Weather.....give us a break

Well we should have had the roof on by now but..... with all this crazy weather Victoria has been getting we are about 2 weeks behind. We have had to shovel off the 2ND floor twice and I did not know but we have actually installed a swimming pool on the main floor:) Well wishful thinking but it is filled with a few inches of water right now. The framers did attempt to get the remaining upstairs walls mostly completed today but had to quit early because of high winds, snow, sleet, freezing rain, and rain! Hopefully tomorrow and New Years Eve will be more productive. Trusses are tentatively booked for Wednesday (your prayers would be welcome)

Stairs

I was up on the 2nd floor this afternoon. They needed to know what I wanted done with the "extra space" they found. Where the stairs come up there was a bit extra room so we added it to a closet. Like there was any question doesn't every girl want a bigger closet? The framers have been great they even worked worked yesterday in the -13 (with wind chill). They have now sheathed most of the downstairs walls, put in both sets of stairs and have only 3 walls left upstairs to frame and sheath. Trusses should be going up on Thursday or Friday. Roof next week and shingles after Christmas.

Hopefully power on Monday

Well all this snow is great but we will have to shovel our floor on Monday. We now have all the downstairs framed, floor joists all in, most of the plywood down on the floor, and the back upstairs wall framed and sheathed. They accomplished a lot last week. The only real hick-up was the power. We paid the neighbour to use his, but he is ready to move in so disconnected us. Our power was supposed to be hooked up by hydro on Friday, but when I stopped by in the morning the framers where running of a generator. Hopefully Monday we will be running on our own power and all the framers won't be kept away by the snow. Oh and trusses should be here on Thursday we will have a roof by Christmas.

looking at den and downstairs powder room

looking at master bedroom and ensuite

a look from the road

new 9 foot walls

Well I summoned up enough courage to face the music and as with all things it is never as bad as you imagine it. The guys are all still talking to me. We have to move a door around upstairs a bit as with adding 1 foot of wall height you need to add 2 steps to the stairs. Oh and we wasted a box of nails. All in all it has all worked out.

We had walls but...

We did have walls yesterday, but today I am afraid to go look. Kurk stopped by the lot yesterday and called me to say "why are the walls only 8 feet!!!!". Some how (lack of knowledge) I/We had missed the fact that the plans said 8 feet walls and we wanted 9 footers. So Kurk took the plunge and phoned the framer this morning asked them to take what they had done down and start over again. So you can see why I don't want to show may face around the lot. I will take some pics this weekend and on Monday I am ordering all the windows. In a couple weeks we should have a house instead of just a lot.

Walls......

We have walls. Well at least frames of the walls. The framers got 5/6 walls framed today. It was neat I got to see how big my bedroom window is going to be as well as the kitchen and den windows. It is slowly taking shape, but everyday there is always something that is done not quite right or questions that are asked that I don't know the answer to. Oh well its just house with walls and a roof its what happens inside that makes it a home, at least that is what I need to keep telling myself.

Waiting......

Well we are waiting for the framer to start work. It was supposed to be Monday, then Tuesday now it is supposed to be Thursday. They should at least be putting up the wall for the electrical panel tomorrow and then the electrician will put the panel in tomorrow afternoon so that bright and early Thursday morning 5 guys SHOULD be framing our new home.