Progress

We have progress.  As of July 5th the following things have happened:
-our old basement has been removed,
-a crawlspace was added,
-walls were pored,
-Steve and I tared the walls on a 98 degree day,
-back filled around new basement, 
-have sewer and water hooked up.

Today they are removing all the excess dirt and working on putting in the basement floor.  They think by early next week they will start framing. We have one sticky issue that needs to be resolved.  We kept the garage so we would not have to loose its location ( right on property line), but we are adding onto it so they need to figure out how to add the additional flooring without accidentally knocking down the building.

We have several decision to make and they are not as easy as I thought they would be.  There must be 100s of different types of flooring to choose from, kitchen cabinets are crazy expensive, and who knew that picking out molding could make you want to live in a tent along the river.

All in all we really are excited and very glad that we are sooooo close to the building site (across street) that we can see what is going on most days.

What is to come

We have lived in Missoula for almost 11 years and we have decided that we love what Missoula and the state of Montana has to offer us so we are staying awhile longer.  9 years ago we bought a home in the middle of Missoula and have loved being in this home but we have been given an opportunity to relocate to a larger space here in town.  We now have 2 lots which is the normal size of a residential home  but now we have the chance to have 3.5 lots.  The larger space has been in the same family since the 40s and the children were hoping to sell to someone who would not subdivide the property and build apartments.  After much thought we decided we would take the chance and purchase the property.  The property had a 608 sg ft home which turns out to be a log home under the stucco siding due to this fact we can not add to the home so the home and a few very large trees have been removed.  We asked the local home supply recycling center to deconstruct the home it took them 8 days to remove and recycle all material from the site.  We have been left with a basement of 400 sg ft that can not bee  used due to the fact the walls are falling apart.

So here we go - Basement

First day they took out the old basement and prepped for crawlspace.  When I saw it the first day I thought boy does not seem to be too big.  I was told just to wait. So over the next five days they dug, leveled, laid forms and pored concrete.  They will have walls done by weekend and WE will be sealing them on Monday.  Then comes the plumbing and floors.  They think they will start framing in three weeks.