March 31, 2006
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The second-floor lumber has arrived! Half of it has taken up residence in our kitchen.
The rest of it is outside in the front yard.
It's actually very cool to realize that our house HAS an "outside" now. A very little while ago, it provided no shelter at all.
At least some of our lumber will (I hope) be spared from the rains due soon.
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It is amazing to watch your house come together. We watch that Extreme Home Makeover show and see it go up in a weekend...but that's unnatural...it takes much longer to put a house together...even longer to make it a home. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Deana!
Yes, I've actually heard an interesting "rest of the story" anecdote about one of those home-in-a-week made-for-TV building frenzies. There were a lot of problems as the house settled, plumbing backed up, etc. Oversights as simple as someone forgetting to remove the protective cap from a vent pipe on the roof, to major problems with concrete slab thickness variations (don't know how they fixed that one: the house was already sitting on the slab!).
Well, we thankfully won't have any "they moved TOO fast" problems. Just a few of the "oh, so that's what happens when X and Y are delayed for so long" sort of problems.