Construction Has Begun!!

AHHHH!!!!!  Construction has begun here at the Bandermann abode!  

This whole process has been in the works since last year (talking and discussing plans) and we've finally begun (3/19/14)!  We've already had some major delays....snow, rain, freezing temps, and more rain!  We've actually had water in our basement around 8 or 9 times since Christmas because of a crack in our basement wall that decided to flood everything and NOW we have water coming in because of construction to the house.  Oh the JOY!  We've spent countless hours vacuuming up water, ripping up flooring, shifting all our stuff, and cleaning off water logged items.  Thankfully we've had help because it's been a mess!  BUT we are thankful that there is an end in sight....now if we can just get some good weather!

Here's the front plan and renderings of the house.  We are adding on a dining room, foyer, bumping out the girl's bedroom (all in the front), and adding two closets/sitting area in our master bedroom.

This image shows the master bedroom closet addition

Our floor plan.  The areas with dark black lines will be the addtions

Here's a picture of the side of the house before demolition.

He's placing drain pipes in the front and sides of the house to help some of our water issues.  

Here are the big slabs of concrete from our sidewalk!

And here's little Charli meandering around the job site while my dad is sealing the basement wall. 

Our house with the front porch railing tore off

And then our whole porch came off!  This stage was a little hard for me knowing this is really happening and that our house is getting ready for a facelift.  Can you tell I don't do well with change?!  Ha!  

This is the construction team pouring the footers where the house will set.  Jason is a little devastated about his beautiful lawn.  He's still shocked over the damage that a lot of rain and just being under construction can cause. :(

A look down at the footers

We do a lot of this...

And as if house construction isn't enough....our solar panel project is finally underway (we've been waiting since October for this to happen).  The panels will be going on our barn in the back.

The plan is to have no electric bill!  Let's hope that really happens.  

So as you can see....lots of work going on here!