Hard-hat site

Photo by Pete Favat

So the Weston house is finally starting to rise out of the ground – the pre-cast foundation walls are up, and the basement-level plumbing and heating happened last week, courtesy of Richard Trethewey and our new (fantastic) Weston plumbing contractor, Lynne Keating. We’re so glad to be partnering with yet another talented plumbing contractor - and one who also happens to be female – so be sure to look for Lynne’s debut on the show this fall.

Even though the foundation goes up VERY quickly (try 5 hours for our “tall walls”!) – you may be surprised to learn (I sure was) that the guy who engineered the foundation, Adam Campbell, worked with the architect and structural engineer at Bensonwood for nearly 50 man-hours before the installation. (!) Adam is a smart cookie and a good guy; he engineered the foundation on our Carlisle project a few years back as well, and came up to Weston to personally oversee the installation for us this time. We love when we can work with people over and over again on the show, it starts to feel like family.

And speaking of "new" family, our homeowner Pete Favat recently took the time to customize our generic hardhats with TOH Weston logos.

We gave him the file, and he had the logos turned into something thatcan be burnished on in the field, so presto, we have customized Westonhats. I can’t recall a TOH homeowner making us customized gear before.Very cool.

Next up on the webcams: this week you’ll notice Tom Silva onsite, making final preparations for the pouring of the slab, which should happen (weather permitting) on Tuesday, June 10th. Be sure to watch the webcams in Weston that day, as we’ll also be there filming.

Up in New Hampshire, the shop work on our job is largely done, so we’ll be bringing that cam down to Weston before long, to be mounted inside the new house, once it starts to go up.

Depending on the weather, we should begin the “raising” of the house timbers and wall panels starting around June 19th. More on that shortly.