Still moving along

The septic tank was set today. It is a three compartment tank that is about 8 feet wide x 18 long x 10 deep and the top is about 4 feet underground. Air is pumped into the second tank to promote and feed the bacteria. The third tank has a basket of chlorine tablets to treat the water that is left and then there is a pump that goes to sprinkler heads that are in the wooded area behind the house that comes on whenever the water level gets high enough. That was probably more than you wanted to know about our septic system, but there you go.

 

The stairs and railing are completed and they look great. We also had the Brazilian cherry solid wood floors installed in the dinning/living room and study.

 

All of the bathroom tile is in also including the radiant heat floor in the master bath.

 

I created a new location for some of the pictures also at: http://family.webshots.com/album/561207017OFYisn?vhost=family if you want to take a look at the history of building the house so far.

 

It looks like we will move in near the beginning of June or sometime in June.

 

Cheers, Steve

Steve Aughinbaugh

Manager, Plano Engineering Sustaining
McAfee, MS 3S099
5000 Headquarters Drive
Plano, Texas 75024

972-963-7496 (office)

972-989-6770 (cell)

steve_aughinbaugh@mcafee.com

 

The stairs are going in

The back stairs are almost done and the front stairway is under way. Both stairs are wrought iron balusters with solid oak treads, risers and railing. The same railing will also go around the bridge and game room balcony. I added a couple of pictures of the back stairs and a picture of the garage doors while they were being installed. On the curved entry stairway it was interesting how they laminated it together and formed it to the curve of the stairway. I added a picture of this after they had taken most of the clamps off.

 

Cheers, Steve

Steve Aughinbaugh

Manager, Plano Engineering Sustaining
McAfee, MS 3S099
5000 Headquarters Drive
Plano, Texas 75024

972-963-7496 (office)

972-989-6770 (cell)

steve_aughinbaugh@mcafee.com

 

Red letter day!

The brick and stone is complete! The brick and stone mason finished the house today including the fireplace hearth and the floor of the porch. The stone and brick look great and the fireplace is impressive.

Cindy and I spent the day picking up the trash in the house, scraping the drywall mud up and sweeping. We are really getting tire of do that! While we were doing that the brick guys were finishing up these guys have work 6 days a week and 10 hour days for the past 4 weeks. They are some of the hardest working people that we have seen and they have excellent workmanship.

I am too tired to write more but I did post some photos of the brick and cabinets.

Cabinets, doors, brick and stone

Well, we have rolled into April now and the brick and stone is almost done. The front of the house is complete except for a few details. I have added a few pictures to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SteveNCindyHome. The brick layers are doing a great job. We decided to take the stone around and over the garage doors and around the back side of the garage to the corner of Nanny and Poppy’s closet. The arches over the entry look great also.

 

The cabinets are in. I added some pictures of them and will add a few more a bit later. The cabinets around the fireplace look great with the stone and wood. The closets are pretty neat as well. It is fun to be able to design the layout your closets. Our trim guys are just great and perhaps even artistic. The detail over the front door and the study French doors are very nice.  Most of the trim is done. Some crown molding and base still needs to be done and should be completed in the next few days.

 

We decided to install Bella Brazilian Cherry solid wood floors in the dinning/living room and the study. Oh, I just remembered and I have to get some pictures of this, but the study has fantastic looking oak beams on the ceiling that one of the trim guys built. So, things are moving along quickly. It looks like we may move in before Cindy’s birthday in June!

 

Enjoy the pictures.

 

Cheers, Steve

Steve Aughinbaugh

Manager, Plano Engineering Sustaining
McAfee, MS 3S099
5000 Headquarters Drive
Plano, Texas 75024

972-963-7496 (office)

972-989-6770 (cell)

steve_aughinbaugh@mcafee.com