Inching up

The weather was mostly perfect for building this week, and we began inching up into the first floor walls.... at last.

This entry is a short one of mostly pics because I'm feeling a bit under the weather and eager to be early to bed this evening.

Here you can see those three courses that we got up. THough it's only 24" in height, it finally defines the first floor perimeter and gives a sense of a HOUSE at last.

One thing that held us back this week was getting the conduit for wiring the outlets into the walls.  It's more of a hassle than I expected.... so what else is new.  Here are two pics,  one of the electrical box fit into the wall,

and the other of what it looks like from the top

-- the "smurf tube" all hooked up so that wires can later be fed into the boxes -- making their way through the concrete after it's poured. 

Then there were the window bucks -- essentially wooden boxes that hold open the spaces where windows will later be installed.  You can see them here. (East wall of living room)  THere are more to come.

Here's an overall shot:



Be well, and let us hear from you....