Wades Beach: Out of the Ashes

Chrissie is back with another installment of the video series. If you watch this one, she takes you through the house, which is now all framed out. Some of the plumbing is in too. I like that she goes from the first to the second floor. Have a look!

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One of the cool parts of the new house plans is that we now have a second floor. The old house was ranch style. On our last trip, we got to stand upstairs for just the second time, but this trip we were able to walk up a flight of stairs, not a ladder. We will have a small patio on the front, just off the bedroom. Chrissie and our stars, Rob and Tor, check it out in this new video:

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Chrissie has been hard at work editing her video clips (now that she is not working on Avatar any longer, I think), and her skills are great. We have not posted any video since the first one in April, when we were at Demolition Depot. These two were shot at the house in early October and mid November. The October one shows us at the house the day we inspected the foundation being poured, which was an amazing site to behold. Then the other clip was from six weeks ago, when we trekked out in the rain to see the frame up. The progress since then has been dramatic. We have more videos to post this weekend, so keep checking back…

Episode 2, the foundation and a tour of the pod:



Episode 3, the frame is up, but not the roof. We get a look at the upstairs for the first time:

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This is the first video clip I have made about the house construction. And I don't know how many will follow. For our apartment renovation I made six, and that job was about 1/20th the size of this project.

In this clip, we visit Demolition Depot, where Chrissie and I want to get as much salvaged items as we can. This will be both to save money and be "green" by using recycled materials. Most of the stuff you will see in the video came out of East Coast homes and apartment buildings. Maybe you will see some of it in our new beach cottage.

Labels: Construction, Salvage, Video