Check our our new NestCam livestream to catch the progress each day and check out the scenery, sunrises and sunsets. The construction at this point is of the steel foundation. It’s a bit of a slow go at this point, but will be accelerating starting in October 2020! I was up at the building site…
We finally got our crane onsite today! This means we will now see, over the next five weeks, the house come out of the ground. The crew anticipates they will start on Thursday Sept 10th. I was told that initially it will be slow going, getting everything right with the base plates and initial beams.…
The work on fabricating the columns (25 of them!), base plates, and beams has (finally) begun. We are working with an amazing fabricator, Martin Enterprises in Bailey, Colorado. They have 50+ years of experience in a wide variety of metal fabrication projects. They sent over a few pictures of the column and base plates that…
Click here to book now! This is what we are building – a luxury treehouse in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado – only 1 hour drive from Denver. Enjoy a video walkthrough of the property – 100% architecturally correct and to scale. The outside environment and the furnishings are a good representation, but not exact.…
Our contractor is finally ready to roll and we ordered the steel for the foundation last week. The fabricator will be building the foundation frames at their shop, then bringing them to the site to weld them together. Should be an interesting few weeks to see the steel finally going up! Also, we hired someone…
So, a quick update… Getting the steel fabricated and installed has been a challenge. The structural engineer that did the drawings did a half-ass job and he didn’t include critical measurements on the spacing of the footers, so the contractor had to do them. That took a lot more time and effort than was necessary…
The 25 caissons are finally drilled, set with rebar and ready for concrete (coming tomorrow- more pics after they pour). This is what it takes to hold a 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 1600 square foot luxury treehouse 40 feet in the air. The picture below shows how the contractors had to dig down to bedrock,…
See the little tubes at the lower left of the picture above? Those are the where they will be putting the rebar and concrete that be the foundational support for the metal beams that will hold up the house. The biggest effort with this was the surveying – to make sure all these were put…
All luxury treehouses need utilities. Water, electric, sewer and gas….and eventually high-speed internet. This post is about some great progress that happened today on the first three items in the foregoing list. In the last post, I mentioned that the well finally hit water at 1,406 feet. Just to put that into perspective, that’s nearly…
So, we knew when we bought the land that we would have to drill a well. We also knew that drilling a well was not something that was 100% guaranteed to be successful. When we talked to the drilling company, they talked about “witching” a well and that it was the best way to find…