Homes In Progress

This Project:

We are extending the kitchen and the master bedroom.

Log cabin just before demolition work for addition.

Demolition started

Demolition is finished and ready for the basement to be dug.

The footings are poured and ready for basement walls to be stood.

The basement walls and floor are newly poured.

All of our floors are cut to prevent cracking.

The walkout walls are laid out and ready to be built.

Even the strongest guys need help.

The basement is almost complete and ready for the floor joists.

The basement is complete.

The exterior walls are complete and braced up.

The main floor walls are finished and ready for second floor to be started.

The basement and first floor are complete.

Installing the log floor joists for the upstairs floor.

Aaron is laying out the beam so we can put the rest of the log floor joists on.

The floor joists are on and ready for the floor boards.

The second floor is finished.

This is the base of the fireplace. It's ready for concrete.

Brick fireplace in progress.

Bill and Ken are hard at work designing this brick fireplace.

The start of a gazebo roof.

Gazebo roof from a birds eye view.

Ground view of the new addition.

Job foreman Aaron Strouss.

Dan and Aaron are working hard together nailing up rafters.

Dan Strouss Jr. nailing rafters together.

Newest employee Dan Allen hard at work destroying an interior wall.

New master bedroom almost framed in.

Progress on the gazebo roof.

The framing is done on the gazebo roof and it is being insulated.

We sprayed a foam insulation in this roof.

The roof is ready to be covered up.

The roof is covered.

New master bedroom addition framed.

Demolition on the master bedroom has started.

Dan helps with the dirty work too.

The wall is gone and clean up has begun.

The new master bedroom.

The house is framed and ready for windows.

The windows are in and looking good.

 

The next phase:

Next we will be removing this roof and building a dormer across the south side of the house to match the master bedroom roof.

Now we are ripping the old roof off.

Dan Jr. is cutting the roof in sections.

The second section being lifted off.

We replaced the roof with this wall.

The rafters are on and ready for roof boards.

The second part of the roof is dried in.

Oops!!!

Thank goodness for Jimmies.

Thank goodness for Strouss Construction.

Every body has bad days!

On 8-9-06 we started taking off the rest of the roof.

Dan Strouss and Dan Allen are taking the roof apart so we can lift it off with our JCB.

Dan Sr. and Dan Jr.

Two sections are off, only one to go.

The last section of roof is being lifted off now.

The old roof is off and the rafters are going up.

By the end of the day on 8-9-06 we had the house dried in.

Before

Now

The dormer is done and what a difference it makes.

Now we're back on the inside building walls and preparing the inside for the subcontractors. We raised the floor in the master bedroom so we can run the heat runs, plumbing and electrical in the floor.

We are hiding the foundation by putting stone on it.

Now we're back outside. We are building this eyebrow across the back of the house.

We started the log siding today.

The old roof is off and the new one has been started.

This shingle is a Presidential Shake from Certain Teed. This shingle was designed to replicate wood shingles.

The north side is almost complete. We just have to do the steep part.

Birds eye view of the west side of the house. We are in the process of redoing the porch roof.

Ground view from the front of the house.

The stone is finished on the foundation and started on the chimney.

We are also stripping some of the wall so we can update them.

We cut the existing floor in the basement to add some plumbing for a new bathroom.

Aaron and Francis are placing metal around the edge of this roof to help prevent water leakage.

The final section of roof is off and ready to be shingled.

Even on the roof Aaron takes care of business (on the phone.) And Dan works!

The hardest part of the roof is done. It wasn't bad at all.

Dan Jr put the final touches on the front of the house by finishing this section of the roof.