The steel has arrived!!!

After we let SteelMaster Buildings know that we were ready for our Quonset it was quickly manufactured and sent out, maybe within a week or slightly over. Melvin, the Canadian truck driver, delivered our Quonset on 1/25/15 and my husband and his brother unloaded it by hand taking about 1.5h. Thank God it was 60 degrees out at 9000' elevation. We've had a really warm streak flow through the area.
 I believe we had 12,500 lbs of steel! From there we were able to load it into a u haul and take it to our land and it is now being stored in the shipping container. There are 120 pieces of the 2'x10' and 20 of the smaller ones. 2 skylights, trim, base connector, and all the pieces to put the bad boy together.
I have one complaint... on one of the trim pieces for the edge at the top is a SteelMaster Building sign that is bolted and riveted to the piece (not removable without damaging the piece). I was not aware that our house was going to be an advertisement from them. Ridiculously tacky! So, if you're buying a Quonset from them you may want to ask if that could not be part of your house, just a thought. My plan is to spray paint it and change it to either our last name or whatever we decide to name the house.
Next step is figuring out the site plan and letting our architect know we are good to go. Once we give the OK to the architect we should have plans in a couple days to get official bids from the contractors.
Pictures below...

Met with our architect today!

I find it so exciting to look at our house on paper with all the details. The dream is slowly coming together, and now we're going to have to start kicking it in to higher gear. The plan is to have our certificate of occupancy or temporary certificate of occupancy no later than August 1, 2015. Exciting to think the kiddo will have her 3rd birthday at our forever home.
We've got our lighting plan down and are now working on the plan for the ventilation. It's going to be a pretty tight house so we are talking about installing a HRV unit in the utility room like this one: Aldes H150-TRG Heat Recovery Ventilator - 150 CFM
The other thing to figure out is the skylights, and other minor details such as what colour to stain the concrete, materials to use for finishing the walls, and whatnot. Thankfully it's all starting to come together.

Finishing the house second hand style

Now that we've got the floor plan the search for second hand materials has begun. So far we've acquired: 2 sinks including faucets for the upstairs bathroom ($20 for both) - plan to build the vanity ourselves, a pedestal sink for the powder room for $40, an old wagon wheel with the plan to turn it into lighting, and an old pulley for some other lighting. I'm working on putting a list together of other needed items that we can find on Craigslist, Restore, or any of the builder's seconds type stores. I'm collecting my ideas on Pinterest, check it out Quonset House Pinterest Board

Here are some pics of the goodies we've picked up so far. Austin even built a storage rack for the sinks.