Another one of our delays was that it kept raining! It needs to be dry for 3 days before the guys would come pour the foundation. At this point, we were at the end of October, having started demo in August.
Once framing began, it came up quickly.
We also took down an extended overhang that required there to be a supporting beam pretty close to our driveway.
I went to a brickyard outside the city to select these… I knew we’d be painting them so I just wanted something that would be similar to what is on our 1961 house. These were on clearance.
This was around the end of December. One thing that bothered me was that they were mixing the mortar on my front lawn. Did the grass die? Yes.
We had hail damage from a storm a year earlier, so we combined the entire project to replace the whole roof.
View from above. So cool to be able to see from this perspective. And such a mess!
What to put as our patio ceiling was a bit of a communication gap with the contractor, but they figured it out finally.
And this kept happening. Every time it rained, water was getting into our sunroom. Very annoying! Finally we added 2 gutter downspouts but we’d had to wait until the pool deck was in. 
Did you miss the first garage post? Find it here.
Next time: finishing details and how it looks today.
