Duchess's New Home

We are building our new home ("we" in the sense the contractor is building, we are taking pictures). If you are curious about the process, we'll keep this blog updated on our progress. The posts appear in reverse order. If you are a new visitor, run through the previous posts (listed at the right) in reverse order. And PLEASE leave comments so we know who has been by. Just select Anonymous and sign your comment.

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Mr & Mrs Penman...your house kit is here. Good luck!

On a sunnier day last week we drove out to the construction site to see if anything was happening and, lo and behold, the house had "arrived." Somehow I can't imagine this is all of it, but who knows? Well, the builder knows, I hope...

house_kit

lumber

If you recall, last week we mentioned the truck with the roof trusses got stuck while trying to deliver. They had to unload them by hand to lighten the load and so the are stacked rather haphazardly.

roof_trusses

The builder called on Friday to say the framing will actually begin on Monday and should take only three days! That sounds amazingly quick to me but perhaps they mean only framing the exterior walls rather than all the interior walls also. We'll see...

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