Red Tagged

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

-Evan Esar

We were red tagged today for the final inspection. It was a mild disappointment considering the girls were ready to move in today and tomorrow. All of the notes were minor so I have hope for tomorrow. I hope that the inspector beats the furniture trucks to the duplex. Think green thoughts for tomorrow!!

Exterior Strides

I have neglected to show any photos of the exterior lately. Mostly because I think it looks the same everyday and the scaffolding is in the way. As I was parousing through the old photos I realized just how far we had come since that last exterior photo was posted. So here they are.

Paint, Stone & Tile

We're really coming along now. The paint really makes it look like it's finishing. The tile gets it even closer. The last week has seen one unit finish the first coat of paint and start on the tile. Doesn't the island look nice?

Golden Arch & Cabinets

We finished the tape & bedding and texture last week so today cabinets were installed!!!

The rain held off all day so we were able to make some progress outside as well. Saturday they set the arch and today layed the brick for it. They are calling for more rain this week which has really impeded our bricklaying. Hopefully we can keep up with the inside!

Duplex Sweet Duplex

After being out of town for a week, it was good to finally be back. While we were away, the insulation was installed, we passed inspection and the guys finished bricking the back. So today they moved to the front and the sheetrocking has begun.

Rusty graced us with his presence today too.

Take a Tour

Here's a special sneak peak of one entire unit. It's a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom duplex.

East Side - Our First Stone Gable

East Unit Entry

Front Entry

Dining & Kitchen

Dining & Living Room

Hallway to the Bedrooms

Bedroom #1


"Master" Bedroom #2

Master Bathroom

Shared Bathroom


Laundry Room

Bedroom #3

Seconds

We passed our seconds inspection today. What a relief. I only had to cut through a perfectly good pipe to do it, oops. So, we're ready for insulation after the long weekend. We should be sheetrocking in a week. Then, we'll be able to see some changes in the house.


Ramon and Vicente started the stone. I think it's going to really turn out nice. We'll go back today to see that entire panel. Not sure if we want to slurry the brick or not now.

Before the stone.

This big tree in the front seems angry that we're building here. It keeps throwing pecans at me. They are vicious. When they hit the roof they shoot out and if you're not careful it'll get you.

They've Still Got It

The veterans were at the house laying brick today. They've still got the touch.

No Huffing and Puffing will Bring This House Down

We got the green light to go ahead with bricking.

We got some rain so they made sure to dry the building in so we could continue with the interior.




We passed the sheating inspection but the inspector did insist that we add additional bracing to a few areas of the framing. With all of the bracing, brick, stone, CMU and rebar I am coming here in case of a huge storm. It's built for strength.

Setting Records

We are going too fast to keep up on the denton duplex. We passed the sheathing inspection today so we'll be bricking tomorrow. They should finish the roof tomorrow too and then we'll be dried in.

The front "door"

Kitchen, dining, living room

In other broken records, at my house, Stevie is trying to set the record for how fast a home can sell. It's not even on the market and she has a buyer. Here I thought this was a slow market. She's pretty good. It may have something to do with the amazing quality of home it is too.

Framing Away

The last two days, the framing has been going up super fast.

Day three of framing and it looks like a house.

Ramon and the boys were back to finish up the firewall. Ramon wouldn't let me work today so I was stuck with the supervisor position.

The city came and fixed the sidewalks and street where they had to cut for the sewer.

Here's proof that Kraft really was at the job and he does work occasionally.

This shot was taken yesterday afternoon.