Wow! Alot has happened in the last few days.. so I'm going to break it into two posts; one for Tuesday and Wednesday (when not as much visibly was happening), and today.
On Tuesday the framing crews were working on the wall framing... by the end of the day they had it mostly complete.
You can see above that most of the walls that are framed up now also have the plywood sheathing on them as well... it's a small step closer to having the house all enclosed.
...but... the biggest addition of the day was the stairway to get us upstairs! The girls have been itching to walk in their new rooms since the floor framing went up....
The girls jumped at the chance to finally see out their windows....
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| Lyndsey with her window looking into the woods... |
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| Rachel with her window looking out in front of the house... |
Here's a couple more photos from the second floor....
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| From the "overlook" looking down into the living room |
Above you can see Robin's "Wall of Windows" on the left and one of the small transom windows in the wall on the right that'll be above the built-in cabinets and on either side of the fireplace.
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| From the other "overlook" down into the main entry foyer |
The photo above has two large openings; the bottom one is for the entry doorway and the top one is for the large window that will go above it.
Wednesday brings along two new developments.... the roof trusses have arrived on-site in preparation for installation on Thursday, and the house is seeing the beginnings of the vapor barrier wrapping on the exterior of the plywood sheathing.
First, the wrapping.. You can see it's the light blue paper wrapped about the right side of the house. It's there to kind of regulate the transmission of air and moisture within the wall structure.
The view from the back of the house with wrapping...
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| From inside the patio doors... one of the workers has a sense of humor! |
The trusses, stacked up and awaiting the arrival of the crane. Joe (Dennis' construction manager on-site) told me on Wednesday that the trusses would have been installed on Wednesday except that they couldn't get the crane that day.
The trusses are scheduled to be installed on Thursday. The house will look tons different when that happens!
Also, I'd spoken with the plumbing sub a couple days ago and he'd said he was down in the basement (and the garage) installed the underfloor plumbing. Things like the piping for a future bathroom, the part of the septic system that is inside the house, and floor drains.
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| floor drain and water heater/softener hookups |
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| the "sewage ejector" |
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| plumbing rough-ins for the future bathroom |
More to come in the next post... Thursday will be a big day!
Paul
