Moonlit Fur Chronicles: Torn Fur

It would take roughly twenty weeks to build our dream home. Ash and I finalized the blueprints. We had taken a trip to see the property. It was gorgeous, lots of woods and trees, and there was a large lake. I was so happy. We got all the proper permits and such. It was incredible to watch the huge excavators tear up the ground to build the foundation of the house. Just the dig work alone took a week. Next, the concrete trucks arrived with their wall frames. They set up the frames where the foundation walls were supposed to be. They poured wet concrete into the frames. It would take about three for all that concrete to dry out properly.

After the concrete was nice and dry, the next step was framing. The construction crew built the frame or skeleton of the house with wooden or metal beams. This was the first step that actually looked kind of like a house instead of a huge hole in the ground. Each wall had windows that needed to be cut out of the frame. It was easier to build the frame with windows holes already cut and lift the frames into place. Once the frames were in place they had to be screwed together with long screws so they wouldn’t fall down. The framing process lasted two, possibly three weeks.

Mechanicals were the next step, all the plumbing pipes, electrical wires, air conditioning and heater tubes were installed. Anything and everything that hides behind drywall was built during this phase of construction, usually took about two weeks to complete. Insulation and drywall, building the actual walls and hallways took about two weeks.

This is boring. Skip to the next chapter already.