Looks like they poured our driveway, our front porch and the walkway.
Our lot is getting more and more sloped. Looks like we might have to put some kind of retaining wall in eventually. Maybe some dirt. Our backyard WILL BE FLAT!
I am more impressed with the view out back now that it's summer and things are nice and green.
Can't wait for them to start framing.
I hope our neighbors are nice.
Well after a stint at another blog where I was told I was far too negative to represent Omaha, I told them to pound sand and find someone else to be Omaha's cheerleader.
Which they did.
And that's that!
The house construction is progressing nicely. I've been hearing rumors about there being framing materials on-site, so I'll head on over there tomorrow and take some pictures.
My parents have decided to sell their house in California and build a house here in Omaha. They've decided on the subdivision of Manchester Park, which looks like a very nice area. I'll follow the building of that house as well.
As a way of apology for my lack of updates, let me share this with you: Indian Thriller!
Hmmm. Looks like our lot might end up having a slight slope from left down to right. That would be unfortunate. It doesn't look like a lot of slope, but I'd rather have NO slope.
Of course, there's a HUGE pile of dirt on the lot to our left and they might use that to level out both our lot and the lot to our right. We'll see.
We're not quite ready to move our stuff in yet, as you can see, they've only just put in the concrete for the basement floor.
We went to NFM last night with our Berkshire Hathaway passes and ordered two couches for the family room, a refrigerator for the kitchen, a very large and MANLY bed for the master bedroom, and a table and chair set for the "breakfast nook."
Delivery, according to NFM, needs to be within 60 days. Because the house isn't going to be finished in 60 days, we'll have to call and reschedule the deliveries.
If Jamie forgets to do this, we'll have NFM delivering all these things to a house that, at that time, might not have a roof.
Looks like we have a garage floor. They also put the dirt back in after they coated the basement walls with the moisture sealant.
The big metal thing is the bracing for our basement daylight window. My escape hatch in case things go really bad.
The biggest drawback your basement has with a daylight window is that zombies can get in - only one at a time, though, so it's managable. Plus the window is small enough to secure, or you can just secure the top of the bracing.
We had some addendums our building coordinator wanted us to sign. One had to do with the fact that we're now going to get radon testing done.
Due to Omaha's conquering of Elkhorn, our future address has changed to better reflect Omaha's numbering system; which is to say, it's not as nice.
While we were out there, we had the wonderful experience of seeing a potential buyer interacting in a calm and reasonable manner with our building coordinator.
Just kidding. This guy was a jackass.
He was upset that certain homes were walkout and others were not, and he let everyone know about it. He insisted that he was fully qualified to determine how a particular lot should be labeled and that he wanted to talk to the foreman to give him a piece of his mind. He was doing all this with his four children present. His wife was also annoyingly bitchy.
I hope they're not on my street.
Regardless, I was able to snap some pictures of the progress Hearthstone Homes had made to my lot, so here they are:
Owen adores dirt clods. It was difficult to pry him away from the huge piles of dirt sitting on our lot. He will be heartbroken when he finds out the dirt isn't going to stay.
Just how dangerous is Radon Gas?
I've been warned by a concerned party (my mom) that Nebraska has a serious problem with radon gas. This concerned party (mom, again) was sure that radon was going to kill us all unless we took steps NOW to solve the problem.
This is an artist's conception of what the radon's assault on our family would look like. Notice my short arms. Both my children have longer arms than I do. This is a weird genetic flaw that can only be explained by radon attacks.
Hearthstone Homes gave us the option to have our own inspector check the site for possible radon gas. This would have been in addition to their own inspector checking everything out. We weighed the risks and decided to let Hearthstone Homes handle the inspecting.
If there's any evidence of radon after we move in, we'll have to get a system installed to deal with that. How much those are, I have no idea.
Here's a link explaining how to build a house that deals with possible radon buildup.
