Siding

Tuesday was a big day for visiting the house. Marlene spent 2 or 3 hours in the morning doing a walk-through with the electrician, specifying in detail the electrical layout. Mid-afternoon, Pete and Len dropped off a waterheater donated by Tim's company (they were disposing of it, despite it only having been used for 8 months on a job site).

They were installing siding and getting ready to lay up the block Trombe walls. In the first picture you can see the front of the house and garage. Now that the windows are in and the siding is on, I am not sure I like the way the two windows look next to each other here. Maybe some creative landscaping will help.

Installing Porch Siding

Back of house and garage are sided.

The lower level of the east end of the house is sided, except fo one piece of trim.

East End

The front (south side) did not have any siding on, although they were getting ready for it.

Front of House at 12:47PM

Three hours later, the windows in lower level in front of the Trombe walls were installed.

Front of House at 13:36PM

This last picture was taken by ace photographer, Pete, as we were driving across the frozen, rutted front yard.

Windows!

If you have not seen this post yet, you will want to scroll down three more posts to 1/25. This is the last of four posts today to get caught up.

It had been two weeks since we had been out to the house. Too busy with other deadlines, sadly. Fortunately, the subcontractors had been busy, as well. Our windows arrived Monday (2/11) from Canada and they started installing them that day. They are all in except the Trombe wall windows. They won't go in until the Trombe walls are built. I'm not sure how they plan to keep the place warm enough to lay up the block with those windows missing, but I'm sure they'll figure something out. None of these pictures show it, but they have started installing the Hardi Plank siding, too.

Master bedroom with windows.

They also completed the rough plumbing and the HVAC ducts. Here you can see a bunch of that in the basement next to the stairs. It sure is easy to tell the hot water pipes (red) from the cold (blue) with the newfangled PEX tubing.

Ducts and Plumbing

The laundry room and Mar's office will have a concrete slab floor. The ducts need to be put in before the floor is poured. I am surprised that they did not insulate these ducts at all.

Laundry Room Ducts

The shower in Bath 1 (guest bath) was installed, as was the drain for the master bath shower. The master bath will be tiled, including the shower, so only a drain is needed, at this point. The control valve for the shower in Bath 1 was not centered very well. I am curious how they will fix this. I bet the interfering stud will get moved.

Bath 1 Shower.

Well, we had even more snow this time than two weeks ago, so I skiied to the back corners to take GPS readings to calibrate my aerial photo map. Marlene and Pete checked out ceramic tile options in the great room, while I did this.

Checking Out Tile in Great Room