Windows, porch and walls

Guy and I stopped at the house tonight to have a look around and try to get a head start on some of the electrical decisions that we’re bound to be faced with tomorrow. We found that the builders put the new deck on the East side of the house by the kitchen. [...]

Fun stuff

Tomorrow we meet with the electrician, plumber and builder to discuss some details, I’m assuming to include location of all electrical outlets, switches and fixtures, HVAC vent locations and miscellaneous plumbing info and to discuss the design of the stone and siding on the exterior of the house. Do I need to mention that [...]

Then there was one…

Poor Guy, he ended up working at the house by himself yesterday trying to get more of the roofing done so the builders could continue putting windows in and getting siding on. He was supposed to just go up in the morning to talk to them a bit, but soon realized that it would [...]

Bathroom cabinets

In all of my spare time (ha!) I’ve been giving some thought to the master bathroom. I’m fairly certain that a meeting with the cabinet guy is on the horizon and since we want him to do the cabinets in the master bath in addition to the kitchen, I figured I’d better get my [...]

Footers and roofing and cold and rain

Sorry for the delay in posting. Sometimes writing about work has to take a back seat to actually doing the work.
Guy and I spent a very rainy, cold and dreary Saturday pouring the footers for the deck posts. Yes, this is something the builder should have been doing but we knew they weren’t [...]

You can do it!

Audio Clip
Ok, so every time I utter the phrase “you can do it”, I think of this movie (The Waterboy) so I just had to include the audio clip.
As is the case many times in life, it seems there’s been a disconnect between the sales team at H&H (Uri) and the poor slobs (Levi and [...]

A good use for bad concrete ….

I stopped at the house today to discuss the locations of our skylights with the framers.  As Sue mentioned in her post today, things are moving right along.  It’s approaching the “dried in” stage.  Soon, we’ll be working on mechanicals.  The only obstacle we have to overcome first is the flat roof areas.  The builder [...]

Shingles

Today’s project was apparently putting the shingles on the roof.

Guy was with them this morning discussing a few things and watched part of the installation. He said they appear to be doing a good job, slow but quality. They only got the East upper level, half the South and a quarter of the [...]

Windows, garage and roof

My first visit to the house this week was fun. Pulling into the driveway I saw the roof appear from through the trees, a garage and windows!

They framed in the garage…

Installed the windows in the kitchen and living room…

And got the roof on the west wing of the house. We were [...]

Rain

It absolutely poured here overnight and into this morning, and the radar shows no relief in sight. I wonder what the framers got done on the house yesterday? It sure would be nice if they got the sheeting and felt on the roof to keep all this rain out of our house! [...]