We had tons of activity today.  We had electrician, plumber, gutter guys, concrete team, and of course carpenters all going at it hard.

Tri-State builders pouring concrete pad out back today

Mike, Jeremy, and Vinny putting up beams in great room

Tri-State builders pouring concrete pad out back today

Mike, Jeremy, and Vinny putting up beams in great room

Superior Gutter team installing seamless gutters

Superior Gutter team installing seamless gutters

Craig wiring in wafer lights in media room

Spray Foam insulation going in the Media Room

Spray Foam insulation going in the Media Room

Perrin and Matt putting up the nickel gap around the fireplace place.  Note the 5x6 solid oak mantle in place for final measurements to get cut to length

Nickel gap going up on the fireplace frame

Siding all done

Decking done waiting for arrival of railing system

Decking done waiting for arrival of railing system

Jeremy, Matt, & Vinny installing composite decking

Jeremy, Matt, & Vinny installing composite decking

Siding on Media Room going up

Jeremy just completed building the raised seating platform.  The Media Room has raised platform seating additional outlets for plugging in the viewing chairs, specialty lighting and speaker system.

Mike cutting through from existing dining room into new Media Room.

All up and braced off

Vinny on the saw

Guys sheathing the exterior

Vinny, Matt and Perrin get ready to hoist one up

Vinny, Matt and Perrin get ready to hoist one up

Hauling the trusses inside

Yes it’s pouring and the guys are plowing through it

Side addition progress is great.  Walls framed trusses going up!

Side addition progress is great.  Walls framed trusses going up!

Guys framing up the gas fireplace.  This will be covered in nickel gap planking and painted.  It will have a 8x8 rough cut mantle

Jeremy hauling in a sheet of sub flooring to be glued and nailed down

Yep it’s pouring! Thank God for battery operated tools!

Matt

The Boss and Matt in the back stripping the existing wall off getting ready to cut through into the house

Perrin and Mike putting it up with the Boss looking on

Guys had to brave a horrible rainy day to get the floor system and sub floor down to keep the water out of the new basement

Guys had to brave a horrible rainy day to get the floor system and sub floor down to keep the water out of the new basement

We have the best roofing crew!

Pernich & Shelp

Big Matt sheathing the roof

Rear addition spray foamed.  Time for sheet rock

Rear addition spray foamed.  Time for sheet rock

the rear addition

Gutter and footing drains are in place

Guys are going to town on this two additions project.  Foundation for side addition goes in while the guys are finishing up the rear addition

Here, the walls are formed up and poured.

Vinny end of the day pick up

Vinny and Jeremy siding

Siding is a perfect match. Nice tie-in.

Siding is a perfect match.  Nice tie-in.

The Big Guy sheathing the roof

This project has been aided by the nice warm weather

Had computer issues so we haven’t posted in a while.  

Guys are kicking it!

Framing up rear addition

They are up

Vinny getting ready to send the next one up

Our wise guy Perrin waiting for next truss

Perrin setting trusses

Vinny saddles up

Tying in connector room to Great Room

Started framing first of two additions to this home.

This Great Room has 12-foot tall walls!

Guys squaring up first wall before we stand it up

Guys squaring up first wall before we stand it up

Mike, laying out doorway.

Vinnie

Every day is an adventure with this guy on the crew

Here comes the backfill.

Ready for backfill.

All insulated and ready for backfill.

All stripped and ready for insulation and backfill.

Walls all formed up for the Great Room addition. 

Guys stripping forms

Dusty strips forms and hauls them out

You never know what a day holds for you in this business!  Company dropped off our rent a jon at the wrong address.  They couldn’t relocate it for 5 days so we strapped it and dragged it up the road to the job site.

You never know what a day holds for you in this business!  Company dropped off our rent-a-john at the wrong address.  They couldn’t relocate it for 5 days so we strapped it and dragged it up the road to the job site.

You never know what a day holds for you in this business!  Company dropped off our rent-a-john at the wrong address.  They couldn’t relocate it for 5 days so we strapped it and dragged it up the road to the job site.

Guys poured the footers today

Guys poured the footers today

Guys poured the footers today

Footers all in set wall forms tomorrow and pour walls on Thursday

Trusses!

Off they come

Media Room addition will be where you see the excavator

Trusses arrived today

Danny and Mike layout the Great room addition

Mike and Vinny remove page fence so we can get equipment and materials back to the site of the addition.

Mike and Vinny remove deck stairs to make room for excavation.

We started what will be a great project today.  Two additions being built on this house.  One will be a Great Room the other a Media Room.  Excavation starts Thursday. Concrete on Friday!

Metal roofing going on

Sean, Vinny and Perrin ripping boards.

Mike bracing up end truss

Setting last truss.

