With the framing crew wrapping up another job and now able to focus all hands on my site we experienced the rare holy trinity of construction, good weather, skilled crew, and lots of materials. That means big progress and a roof to go on next week. My key tip for the aspiring builder is to keep up the momentum by finishing the basement plumbing and having that slab poured. This way by the time the framers run out of work above they can get the frost walls and partitions done before the next crews show up and it makes the job run so much smoother. Getting the slab done isn’t that easy because it takes two inspections and the hydronic roughin work adds a day in the middle. So a fair bit of prep work and supplies to deliver (gravel, rebar, styfroam, poly, pex, design work, permits). Costly slab work and tall basement concrete walls are yet another of the many reasons Canadian building costs a lot more than what you see on TV from American based renovation reality shows. I’ve got a schedule put together to really move this building along toward the drywall phase. It is just way easier to start a build like this in the spring. I need to somehow have all my builds start in April and none of them start in the fall.