Step 7 - Walls go up

The next to go up was the walls... this process only took one afternoon, and was quite interesting to watch. The girls managed to sleep through most of the hammering... until they began sawing off the roof overhang. Apparently that shook the house enough to catch their attention.

Wall 1 goes up...

What a mess! You can see missing over hang too...

Wall 2 and initial rafters go up after lunch...

Step 6 - Front Deck is gone

The front deck/step didn't take much to remove. It basically fell off the house. The new deck will be three times larger and much more stable! I don' t think those footings are going anywhere.

Step 5 - Sunroom Floor

Once the footings were adjusted to the right height, the framing of the floor moved quickly.

Step 4 - and back one step

Now that the footings are dry, the framers thought they could get started... until they realized that the ground was never leveled before the footings were poured... making some of them a few inches too high for the sub floor. This took an extra day or two to work out and a new framing crew was assigned to the project.

Step 3 - Cement

After much trial and tribulation, we finally received the permits needed to pour the cement. It took nearly three weeks!

Step 2 - Holes

The next step in our adventure... putting five foot holes in the yard!

Ok, so I'm not too educated in the construction lingo, but they tell me these "holes" are called footings and they will hold the weight of the sunroom... and the new front porch.

The kids are pretty intrigued by all this... I find it ironic that the movie of the month on Disney is "Holes." A great one to watch if you haven't gotten a chance yet... DVD comes out Sept. 23.

Step 1

Our first step was to figure out how get all our thoughts organized and then to find someone who could do it all. After doing some checking on prices, options, and what realistically we could afford, we found a company that we felt could handle the job.

We decided to go with a custom four-season sunroom addition which would require some tricky roof line work... but the guys at All Iowa Construction seemed up to the task.

It wasn't but a day or two after we gave them the initial payment that they were out preparing the area.

The back deck was more intact than I anticipated... it took two guys almost 2 hours to break it down and clear it out.

Things are looking different already!