Here are most of the basement walls framed. The floor will be framed next. We will come back to the basement and frame the rest of the walls on a rainy day. We have had plenty of those lately.

Pocatello Building

Here is the framing crew hard at work framing the basement walls.
A view from the front of the house right after they dropped the framing materials

This is the second pour in the basement the power trowel that you see is a handy piece of machinery it save a lot of back breaking work.





I guess I am still figuring out how to run a blog. Sorry for the duplicates.

Pocatello construction

Here the floor is graveled and compacted all ready to pour.
We poured the floor in two halves because it is such a big floor 14 yards in the first pour the second pour will be 13 yards.


We hired Maverick well drilling out of Lava to drill the well. He drills all of my wells. He only works part time it seems so I always get him there early in the job to make sure we have water before the move in date. he has never let me down. We will start framing this week so it will really start to look like a house in the next few weeks.

Demolition Pocatello

The funnest thing I have done with my equipment is demolition our task was to take down this little barn so they could build a new one.
It took about half an hour to bring it all the way down.

This is the spot where the barn was and the new one will soon be. I could do jobs like this every day.

Backfill and compact Pocatello

Here is a picture of the plumbing that goes in the floor before we gravel and pour concrete
We have a big vibrating compactor to compact all of the areas where we will pour concrete


A 2000 square foot foundation looks big

Pocatello Rodeo

I have been on the floor of Holt Arena many times for different events this day was unlike any other for two reasons, one, it was the first time in fifteen years that I worked on a Sunday and two, I drove my dump truck on the floor of the dome. It was a fun job.
I helped Johnson Excavation haul the dirt in and out for the rodeo.
We hauled over 150 loads of dirt. There is alot of work that goes into putting on one of these events.

Pocatello Foundation

Here is the foundation after it was poured it took almost 50 yard of concrete

Here is the foundation crew hard at work forming up the footings

Ground Up- Idaho Custom Construction

Here is a picture of the land the Stevens family has chosen to build on. The house will sit right where the track hoe is now.

Here it is before we started moving equipment on to it.

Getting ready to dig.

Upcoming Projects

Keep your eyes wide open for upcoming houses on my blog. I will be posting the entire project from start to finish on a couple of houses I just signed contracts on.