Construction zone

We've been living in a construction zone all week.  But we can see the light - literally - at the end of the construction tunnel.  After 12 years in this house we finally decided to add more egress windows in the basement.

 

 

The family room has always felt like a dungeon.  It runs the length of the house and had one tiny little basement window high up on the wall.  And there was landscaping in front of it besides.  So this is the window that excites us the most. We put in a double egress window here and it has already changed the whole feel of the room. Let there be light!!!

 

They'll come back and do the finish work inside and outside next week.  You can see why it took 5 days to get the windows set in, because we have brick exterior.  Which meant there was a LOT of prep work.  One young man spent his week digging the big hole for this double window and a smaller hole for the single bedroom window. The main guy removed brick and chiseled his way through the brick and the concrete and the rebar. 

 

 

 

 

The contractor just shook his head and said our house was certainly built right.  It took most of their time this week to just get the openings made.  At least for the smaller window in the bedroom they didn't have to remove lots of brick.  The masonry guy will hopefully get everything back to normal next week too.