New Spec Home 937 Echo in Glenview

We are closing at the end of January.

We have completed the siding and paver work.  We are starting to landscape now.

Now that the front door and the exterior light fixtures have been installed, we can finish wrapping the columns and complete the siding in the front entry way.

The driveway is in and we have started the paver work on the front porch and the driveway border.

We are installing the doors, casing, base and crown moldings.

We have installed all the hardwood flooring and we are ready to start the finish work (installing doors, casing and baseboards)

We are installing 4″ red oak at our spec home in Glenview.

We have passed all the rough inspections and can now start insulating the house.

We have completed all the rough work and are now ready for inspection.

We are using white trim with the Deep Ocean color Hardie board siding to complement our stone color.

Now that the rigid insulation has been installed we can start installing the Hardie board siding.

With the rough framing done, we can now have the HVAC, plumbing and electrical work start.

We have started the stone work on our Spec Home at 937 Echo Lane in Glenview.

We have finished framing the first floor of our spec home at 937 Echo Lane in Glenview.

The basement slab has been poured.  They have put control joints uniformly across the basement floor and then they do the final smoothing concrete smoothing by hand.

We have compacted and leveled gravel at the bottom of the basement.  We have installed a vapor barrier between the gravel and the concrete and then we have put down wire mesh.

We have sprayed the walls with Rub-R-Wall, which has a warranty not to leak for the life of the foundation.  After the Rub-R-Wall product has dried, we installed insulation on the foundation walls.

We have removed the forms and while we let the concrete cure, we will install the steel beams.

The foundation walls are being poured at our new construction spec home in Glenview.

Footings are an important part of foundation construction. They are made of concrete with rebar reinforcement that has been poured into an excavated trench. The purpose of footings is to support the foundation and prevent settling.

We have started excavation of our new construction spec home at 937 Echo Lane in Glenview.

We have demolished the existing home and will begin excavation for our new spec home at 937 Echo Lane in Glenview.

We have the construction fence up and the permits are ready.  Once the water is shut off we can start demolition  next week.

We will be starting construction on a home in the New Trier school district. It is not too late to make some changes during construction.  More information coming in the next few weeks.