Roy and Jane's Home Building Adventure

 Day 172  This is why we haven't had any work done in our house for the last several weeks!                     How much longer can they talk, dig, fill, re-dig, re-fill to connect the utilities. FYI, they started digging the trenches back on September 25, day 139.  And Roy is always watching. 

 Decided to add a few more pics after going over to the house today, lest you think nothing has been done inside.  Roy put up the TV mount and he's holding some pretty cool paneling (courtesy of Costco).   Walking over to the house is quite an adventure.  I've never been quite so close to this bad boy! The latest excavation: our electric conduit. 

 Day 170.  Well, as expected, but certainly not welcome, progress inside our house has come to a creeping halt.  Finding, trenching, laying, connecting the utilities - water, gas, electric and sewer, has taken longer than expected.  Part of it is the labor, and a lot of it is coordinating with both the city of Colorado Springs (gas and electric) and Manitou Springs (water and sewer).   But all is not lost.  Over the weekends, the deck railing was installed.  It had to be done on the weekends, because access to the house during the week was a mess!  

 

 Day 153; 22 days til end of October.  (I don't think we'll be in by then, but we're getting closer) Most of the activity of late has been outside; specifically trenching the easement for our utilities.  But last week, we did see some actual work on the house.   Including starting our deck!  In addition, had to include this picture.  One of the workers brought his adorable puppy with him. Not sure how much help this little bundle of energy was, but he sure was cute! Meanwhile.....almost all of last week and currently, they are digging up the easement to connect the utilities. Next they had to break up the street to connect to the main lines. And of course, connect it all to our house. It's been a slow process, and they are not near done yet, but we are getting there!