A whole lot of nothing...

As far as taking pictures of stuff, there is a whole lot of nothing to take pictures of. The weather has not cooperated on the weekends( it rained all day Saturday). So, we spent the day at a building material auction, again, and had to pick some of it up Sunday because of the rain. We were able to get several light fixtures,2x4s, locks and door handles,interior doors, and some ceiling joists. There were other things here and there but we only spent $1000, and had two 16 foot trailer loads plus two trucks loaded down twice. We are really hoping the weather will be better this weekend and we can get more done.

Finally the concrete is done!

Thankfully, we are blessed with a few good friends who are willing to pitch in and help along with Chris' brothers and dad. The concrete started coming at 7 am and 4 trucks later we were done. It still took all day to finish it with a power trowel but we are so very thankful it is done!!

This time we rented a power screet and it made the job much easier. It was a well spent $60 rental. As well as $60 for the power trowel.

The back half of the floor.

Finishing up pouring the front half.

Ta-da! The front of the house.

The back of the house. We figured it all out and after the gravel ,rebar, radient floor tubing and concrete 2400 square foot of concrete floor cost us less than $3 a square foot. 

Getting ready for concrete pour #2

My mom , Hannah and I spent the last two days tying and laying out all the rebar between the grain bins and in the area behind the bins.

This is a view of the holes that were cut out of the second grain bin. The hole on the right will be the stairwell upstairs. The hole on the left will be part of the utility room.

This is the opening for the stairs and you can see the wall for the utility room.
Work on the house has been going kind of slow lately. Chris has got so much going on at work and the weekends have been so hot. We are hoping to really start working on the structure in between soon. It will seem like more is getting done then. Chris did end up at a building material auction over the weekend and bought more building material. He spent about $3000 and bought $12,000 worth of material, so it was well worth it!

Cutting out the big doorways

Well, this weekend did not go quite as planned so we didn't get as much done as we would have liked it too. It has been really hot around here and Saturday was around 100 degrees. Working in the grain bins was too hot that day. The next day was a bit cooler so we were able to get the framing in for the second level and then cut out the large holes that will lead to the rest of the house. 

The hole on the right will be the opening into the living room. The hole on the left will be another opening into the living room and also hold the stairwell leading upstairs. The I beams that make up the framing for the upstairs floor we were able to buy at an auction for 17 cents a foot. We were able to buy most of what we needed for both grain bins for a few hundred dollars. You can also see the beams over the doorways that Chris built. He had to cut strips of plywood and glue them together and screw them to make it fit the curve of the wall. We had to buy 6 sheets of plywood to do the headers for both grain bins and that cost $200. He then bolted it with lag bolts from the outside through the boards. We were not going to frame the floor for the upstairs yet but after talking about cutting away so much of the ground level support we thought it would play it safe and frame that first.

The window in the second bin and some of the framing in there got done.

One of the doorways has a header now.

The sunset looking out what will be the front of the house.