Three days start to finish.  Pretty cool looking building

Three days start to finish.  Pretty cool looking building

Mike installing connector plates

Vinny and Jeremy building the last truss.

Mike building a truss using a 10 inch circular saw.  This baby is a monster but works great on timber framing.  We borrowed it from a fellow builder we work with.

Lane built his first house!!

Freight Train Lane paid us a visit today!  He’s a busy little man.

and it is UP!

All hands on deck for this baby!

Great day! We got all but one truss set today.  The first one was a 700 pound monster, rough cut, 3x6 ft. truss that took us a while to get positioned.  After that it was smooth sailing.

Started a new project today while we wait for trusses on the EJ770 job.

Here's Matt and Perrin, our newest team members, hauling rough cut 6x6 posts

Jeremy setting the post base plates

Perrin measuring the beam length

Matt on the other end

Posts set and it’s only 9:15

First double 2 x 10 beam going up.  A third layer will be added once they are in place.

Set of posts in with the structural Simpson plates in place

Mike and Jeremy attaching plates

3x6 angle braces going in

3x6 angle braces going in

Mike installing 8 inch Simpson timber locks into the angle braces

Nice looking rough-cut structure

Trusses tomorrow

Metal roofing on Thursday

Mike and Jeremy framing up a side wall

Working on getting the new dining room dried in so owner can take over and finish it as a DYI

Here's Vinny on the cut table today

Had two visitors today! Emma and Frieght Train Lane and they brought donuts

Shawn catching one end and Mike on the other

Jeremy swings in endwall truss

Matt, Perrin and Jeremy

Trusses are all up

Getting ready to swing it into place

Sloppy and chilly but got all the trusses, overbuilds and fascias up.

Sloppy and chilly but got all the trusses, overbuilds and fascias up.

Great progress!

Sean and Mike taping seams on sub flooring

Rear bedroom wall built, sheathed and ready to stand up

Taping seams

Mike rolling tape out

Guys standing up front wall

Guys standing up front wall

Vinny and Jeremy cutting wall sheathing.  This type of sheathing has a layer of one inch dense foam attached to it.

Vinny and Jeremy building wall

Coming along quite nicely. 

Teamwork

Perfect!

and it is out!

It's coming! 

It's not budging. 

Jeremy on the cut and break saw.  7 hours later and he’s almost got it!!

Guys getting wall ready to drop the chunk of concrete foundation wall out

Guys finishing sub flooring

Tri State team preparing floor for radiant heat in the slab

Great three days.  Deck with sun flooring all down and passage from new to existing basement cut through.

Mike running sub flooring on floor joists

Jeremy and Mike cutting passage way into existing basement from new foundation.  Sloppy messy work

Jeremy and Mike installing rim board

Jeremy and Mike installing rim board

knee walls going up

Mike attaching a ledger board

Vinny and Jeremy build second knee wall

Good progress today on this project.

Mike and Jeremy haul in a kneel wall.

Good progress today on this project.

Mike and Jeremy haul in a kneel wall.

Foundations first

All trusses in and dormer trusses cut in and installed

All trusses in and dormer trusses cut in and installed

Perfect ridge alignment

Perfect ridge alignment.

Installed trusses and got it all sheathed, taped and pretty dried in.  Roofers showed up two days later and got it shingled so we are dry!!

Jeremy and Kole (father son combo) ripping boards

Classic construction worker cutting pizza he brought in with his utility knife.  All good and great pizza.

We insulated the floor by installing cleats, pieces of OSB and spray foaming the edges.  Then we add two layers of solid foam insulation.

Guys installing sub flooring

Connor rolling the taped seams

Guys building walls

Our new lad, Connor.

Jeremy and Kole build triple 2x8 headers

Walls going up!

Vinny and Mike installing one of the headers

Header number two

Good days work

10 windows! This will be a fantastic room!

So Canada has a bonfire and we get this???

Mike, Jeremy and Vinny installing support for crown molding that will have tape lighting installed behind it.

Coffee bar cabinets installed

Squeezed in a happy Birthday for my brother Vinny.  Big 63 and still getting it done!!

Dan, Kole and El from Belknap Kitchen Center go over cabinet layout plans

Two truck loads of cabinets arrived today

Two truck loads of cabinets arrived today

Finished the sheet rock today.  Now we wait till it’s all taped and spackled then cabinetry gets set in place.

Here's Mike putting board up.

Finished the sheet rock today.  Now we wait till it’s all taped and spackled then cabinetry gets set in place.

Here's Jeremy finishing rock on the passage way between kitchen and dining area.

Guys installing 3/4 inch Tongue and Groove sub flooring.

Guys installing 3/4 inch Tongue and Groove sub flooring.

