Category: Danforth Construction

Around 2:45pm Wednesday 11/13, I received a phone call. When I glanced at caller ID, I knew that I was in for an interesting phone call. Caller ID said “Alton Public Works Department”. I gave the public works my cell number and told them to call me any time during the construction process to speed … Continue reading “Truss me, this is crazy! – 11/13/2024”

We’ve had some significant rain in the area recently. There is no roof on the house, so the water comes in and just sits on the sub floor. Theoretically this is acceptable per some reading I’ve done online about this.We’ll want to test the sub floor in several places before accepting this work after the … Continue reading “Checking In – 11/11/2024”

We’ve been waiting anxiously for the framing to ramp back up after finding our sub floor completed. Today I went out to work on the property and found that most of the first floor had been framed! The garage area in the foreground has not been framed, but is ready for concrete along with the … Continue reading “A First Floor – 10/14/2024”

About a week ago, we received an email you can see below. Hogan and Danelle, We finally got the information needed for the snow load on the house, a load bearing of over 12K lbs per post.  This is going to require us to increase the size of the concrete under the support posts. We … Continue reading “Cutting Concrete – 10/7/2024”

Danelle went up to Danforth to check it out after a recent rain. There is standing water in the basement and the cracks show up more clearly when wet. We were worried about the sub floor being wet. After some Internet research, it sounds like its a normal concern for customers building houses. We don’t … Continue reading “After Rain – 10/3/2024”

Danelle has been asking the construction company to come out and service the silt fence for a while now. It just wasn’t important to them and they continued to ignore us. Today, Danelle happened to be up in Alton when it was raining and drove by the property. There, she came across water in the … Continue reading “Clogged Drain – 9/23/2024”

We left the last update with some partial framing in the basement. Those walls were the load bearing walls. We needed those, to get the joists and sub floor laid. When we came back today, we found just that! One of the things we really liked and it was just by accident, was having our … Continue reading “An Expected But Welcome Update, We’re [sub]floored = 9/7/2024”

We had a functioning construction fence that kept our dirt out of the street. Over time, it has just been ruined/used by the dirt piling against it. Its now flowing over blocking the drain in the street. We make occasional fixes, but really want the construction company to come fix the fence.There is actually a … Continue reading “Framing – 8/28/2024”