thank you for checking out our home. More to come as the week progresses!