Construction Progress- The Charles at 2431 Ontario Rd

We haven't posted many pictures of our condo project at 2431 Ontario Road because the work so far has mostly been digging and pouring concrete, which are not very exciting.  However, the foundation is complete and now the real construction can really begin.  This morning, the masons were completing the walls around the rear areaway, and our framers started framing the walls for the first floor.  It's really incredible how big these units will be- almost 1200 SF with 10 Ft ceilings.  Awesome.

Here the carpenters are tilting up the wall for the north side of the first floor.  In an ideal world, you would frame the inside first and then put up the brick or block on the outside.  However, when you build in the city, you can't do this without working from the neighbors' yard, which is often impossible.    In order to get around this, we build the brick or block first, and then come back and frame the inside walls.

It's been time consuming, but the rear patio for the ground level unit is nearly complete.