Foundation Footing completed

Hello Everybody,

Today the final portion of the foundation footing was completed.  This was supposed to be done last week, but the tree removal had to be done first.  With that tree out of the way, we are getting a lot more light in our office!  I'm sure Mr. Squirrel is not happy though. 

Once the foundation footings are set, we should see some more progress in the building God Willing.

Not much to see in the pictures today, but here they are anyway:

3/4 of the foundation footing from last week:

Poured up the south portion of the foundation:

Much more visibility of our building now that the old building is gone and the tree is down.  Now I have to get rid of the old fence.

OK, that's all for now.  Hopefully we will be moving quicker soon.

Big old tree removed today

Hello Everyone,

We now have the foundation footing in.  In the process of digging the space for the footing, some roots were damaged of the huge maple tree next to my current dental office.  The contractor recommended we remove the tree now because if it dies later and needs to be removed, it will be a lot more difficult to remove.  I was hoping to keep the tree, but alas it's not going to survive.  Plus there was concerns with the roots damaging the new building in the future or damaging the side entrance sidewalk. 

So today the big tree was taken down.

Wow, the current building is really exposed now.  No tree and no building blocking the view.  They should finish up on the foundation work this week now that the tree is down.  I did want the stump to remain.  I plan on placing a table top on top of it and making a picnic table out of it.

After foundation work, they will work on the plumbing.  Stay tuned.

NKS

House removed

Hello everybody,

Today is Monday, July 15 and on Friday the house and all the debris had been removed.  There is a big hole in the ground where the basement was.  Today, they are removing a tree and shrubs and any concrete left from the basement, getting the site ready for foundation work.  Hopefully we will be ready for the foundation work this week.

Here are pics:

House being demolished

House demolished:

House debris cleared:

Hole in the ground:

 My son, Khaled and daughter, Nora checking out the construction site.  Ahmad, my nephew is there too.

OK, will post more pics once the foundation work starts!

NS

Building demolition today! Official start of construction.

So finally the big day when we started the building demolition!  The last couple of days the demolition crew was stripping the building from the inside.  All the trim and doors were taken down, as was the old furnace and any left over cabinetry.

Using the huge claw, the demo crew crushed the back shed, the side and front porch.  The demo crew took apart the third floor/attic manually in order to prevent the building from toppling over to the neighbor's property, or over our dental office!  The building was not completely demolished.  Tomorrow they will finish the demolition.

Here are photos from the demolition:

So we are finally getting the project going!  Stayed tuned tomorrow, hopefully the whole building will be leveled.

NS

Start this Week

Hi Everyone,

So God Willing we will finally start this week!  It took a while to get Consumers Energy to shut down the gas and electric, but that was done last week, then there was the July 4th holiday.  Today the demo crew will strip down the inside of the house to prepare to the demo, hopefully on Wednesday.   I hope to post pictures of the demo this week.  I will consider the demolition day to be the official start of the project.  I can't believe what is involved in just getting all the permits and paperwork just to start! 3 months time. Stay tuned.

NS