How long did each process take (foundation, frame, roof, walls, windows, wiring/plumbing, interior wall work)?
Another factor in our story is that we own a hay ranch. Alfalfa waits for no man, so much of my summer time does involve irrigating, ranch maintenance and harvesting. My summer work schedule is frenetic. Okay. Foundation: Over the course of the summer of 2001, we got the well, septic tank and leach system, the foundation, and stem walls built. I hired two young unskilled workers to help me with this, the gruntiest part of the entire job. Lots of stomach, legs and back muscles required for this (but using excavating equipment is cool). We stopped work in late September. The next spring, my brother Ron came in late April and we installed all the invisible stuff like electrical cable to the service pedestal, pipes to the well, etc, we graded the ground in the house’s interior, insulated under the future concrete slab, did under-slab plumbing and in-slab radiant floor heating and poured the slab by mid-May. Ron and I spent about two or three weeks putting in the sill plates, door and windo
