Schlatter Family Site
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Building our
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Use these links to follow the construction on our new house.
| Return to new house first page ( this page ) |
| Our lot on the Virginia Northern Neck |
| Front elevation and floor plan. |
| Specifications and materials |
| Day 1: Culvert and clearing |
| Update at end of week 1; 11-15 February 2008. |
| Digging and preparing footers; 20-21 Feb |
| Setting forms for concrete foundation walls, 23-24 Feb |
| Building materials on the site, 27 Feb |
| Foundation complete, 26-27 Feb |
| Sub floor under construction, 28 Feb |
| Walls going up, 29 Feb |
| Preparing to pour garage floor and shed slab floor |
| Pouring garage floor, framing garage and shed |
| Interior framing |
| Installing the roof trusses |
| Wiring and plumbing rough-in |
| Miscellaneous photos, 23 March 2008 |
| Exterior photos, 24 March 2008 |
| Photos with doors installed, 27 March 2008 |
| Drywall (sheetrock) started, 7-10 April |
| Back porch floor started, 9-10 April |
| Hole and trenches for septic tank in, 10 April |
| Drywall ready to sand |
| Siding going on |
| Front and back porches |
| Septic tank, propane tank installed |
| 18 April: Porch columns, siding complete |
| Solar Tube skylights |
| Kitchen cabinets installed!! |
| Ceramic tile installation |
| First layer of trim |
| Fireplace and chimney |
| More to come. |
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In January 2005, we moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast where we started building a new house. On 29 August 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed our home and the rest of the Gulf Coast. We started chronicling the construction of our house on the Gulf Coast and stopped when the house was destroyed by Katrina. To see what we did before Katrina, go to this link.
After Katrina, we stayed with relatives in Louisiana for several weeks then returned to East Tennessee, near Joe's parents ( mid-Oct 2005 ). After two years -- Oct 2005 to Nov 2007 -- during which time Joe's father and mother died, our son was married, and our daughter finished law school -- we settled on the Virginia Northern Neck.
We purchased a lot between the towns of Heathsville and Burgess, in Northumberland Country, Virginia, on the Potomac River. Our lot looks across the Potomac to Point Lookout, Maryland, where the Potomac joins the Chesapeake Bay.
Geographic coordinates are: 37 deg 57.709 min N, 076 deg 24.441 min W
This section of our family website will chronicle the building of our new house. We trust this house will be completed and we won't have to move again.
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