Guys installing 3/4 inch Tongue and Groove sub flooring.

Guys installing 3/4 inch Tongue and Groove sub flooring.

Mike and Vinny putting in one of the new windows

New windows going in

Vinny and Jeremy putting up sheathing

Here's Jeremy framing up for new double hung windows

Framed up one wall of former sun porch and removed 1 slider and two fixed windows and replaced them with four double hung windows

Guys framing up what once was a sun room to make it into the dining room

New window going in!

Old bay window being removed by Mike and Jeremy

New beam in and temp supports out

The guys positioning the beams

First of three LVL beams going in

First of three LVL beams going in

Jeremy framing up new wall

Craig taking out old wiring

Jeremy cutting into former laundry center to make more room for coffee bar

Temp support walls in place so we can reframe the wall separating the kitchen and former bedroom.  This wall will house a coffee/ wet bar, linen closet and a door way to the new home office.

Started back at this home to totally make over the kitchen

Here's Vinny, finishing the demo

Started back at this home to totally make over the kitchen

Here's Mike laying out the wall that will house the linen closet, entrance to home office, & coffee/wet bar area

Started back at this home to totally make over the kitchen

Here, the Dining room wall has been removed to make way for a huge kitchen with a fabulous island, coffee/wet bar and new dining area.

Lots of stuff happening as we begin to close this project out.

Doors and trim getting stained and polyed

Mike cutting siding

Vinny cutting LP window trim

Jeremy trimming out rear windows

Completing siding

Laundry room cabinets

Dan cutting cabinet filler strips

Vinny and Jeremy tweaking doors

This a funny Meme of Bill fighting a 100 foot compressor hose

Mike nailing up the first sheet on the rear

Beautiful day for siding.  Closing in on the rear of the addition

Nice hot asphalt on a chilly fall morning

Paved walkway on side of garage

Nice hot asphalt on a chilly fall morning

Driveway got the base coat of asphalt today.

rip rap retaining slope

rip rap retaining slope

rip rap retaining slope

Land scape fabric going down before the rip rap retaining slope

Hydro-seeding the back yard.

Land scape fabric going down before the rip rap retaining slope

On the left, the guys are installing soffit and fascia.

Guys doing soffits and fascia

Landscape fabric and drain piping in place, rip rap goes down tomorrow

Retaining slope all graded off

All sheet rock is up and 80 percent taped off

Cutting in for retaining wall

Mike up there doing soffits

Site work crew showing up to cut in retaining wall

Mike, installing the half-moon window 

Mike using template for half moon window

Guys installing last 3 windows

Guys installing last 3 windows

Site work crew showing up to cut in retaining wall

Super busy at KD1100!  Plumbers, electricians, tapers, HVAC guys, garage door installers, and site work crew all at once, all working around each other, all going very smooth.

Garage door guys, electrician, taper and our guys all in this shot  

Baker Garage Doors installing doors

Baker Garage Doors installing doors

Jeremy and Andrew cutting rock for garage

Insulated the ceiling of the garage and sheet rocked it so the overhead doors can go in on Monday

Insulated the ceiling of the garage and sheet rocked it so the overhead doors can go in on Monday

Insulated the ceiling of the garage and sheet rocked it so the overhead doors can go in on Monday

Insulated the ceiling of the garage and sheet rocked it so the overhead doors can go in on Monday

Insulated the ceiling of the garage and sheet rocked it so the overhead doors can go in on Monday

The Big Guy

Bill, putting up corner bead

Mike, screwing off sheets

The Big Guy

Boys are at it, sheet rocking like crazy!

Vinny, Jeremy and Mike sheet rocking the interior of the separation wall so the foam insulation can be sprayed in tomorrow

Stairs in now framing up the separation wall

Vinny and Jeremy framing up the mud room entryway

Mike

Stringers going in

Jeremy and Vinny framing up the ceiling in the mud room and laundry area

Had to hustle today.  Had to frame out the entryway from garage to the mud room and stairs leading to the attic.

Here's Mike cutting stair stringers.

Mud room and stair case platform all spray foamed

Scott running wires in garage

Progress is great on this project.  Plumbing and electrical is all roughed in.  Addition is 80% spray foamed, should be done tomorrow.

Mike and Vinny building  last wall and stairway platform for mud room and stairs to attic.

Progress is great on this project.  Plumbing and electrical is all roughed in.  Addition is 80% spray foamed, should be done tomorrow.

Thunderbuilt has a variety of tasks going on today.  Here's Vinny installing a bathroom window.

Had a great day framed out entire basement in preparation of wiring, plumbing and spray foam insulation.

Thunderbuilt has a variety of tasks going on today. 

Here's Scott wiring the garage.

Mike framing up a knee wall