Electrician is done

The electrician got all the pre-wiring done this week. They started to paper the house today (4 days after they where supposed to start) and got the bottom 8 feet all round the house completed. The bobcat operator was in and leveled off most of the yard and prepped the area ready for the back patio, walkway at the side of the house, and driveway. We need about 2 more loads of fill to finish off the back yard. The framers came in this morning and corrected a couple of things that the engineered required to pass the roof trusses. All in all it was a productive week. The insulation is slated for Wednesday and then hopefully the drywaller's can come in on 9th.

Things are moving along

This week was productive. The plumber is all finished and it all passed inspection. The insulation is in behind the bathtubs and the fireplace. The roof is completed and the gutters are in. All the interior doors are ordered. The pocket doors have been installed. The exterior doors are all in and the garage is boarded up on one side. We are just waiting for the exterior paper and rain screening on Monday and for them to take away the extra OSB then we will board up the other side of the garage and start drying the place out. The built in vacuum is 1/2 installed and will be completed on Monday. The electrician is starting on Monday, but we have already gone thru the house and marked out all the switches lighting, cable boxes, phone , and Internet stuff. Our friend Brian came over and has measured and laid out both sets of kitchen cabinets and all the bathroom cabinets. I am meeting the bobcat operator today to get a quote.

Never Ending Changes

This morning when I arrived and the framer and plumber where conferring on the fireplace we had purchased - apparently very large - we decided that the best thing to do was move the picture window over a bit towards the patio doors in order to fit the fireplace in. The framer also enlarged the pantry so the fridge would fit in better. Tomorrow I am meeting with the door specialist to order all the interior doors and on Wednesday meet with the electrician to go over where we want all the lighting, switches etc. I also ordered the garage door today. When I arrived back this afternoon all the bathtubs and the fireplace had arrived and had been put into place.

All clean

Front Door with the den beside and upstairs is the suite bedroom and Richard's room.

The side of the garage and the suite entrance.

The back of the house. The upstairs windows at the back are bedrooms and downstairs windows at the back are the master bedroom (on the back right) the living room, patio door, and kitchen window. The side lower window is the ensuite and the upstairs windows are Kayla's bedroom at the back and the suite kitchen window near the front.

A picture from the back corner of the lot. The piles of dirt should hopefully be all spread out this week.

Today we finished cleaning the house and all around the outside. We also had our friend stop by and do the kitchen layout. Chad also came by and went all through the house to see what framing things still needed to be done.

A Day of Cleaning

Well after 3 truck loads of scrap lumber and 1 truck load of garbage hauled away we called it a day. We will go back tomorrow to finish off clearing everything up. This week we will see the plumber finish up, the electrician start the pre-wire, the gutters in and hopefully the siding will start going up (after the rain screening).

Framing Complete!!

The framing is complete. The roofers are 1/2 done and will finish up on Monday. The plumber arrived today and cut out all the holes for the pipes and will start pipes on Monday. I did the walk through for the vacuum installation today and picked out the gutter colour.

Roof, Windows, and Doors

The roof is complete and the roofers will be starting on Friday to put the shingles in place. The windows started going in today and hopefully the doors will be delivered tomorrow and we can lock the place up!!! The framers should wrap things up this week

Trussess!!!

Well all the inside walls are complete, the outside is all sheathed in except for the back wall and the trusses arrived this morning. The framers got most of the trusses up today and it should take about 4 days to cover it all in OSB. The roofer will be there next week followed by the plumber and the electrician and the rain screen and siding should be starting in a couple weeks.

Interior Walls and Closets...

Well after it snowing again last night we headed to the house to remove more snow. I don`t know it will ever dry out as there is so much water in every room. We cleared out the huge pile of snow from the bottom of the stairs so hopefully the framers will add the 2nd set of stairs tomorrow. Almost all the upstairs walls and clsets are framed. I think all that is left is framing the upstairs powder room and 2 bedrooms and closets. Then hopefully we will get trusses on Monday and it will be all covered by Friday so the roofers can start.