Between this post and the last one has been 3 weeks of frustration and nothingness. We poured the floor a week later than scheduled because the radiant floor didn't pass the inspection and then it rained the rest of the week so they couldn't get the trucks in. Then, when we finally got the floor poured we had run into a scheduling conflict because the time had run into another job he had already started on. So now it's 3 weeks after the pour and we're finally ready to get started framing. Materials for the basement framing arrived today.
Most of the framing is pretty conventional. The only difference is the engineered i-joists instead of regular floor joists. Actually, now-a-days i-joists are commonly used because they are much easier to get in consistent sizes, they don't warp and contract causing squeaky floors. We don't have them, but some of the new i joists even come with pre-cut areas to run ducts, electrical and plumbing.
There are several other things I wanted to share. One, as a software developer I am used to project tracking software. I ended up using one called PivotalTracker. It is simple but definitely good enough. It also has features like the ability to predict your end date given your current rate of completion. Ours right now is going to finish up at some point in 2013. But that should pick up as our builder gets in there and we can stop waiting on contractors to get started.
This weekend we'll be putting up a cable gate on the driveway. Apparently someone decided they would park in our garage(that's really just concrete footings at this point, but still... who does something like that? So far nothing has come up missing but we're not taking chances.
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