And today was the day...

The day the carpenters finally came and started the structure!!! 

It is difficult to see but there are screws on the foundations to fix the big joists.

The first layer is done!

Let tomorrow be the day...

Yesterday the flattening of the soil was completed and we helped to lay the tubes for the water and the cables, as well as to distribute the gravel. Unfortunately, there has been another tomorrow for the carpenter, because there was a thunderstorm with lots of rain last night and the soil was too soft for the crane to go on it today. So let be tomorrow be the day to start to build the wood structure!!

Keep fingers crossed

The digger came and the soil is flattened. Actually to be precise, no digger was available so our consultant/constructor is doing it! I am grateful for that. Yesterday he didn't manage to finish, and the flattening and gravel laying has to still be completed today, so no carpenter... but tomorrow, so that's why keep the fingers crossed, that there aren't other tomorrows. I have to say though, I am feeling quite confident at this point. 

Most of the tarrain is flattened except where the electricity
and the water will go though

The pear tree between our foundation pillars
had to move...

Hopefully it will thrive in its new spot,
unfortunately the timing is not the best.
So far it looks nevertheless promising.

Fingers crossed

On Wednesday I wrote a bit a discouraged post with the title "No progress". While I was editing and about to publish it, some news came in and I didn't end up finishing it. 
As you remember I said the carpenter was scheduled for the 20th and before that the digger had to come to flatten the soil around the foundation pillars, nothing of that had happened by the 20th...
Up to Wednesday it was still unclear on when that all will happen. 
Then Wednesday  the news came, that the digger comes next Monday and the carpenter on Tuesday. That felt a lot better already, but I also wasn't feeling sure until I see it happen. I felt even better on Friday when the digger came to bring the machine for Monday, so it feels quite a bit more concrete. In the end it is just one week of delay of the current schedule, that is not that bad. For now I am waiting to see what happens Monday...It looks promising, but let's keep the fingers crossed anyway just to be sure ;).

Digger arriving

Our foundation pillars without the mold.

Another delivery...the last one, this time for real...

So in the end there was a 3rd truck load! The truck driver was right. I didn't really want to doubt him, but it was definitely less stressful to believe that they had made a mistake :). It arrived on Monday afternoon and the truck driver said, they were actually supposed to come on Friday but something went wrong, so even if he is technically on vacation he brought it that afternoon. To believe we had the complete house already delivered, gave me some peace of mind over the weekend, and to now have the confirmation to have the whole house on our property is definitely a relieve!!!

No delivery...

Today just a short update. The delivery that everybody announced for today did not come...So I am just hoping that the two truck drivers who told us that there would be another delivery were wrong and that the parts that are actually on our property are the whole house!
I just want to think that for now! Because as I said, they are closed for the rest of the month, and we need the parts this month! I looked at all the material and it is difficult to say, but they could be all the parts :).

And again! :)

Today again we had a surprise load of what turned out to be the second third of our house! We were expecting the second "half" of our house on Friday, however it turned out that there were two truck load left after Tuesday's. So today afternoon, just as I was about to leave, a truck with house parts with our name on it drove by our property and then back tracked, which is quite common, since our place does not seem to be recognized as an address in the GPS. This time we had still enough space and hopefully tomorrow the last third comes as expected and will still fit. I will let you know.

Surprise surprise!!!

Yesterday we were just having breakfast as we see a truck driving by our property with what at first glance looked like a load of wood. Nothing too particular, that happens relatively often, since there are a few building sites in the region. However, it came back and stopped at our property and at the second glance they were house walls and they had our name on it!!! We weren't expecting our house before next Monday!!!! We had some space left on our property but none of it was reachable with the crane arm of the truck!! In split seconds we had to find a solution, since the truck driver was already considering driving back with the house and come back for mid September, because next weeks many businesses close for the month for vacation. There was no way I could let this happen!!! The carpenter is booked for August 20... The only place that was realistic to put the house parts were where our trailer was standing. So quickly we moved all our stuff and the trailer with the help of our very kind neighbors and a few people that were around. So finally we could unload half of our house!!! What a day!!! Things are coming together!!! Gratefulness!!! 

And then after all the excitement with the house and all the work even more wood came!!! Most probably for our first floor and porches.  Fortunately this one we could fit on the other side of our property. 

I am sooo grateful they are all delivering before they close up for vacation!!!