The back wall pour completed yesterday as planned and the bills arrived today.

Our builder has started the framing of the second floor. Here is a picture of the lake side wall taken by John Gregg.

The second floor retailing wall form has been completed and the plan is to do the pour tomorrow morning. The road will be closed from 7:30 until 11:30 am. Thanks to John Gregg for the picture.

We just received the BC Surveyor’s Certification of Location of the Foundation, along with the bill. We also received word that the windows and external doors are complete and can be delivered at any time.

Our builder put the second storey floor in place and has started working on the form for the top section of the retaining wall. Unfortunately the rebar people were not available this week so the form cannot be completed. It would have been good to have it done because the weather is expected to warm up considerably at the end of this week.

Sandra Broughton was kind enough to send us some pictures of the progress.

After taking a Christmas break, our builder has started back at it. He is currently working on the first floor and doing the floor system of the second floor.

We had much discussion about the stairs going between floors. Our builder suggested that using a half wall instead of railings would be less expensive. We decided on putting a half across the stair opening in the great room and putting a wall along the side of the upper section of the stairs instead of railings as we had originally planned. There will be railings on the landing and lower section of stairs. See pictures below.

Our build would like to get the backfilling done so he can put up scaffolding to work on the upper floor but it has been too cold put complete the application of the damp proofing on the foundation.

We made an attempt at getting the webcam working again but we only got one picture. Fortunately, our neighbour John Gregg took these pictures.

A new camera has been ordered but it is not expected to arrive until Jan 13th. Then we need to get it to Summerland. So we could be without webcam pictures for a while yet,