Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Windows, Siding and More!!






We are dodging the rain the best we can and making some progress. The rest of the windows are finally installed and the Hardie siding is looking good, a little dirty from sitting in the mud-but good none the less. Picture 2 shows my little custom pocket door that goes from the pantry to the closet accessible from the outside for quick trash removal, I got strange looks from framers and door guy for this one. Picture 3 shows entry to the "Cat Zone"- i got a lot of grief from the framers for this. The cats can enter from the laundry room to this perch- with a window and later will come the bird feeder outside- for entertainment purposes.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Doors Open..Doors Close..



Doors arrive!!!!! Our exterior doors and the pocket door frames have arrived. The exterior doors have temporary door panels, so the "real doors" will arrive later so they don't get harmed during the making of this house- only these frames will remain and they are honkin' to fit our 2x8 exterior walls on the front volume. This was a new one for the door guys- that always seems to happen with my projects. Tommorow we should ramp back up and get the doors, rest of the windows and siding installed!!! Good times.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

waiting paiently.. again

After a flurry of activity, we are at a standstill waiting for the exterior doors to arrive on Thursday. They should then finish putting up the Hardie and windows and pocket doors. When the door guy came to measure, he asked if this was going to be an office. Ahh the comments have started. The guy building a new bungalow down the street was amazed at how much he liked the house, especially when I showed him inside, he commented- "It (the house) is very confident says I'm different and I don't care if you like me"- I guess I will take that as a compliment. Hopefully more progress photos on Thursday.

Friday, May 18, 2007

Windows, windows, everywhere!!!





We are super excited the windows arrived them and they are ginormously wonderful. Siding to go up tomorrow and exterior doors arrive Monday, and then we can lock up, yipeee.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Roof Time







Roofing started today and boy is it stinky, and thus I am stinky. First layers of modified bitumen going up and 3-1/2" of rigid insulation. I will be happy when this is over, I now have a massive headache and my hair smells bad.

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Rain Don't Stop Me Now




After all the rain last night we fared pretty well. It actually cleaned up a lot of the sawdust mess on the slab from the past couple of days. I was trying to get a good photo of the courtyard, it is so much more impressive in person- I can't seem to get far enough back for a good view. This will have to do for now. Windows are delayed and won't be here until next Wednesday. They are going to start building my little shed/construction office in the backyard tomorrow.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Until the Rains Came





Well- we were moving right along until the rains came. If it does not rain tomorrow we should have windows installed by Saturday!!!! that would be huge. However, no progress for today or yesterday. Here are some pictures from Saturday and Baxter's weekend gig as "roadie".