Saturday, June 20, 2009

The roof goes on...

Everyone is writing about how we've already had twice the average rainfall in June (halfway through the month), so the progress is impressive.  I still don't understand why the pictures don't load in the order I want them, but here it is...

The current view of what will be the front entrance/walkway.  You can see that the exterior walls are all framed.

Todd laying down subfloor in Miles' room.


A view of the living space.  See how the rafters on the right get steeper as the roof length gets shorter?  It looks pretty cool.


A view of the (mostly) sheathed roof.  We're hoping to have the roofers come and finish up by the end of next week.


This was meant to be the first picture--Todd and John set all the beams on the front of the house last weekend while I was away.  Every one is a different length and had to be cut in place.

One last thing--we just got our electric bill for last month.  Granted, we're living in much fewer square feet, but we are using all of our regular appliances (just not our stove and that's gas), and our kWh usage was less than half of the same month last year.  I think it's the on demand water heater.  So they DO pay for themselves (eventually). Good to know.

Monday, June 8, 2009

After the weekend

We had a TINY little bit of no rain (it's 60% likely to be stormy all week), but Todd made huge progress during the sunshine.  The walls of the front room all came down, he added the floor to the diagonal addition in the front and in the master bathroom, moved the downstairs toilet and laid out the front exterior wall.  He's gone to order skylights and beams for the front roof now.



Here's the view from below:

This is putting down the bathroom floor (it's' pretty much done now, also, that wall dividing the two bathrooms is gone and the loo has been moved to where it will remain in the master bathroom).  The pic for this is on top--I can't get it to move--sorry!


View from my parking spot.  All the front exterior walls are laid out and decisions about window size have been made.  Found a snake (and lots of bees) while removing the old eaves. Look at the last post in May to see where it was before the floor went down.

View of  the front half of the house before the new (higher) roof.