The big gaping hole

The majority of the demolition is done. They took off the old balcony and opened up the wall to the kitchen. 2nd story starts getting framed up tomorrow

the only thing keeping the bad guys out -- yikes! good thing our neighbor is on SWAT and has a couple of fierce K9s!

Progress!

This is much more exciting to watch than the basement process!

tomorrow or the day after, that window and surrounding wall to the left of the boarded up opening will be opened up - that's when things inside will get messy!

Starting the addition - demolition (and a bit of framing)

A "before" for perspective...

A clean and dry basement!!

from this...

to this...

to THIS!!!!

Almost "done"

The basement guys should be out of here in a day or two! So, the basement isn't "done" but it's clean, dry and most importantly, deep enough for Jon (and other tall people) to stand comfortably! We will not finish the basement now, but sometime after all of the upstairs work gets done....the framing is starting on Monday!

the builder will close this in and build the steps down to the basement

The floor is in!

such a huge milestone to have this done! now they are prepping all of the walls for "rough-casting" and then we will have a clean, dry basement!

in addition, the mason came and laid the block-work for the foundation of the addition. The frame should start to go up next week!

A week of progress!

creating the stairwell

Jon's used to have to duck to stand under this beam!

the mason delivered these to start laying the footer for the addition on Monday!