We are steadily moving along. Siding and roof will be completed by lunch Monday, or so I'm told. Plumbing, electrical and HVAC rough-ins should be finished by Tuesday and ready for inspection Wednesday. About 90% of the interior walls have been framed so after the rough-in inspection we'll be ready for insulation, then the insulation inspection and then we can begin sheetrock. I think we'll be able to go ahead and put the porch now but it is still a game time decision. All in all we are pleased with the progress but I'm thinking the end of the year deadline may be a week or two out of reach.
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| The mud room roof and siding are complete as of yesterday. |
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| The giant pile of wood, bricks, plaster, etc. on the left of the picture keeps growing, but I think we have a plan to get rid of it. The contractor is going to bring over a dozer loader type piece of equipment (941 Cat to be exact), move the pile one bucket at a time to the barn lot where we are going to start burning everything in a huge pit. |
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| Here we have the living room and kitchen ceiling. The ceiling joists were initially replaced with 2x8's which the plumber could not drill through to run our sewer line. Therefore, the contractor scabbed 2x10's beside every 2x8. He graciously "donated" the materials as I think he realized that the 2x8's should have been 2x10's in the first place. |
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| This is the dining room. We removed as much of the chimney as possible to still be able to keep the fireplace/mantle in the adjacent guest bedroom. We were also able to have a larger than planned opening into the dining room from hallway which will open the house up even more. |
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| This is the wall between the kitchen and living room. It is built out of 2x6's so we can run the sewer line down through it and into the basement. |
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| The stairs have been reconstructed to the full width of the stairway. Check out the roughed in electrical on the right! |
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| This is the master bath with wire and plumbing roughed in. Its kind of hard to tell whats going on but that's the doorway directly in front. The tub will be in the back right corner, the sink & vanity will be along the right wall, a 5'x4' tile shower in the front left corner and the toilet in its own room in the back left. |
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| This is the furnace of the new split heat pump system in the attic. It is sitting on a platform to allow for maximum attic insulation without compacting. It think all it needs is the exhaust pipe installed out the back of the house. After we finish grading around the back of the house, we'll install the outside unit. |
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| Plumbing supplies. The PEX pipe is pretty neat stuff. |
