Unloaded and Ready to Go!

It is now officially looking like a worksite. Met the trucks and everybody this morning at about 7AM. Took about 3 hours to unload everything. I just stood back and watched for the most part. The only thing I helped with was the windows and doors. Those required some careful handling. I also met one of my neighbors. An older black gentleman that doesn't look a day over 50, but told me he's 75 and widowed. He asked that I make sure to invite him to all my wild and crazy parties. :)

The truck itself had what they call a "boom", so it could do some of the unloading. It could extend about 50 or so feet. The drivers (and the company that made the house) are from Quebec... 15 hour drive to Ann Arbor. One of them spoke english with a heavy french accent (pictured) and the other spoke no english, although he understood english. They were cool.

The framer brought what he called a Sky-Trak and also helped unload the truck and place things around the site.

Tomorrow, they will begin work. They are going to take the extra set of plans and instructions that the driver gave them and go over them today so they can attack full force tomorrow. The framer actually said he could probably have the whole first floor done by end of day tomorrow with the windows in as well. So we'll see what progress is made by end of day tomorrow. On Friday, the foundation folks will be back to put down the concrete for the garage and the porch.