Set Day!

Today is set day! My husband and I arrived at the site a 7 AM and were the first ones there - we were very excited to get the day going!

The set crew arrived a little after 7, and began by taking the plastic off the sides, ends, and roof of the halves.  They also were taking out all the ship loose parts that they would need for the exterior of the home (this is also to make the home that much lighter for the crane to lift).  The crane was supposed to be at the site around 8 am......we were pushing 9am when the crane company finally called to state they could not find the site.  My husband went in search of them and escorted them back to our site.  In the mean time, my contractor was on site to move the interior basement stairwell wall over a few inches, it was only going to support on half of the home, so he moved it 2 3/8" to fix the error.

We had a lot of people that wanted to see the set! Since it is so close to home, many people who work at Commodore came to see the set in progress.  We also had a guy doing video of the set - to create a time-lapse video of the set, I am excited to see the footage he got of the whole process.  Family members, neighbors, you name it, they were probably on site at some point throughout the day!  It is a neat process and I am glad we got to share it with so many people!

It took the crane awhile to get set up, but once they did we were in business!

 The crane arrives!

 The crane is prepping with the straps to lift the home.

 Setting the first box!

 First box is on foundation!

 Raising the roof on the first box!

 Picking up the second box!

 Second box is set.

 Raising the second roof!

 My daughter excited about the whole process - look at the materials being lifted up by the crane!

 Setting the endwall

 Setting the opposite end wall - this end gets a window!

 Installing the boxes to close up the roof.

 Weather proofing the home - finishing the shingles!

This is what the house looked like when we left Friday evening. (we put in a 12 hour day!)

After the house was set, and everyone was gone, we went to the home improvement store, and bought all our paint colors for the house, and a few odds and ends that we were going to need in order to get this project moving!