Flooring platform is done. A lift truck arrives to help with the heavy lifting.
Completed dining room raise showing beefed up kitchen protection.
The first wall is up. The gap is to accommodate the coming steel framing we need to support the large open room.
From the backyard you can see the mudroom framing. No east wall yet.
The mudroom and main entrance, porch yet to come.
The mudroom floor framing is going in. It sits on a couple of precast concrete piers. Glue-lams carry the loads.
Mudroom joists going in.
The south wall gets constructed on the deck. The headers go all the way across because the windows go all the way, about 25′.
The first wall (the south one) is taking shape on the deck.
The header is insulated. How modern!
In mid February the floor framing went in. The formerly-lowered dining room got a short wall to raise it. The exposing plywood panel covers the wall where insulation was added. The insulation was need because it was apparently removed from that corner of the house when the addition was put on. That was formerly an exterior wall, but no longer. Our kitchen pipes froze creating a minor problem and a major battle with an appliance repairman.
The dining room is being raised a couple of feet. The family room, about 8 inches.
A new entrance to the new crawl space was added.
Our framer is pretty precise. Here he shims the subfloor to make it perfectly level.