It's raining again. Everything is wet...

It's raining and there is standing water everywhere.  This opening is for the kitchen bay window.

The wood out in the rain on the driveway.

The new wood indicates an option for a ceiling.  We're thinking more of a coffered ceiling.

The ceiling joists in the family room are installed.

Water from the second story falls on the major support beam.

The stairwell is being demolished.

This is the remaining room to be cleared.  Beth expects to get this completed tomorrow.

The view out the second floor window.  Those are the tops of the family room ceiling joists.  The living room is further out and lower.

View from the old master bedroom.  Pretty wet.

A bit more progress before the rain

Ceiling joists get hung from the support beams in the living room.

The family and kitchen from the half bath area.

The plywood has been added to the back walls.

The upstairs bathroom is mostly gutted now.

The upstairs bedroom is also mostly gutted.

A view of the construction from the upstairs bedroom window.

A view of the large beam from Calis room.

Main supporting beams for ceiling joists.

beams are going up

More framing.  The frame for the big patio door is up.

Packed the earth around the balcony pier bases.

This is in the 'great room'.  The large beam defines the ceiling height.

This is in the living room.  The large beams define the ceiling profile.

Another picture of the living room ceiling beams.

The hallway from the entryway.

From the kitchen.  The roof line and ceiling joist hangers.

This is a difficult week and sad week.

Rain continues, more demolition

A break in the rain and in between softball practice and a soccer scrimmage for Cali.

A strongwall in the front room.

Demo starts on the stairs.  This is from the old master bedroom.  The wall that was on the right of the stairs has been removed.

The upstairs have been cleaned out and demo starts.  First the walls com off.  This is looking from the old entrance towards the northwest corner.

Cali is standing to the left of the old closet.  Behind the closet is the bathroom.

Cali at the bottom of the old stairs.  The carpet has been removed.

Looks like a completed strongwall.

A completed main vertical support structure.

The first engineered header is placed.

Raining again and more concrete

The foundation for the washer/drier.

The foundation that plugs the old HVAC access.  A shear wall will be attached (on the inside).

The foundation for water heater room.  Looking good.

Everything is wet, but they still work.  More rain is due.  Beth has finished removing stuff from the room upstairs just in time.  Matts crew can move inside and start ripping out the old carpets, etc.  I'm sure they'll appreciate staying out of the rain.

Doing some detailed demolition work. 

The concrete for one of the major vertical support beams.  This looks good too.

More foundation work

Matt's flowers.  The walls are getting covered to protect the insides from the potential. rain.

These are the large engineered beams to support the large spans.

General pic of the current state of the framing from the back of the house.

This is the preparation for the next concrete pour.  The piers for the second story balcony.

This is the new foundation framing for the water heater room.  The foundation is on top of the sewer pipe that were discovered in earlier posts. The hole inside the room is described in the next pic.

This is the special foundation for our large front load washer and dryer.  The back will be supported by the existing foundation and the front by three piers.  The pier will sit on the concrete that will be poured in the frame seen.

This is the preparation for the concrete foundation for one of the major supporting members.  The vertical beam drops through the floor and will be directly supported by the to be poured concrete pad.

This is the view out the girls bathroom window.  The neighbors large RV garage was converted into a small house.  It has very high windows.  Our neighbor raised the fence, but not enough.  I'll fix that later.

This is the inners of a strong-wall.  It starts with large bolts that get glued with epoxy into the foundation.  There are several other connecting parts that participate to create the finished wall.

This is another major supporting member that is prepped for foundation pour.

These are the lesser engineered beams that are waiting assignments.