Progress Thus Far on the House Structure

I took some pictures that show the carpenters' progress on the North Wall and the rebar/panel crew's work thus far.  The pictures start at the South East corner of the house and progress counterclockwise around the house.

This picture shows the South East side where the panels and first layer of horizontal rebar are complete up to the ladder top, and vertical rebar that you see is done. Two more layers of rebar to go (on top of the horizontal and vertical) and the panels to cover the ridge beam (which, in the final picture, you can see are not in place).

 The South side of the tunnel (pantry) has some of the vertical rebar in place.  As you can see, the wall of dirt is very close to the tunnel and has to be removed before the shotcrete process.

The North side of the tunnel is in about the same condition as the South side.  The wall of dirt is OK on this side.  The horizontal rebar on the top of the tunnel becomes vertical rebar on the main structure.

The North end of the East side of the main structure (from the tunnel to the North wall)  has one more panel to be put on.  It has most of the horizontal rebar in place.
 

The carpenters still need to finish the North wall, but we see lots of progress here.




















Starting down the other side, two rows of the four rows of panels are in place.  (There is also a row that covers the 'ridge beam' besides the 4 rows on each side.)  Vertical rebar is on the West-most area of the West Annex.












The Southern West side has the horizontal rebar in place on those two rows of panels.  There is a possible patch job to be done where the annex and main structure meet - the panel in the second row is not laying exactly right.  We will work it out.




 

 The view into the house from the South.