Road base and a clean lot

Chava working the drive.

Boat shed to the left and 2 car carport to the right (attached).

Our swooping grand entrance will be dressed up with an apron towards the end.

Chava came by today with a co worker and cleared all the forms/rebar off the lot. We established the basic grade for the driveway (roadbase) and some positive drainage for the back of the house/carports.
Our framing begins Tuesday morning (early) with trusses following Wednesday.

The view just off of Minnie Dr.

Our deck footings prior to pouring

Our 4th grade intern is super into it!

We ran into a little snag with our trusses (as in they weren't built). After a little breach of contract/lawyer speak we will have our first drop Tuesday and the trusses arriving Wednesday. Patience...

Forms Down!

Northern rear view of the slab.

South rear view

The forms are being knocked down today and framing will begin tomorrow.

The humidity is with us as is the heat, as this Texas weather is officially back again.

That poor, pour concrete

Charlie and Chava

The pump truck showed up around 4 AM much to our neighbors chagrin. Rudy and the boys are wrapping up the main slab currently.

Floor Plan

I've received a few requests for the floor plan so here it is. If you click on the image it will open up and allow for a closer look.

We had about 2 inches of rain yesterday with a good bit of wind and a little hail to boot. Pouring the concrete has been pushed until Saturday-we should have plenty of time to dry out.

It's more of a wet drought

Rudy and his crew enjoying the weather this morning.

We are looking to pour our foundation Tuesday after we've had Monday to dry out (fingers crossed). Javier Martin (JM Structural Engineering, Austin, TX -contact info. available upon request) braved the slippery streets of our fine town to come out for our pre-pour inspection.
We resolved a few incidentals and are ready to pour.
I need to mention the person responsible for our renderings (Justin Campbell-intern for J.C. Schmeil- contact info available upon request). Justin was very professional and accommodating.

I highly recommend both Javier and Justin.

Further explanation

Back of the house and master bedroom

The back door and stairs will exit to a deck built around the live oaks behind the house

A very special thanks to Ben @ ModernAustin.com for featuring our rendering and blog information today. We actually found J.C. Schmeil via Ben's site, and for that we thank him.

I suppose a better description of our focus and project are in order. We are building on 3 individual lots (2 of which will be for sale). The lots are 75x180 ft. Having said that, we wanted to create a feeling of privacy by placing the houses on the back of the lots. We plan on staggering the second house (lot 8, building on 9 currently) so as to not block any of the views. This house was designed with Lake life in mind (boat storage and outdoor entertaining). I don't know much about Feng shui but I do know that we have the water element covered(stones throw to Lake Austin, 2 boat ramps in the neighborhood). The shed style roof is south facing so solar is an option that will be available.
We went with an inverted floor plan so the canopy/treehouse feeling was taken full advantage of.

I truly wish I could enjoy this cool/wet weather that is currently gracing our lovely town but I'm afraid concrete is on my mind.
And with that I bid you adieu

More to come...

7 day outlook: wet

Upon reviewing weather it looks like we are anticipating rain for the next week. The good news is the rebar is almost complete.

Rebar

The poly is on and the rebar is being tied today. We are anticipating rain for the remainder of the week, so it looks like Tuesday will be the day for pouring. 'Fingers crossed that the weather moves on.

Everybody's working on the weekend

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A little time to smell the flowers.

Rudy, PePe, and crew enjoy a well deserved break.
Rudy and PePe and their crews have been swinging for the fences since we started. I highly recommend them. Their contact information is available upon request.

The footings for the deck.

The neighborhood inspectors are terribly irregular with their pop-in inspections.

Poly is on the slabs.

PePe and his crew hard at it.

The main is in and sleaved

Hot and cold are in.