Ryan has been working hard on the front porch (with help from his dad!). The framing is finished up, the roof is zipped (zip system including tape). The soffet returns have to be framed out still – probably this weekend. We’ve also picked out our decking material (Trex) and color (color was a tough one …
Now that the master bedroom floor is done and it’s just painting left the focus switched to the front porch. We are adding a front porch to protect the door and match the dormers. The first step was digging some 4′ deep holes for footings and filling those. Mark and Ryan spent a few …
This post is long over due but we moved in as planned and we’ve been a bit busy since then! We had a few weekends off between a wedding and then camping but a little house work progress has also been made. First – the floors were finished, the painting was finished, the electrical was …
Progress continues quickly as we finished up all the prep work for insulation and they came out last Wednesday to start the job (they are finishing up today with a few small touch ups and cleanup). We are seeing a huge improvement in heat retention even with the heat turned off this weekend (we turned …
We’ve made a lot of progress in the last month. It’s not easy to take pictures because it’s mostly demolition and wiring but the end goal is to get both the upstairs and downstairs of the main house (not the addition which is the livingroom/garage area) insulated. Originally we were going to do just …
This past weekend we had some great weather (what month is this again?!!). Ryan and his dad got the new chimney liner installed and finished the top of the chimney! Next up was installing the insert itself which took basically all day Sunday! It was quite the project. Other than that project we did get …
This weekend Ryan and his cousin got the new heat pump installed on the outside of the house. Ryan’s cousin is making great progress on the duct work in the attic as well and once we get the coolant lines run to the two units (attic and basement) we’ll get some heat going in the …
First off – Ryan did an amazing job closing up the second dormer quickly. On the following Saturday he finished the roof on it (Nov 14) while I was out of town. The windows arrived last friday and that night Ryan got the first one put in already! He put the second one in on …
We got hit with rain this week – especially on Wednesday which was the day Ryan and his dad hoped to finish up the dormer. THey worked in the rain but they couldn’t finish the roof shingles in the rain so they just finished up the soffit (closed it in) and Ryan got the window …
It’s not really a surprise that dormer number 2 is going a bit faster than the first – lessons learned and all that! Ryan and his dad worked 1/2 of Saturday and all day Sunday this weekend on the dormer. Saturday morning Ryan went and picked up the wood we had milled into flooring – …