I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!House construction thread: Samples for cabinet fronts for the pantry. Just say no to graige!
The brightest red is an exact match to our coffee machine, but right now I think I'm feeling the marigold??!
Get wrecked*!
*actually get slowly and methodically deconstructed, saving as much material as possible.
We are now prepared for when the slow-and-methodical deconstruction process is over.
Construction update: first delays of the project!
- Because of linemen going to help with hurricane recovery down south, it has taken three weeks to get power disconnected from the existing structure. So the excavator is just siting in the driveway waiting. Supposedly it will be disconnected today.
- Because of the threat of the dock workers strike, our windows were not loaded onto a ship from Germany on Sept 27 like they were supposed to be. As far as we can tell they're still waiting in port in Hamburg right now.
Best case scenario, we're running about a month behind schedule now. Windows are on the critical path. Transit -> wall fabrication -> delivery to site -> raising -> roofing.
Debris is all gone, now we're embiggening the hole. The right-hand edge of the pit is the depth we're going for everywhere. A lot of dirt is gonna come out.
Schedule update: they never found the windows in Germany, but we did find them on a boat in the Atlantic. They are due to arrive in NYC the beginning of next week, which means we can hopefully begin fabricating walls the first week of November.
Hole continues to be embiggened.
And now we go back up!
Sealed, insulated, just beginning partial backfill, and now with snow @dev
Big bay window that weighs about a ton and has to be installed on site.
I would say “raw materials go in one side, houses come out the other,” but because there are three intertwined production lines, the raw materials actually kinda start in the middle.
James Widman
Tom Forsyth