Progress seems to be made quickly on a factory-built home. Here are the latest images from Laura at Kent Homes. The opening on the left is our studio window which will face toward the road. The openings visible down the side of the structure are the two kitchen windows. The flooring is laid before the…
Walls and ceiling moving into position. This is the roof structure with drywall in place. This is the inside side of our studio’s east wall. Michael’s computer will be in front of the window and mine to the right. This is beginning to take shape! Until next time…
Daily photos from Kent Homes’ production line. Apparently, this button lifts and lowers our floor structure onto the raised platform so insulation and finishing can be done on the underside of our home. Until next time…
In a recent post, I’d wondered at how the team at Kent Homes gets the newly built floor up off the factory floor and onto the tracks to move it along the line. Laura Maillet at Kent Homes has kindly provided an explanation with photos. Hi Deborah, I am happy to fill you in on…
What’s your address? We’ve learned that when you build a new house, you’re assigned a civic number only after the precise location of your house on the lot is finalized and the Location Certificate is issued. There is a Civic Address Coordinator at King’s County who determines what your number will be. We were offered…
This is our cleared and leveled property with driveway. The stakes mark out the location of our future house. The Postechs are scheduled to be installed next week. Work crews dug up the road to bring the sewer line connection across from the other side and the water valve has been installed. Unfortunately, we missed…
Photos From the Plant. When building a site-built home close by, visits to see the progress can be made frequently. With our home being built nearly 4 hours away, our excitement and curiosity is nurtured by our fabulously thoughtful Laura who, true to her word, is sending us daily photos of our project. With the…
Our lighting orders have been placed and here is our selection of fixtures and our lighting plan for our little home at the edge of the orchard. If you’d like to look more closely at this plan, click on it for the larger version.My main objective for this lighting project was to strike a balance…
Site preparation is underway! Our lot has been cleared, culvert installed, driveway created. Shane MacLean, owner of ASR Excavating and Landscaping had it all done in less than 1.5 days. Here’s the ground crew: Jamie, Dawson, Scott, Shane (on the phone) and Jeff from Kent Homes. Jamie and Scott are our Postech guys who’ll be…
Word is in – the site prep work starts in two days. Yay! I can hardly believe it! I poured over the final plans last night until well past my bedtime. The last little corrections and adjustments are being done before the production drawings begin tomorrow. And then changes and corrections will be quite difficult…