Lockup!

Lockup stage is here...finally. Doors, windows are all in place, so the house can be locked up at night. Bogdan was here all last week (and again this morning) to install the remaining windows and doors.

Now we wait for the plumber to finish his thing, and the electrical do be done. We've done the electrical design (which wasn't as easy as you'd think). We walked through yesterday and figured out what lighting we want and where to put it. We are going with flush mounted potlights almost everywhere. More expensive now, but we don't have to buy lamps and other fixtures, plus potlights are clean and simple looking...I likie!
Here are a couple pics of the front of the house

the rear patio door being installed





and the large and exciting garage



Garage door should come this week too.

yay.

and then there was a deck

Bogdan the framer is back for the week to install windows/doors and finish the framing. The front porch is all done, the rear (small) deck is pretty much done. The place is coming along so so well....amazing actually.
The front porch posts are beautiful fir (I believe)...really nice looking wood.

this'll be a big week, so tune in for more updates (mainly, the windows...that'll be huge!)

Concrete jungle

Early morning today at 581 with a cement truck and 5 guys to help pour it.

They were there for 12 hours, pouring, smoothing, pouring and smoothing some more.



doing their thing. Looks pretty awesome. The garage floor is done, as is the basement, main and upper floor as well as the stairs to the basement entrance.

 

Meanwhile, Yuval wants bathtubs picked asap, so Jen and I wandered down to 'his' store to pick them out...tubs are pretty easy as there are really only a few styles, and it's either tacky and ugly, or simple...we went with simple. Jen was asking all sorts of "Jen" questions, so finally she hopped into the tubs, in the back parking lot of the plumbing shop...what a nutbar!
Have a gander at the pics...

iPhone shmiphone!

It's friday night and the cement comes on Monday...to be poured into the garage floor, and all 3 floors of the house. The radiant heat is in place (see the pics...neato!)
 and the cement will be poured on top of the tubes to create sweet warmthiness floors (should I spellcheck warmthiness?).

All the plastic piping is down, so I'm thinking the majority of the plumbing is now done. It'll sure be a different place by next Friday...with floors and windows/doors to be installed.

Just had monster burgers and ridiculous beans (thanks Donna!!!!) mixed with beer...the 3 B's!

Graeme, Rachel and Julius were visiting...great to see G as always.

Cash is asleep, Maddie (and Donna) are asleep and Jen is fad....i....n........g.

ganight!

we have roof.

drove by today and the roof is on (both the house and the garage). Also, the concrete looks like it'll be poured in the garage and basement tomorrow as it's all insulated and the rebar is laid down. It'll be nice to have the garage floor done so we can start storing stuff in there (and not in the 250$/Month storage container).
The drainage plumbing is also done and was inspected this week...didn't pass everything, which apparently normal, and any tweaks have been made.

581 by November? We'll see...

the last picture is where the basketball

hoop will go. 

raise the roof (or shingle it)

snappy little gizmo this iphone I have...I can drive by the house, snap a picture and click a button and voila! The picture is sent directly to my blog.
We got back from camping tonight, and it was a miserable wet day, but still quite fun. The girl-kid ran around all day chasing and being chased (one kid was the Mom, the other kid was the Dad and Maddie was "gramma").
The roof is on the house and garage...so now, we need windows and doors!

ok...not house related, but it's Maddie dancing!!

a little video my Dad shot when he and my Mom were out visiting. Jamestown Ferry....Maddie's favorite song (this week at least)