Thursday, July 26, 2007

Windows!

These photos are from yesterday. Somebody who will remain unnamed forgot to post them up here and went to bed early.








We were informed that the rest of the windows would go in today, and there are two more windows in as of this evening. Maybe we'll just be wrapping the rest in plastic wrap?

I call a race! Which will be finished first? The house or the chicken coop? Taking bets until Friday evening.

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Weekend roundup

The furnace is officially in, and the only difference from the picture is it has a door on the front, a bottom stand, and a top cap. Also the return air ducts are cut out and part of the duct work is in. It should be finished this week - we hope.

The roof will have the last shingles on the back put on tomorrow, and then it will be finished. This is the first "finished" thing on the house and is very exciting.

The windows should be here and installed this week. The doors are ordered. The bathtubs and shower fixtures will be ordered this week. When the doors are installed and we can lock the house, the electricity will go in. This will probably happen while we are in Costa Rica, but we will go over all this with the electrician before we leave. We are working on the plans for the kitchen layout of cupboards and drawers.

Our good neighbor Nancy has offered to water the yard while we are gone. I don't know what we would do without her.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

What's new

Behold, the beginnings of roofcoverings (aka shingles)!





And I think this is a furnace:

Monday, July 02, 2007

Update list

  • Framing: The main parts are finished, except for a couple of walls in the garage and the family room in the basement.
  • Plumbing: The main parts are finished.
  • Roof: The shingles are ordered. They will be white.
  • Windows: They are being built, and will also be white.
  • Doors: My mom and dad spent last evening deciding on some of the outside doors and hope to get them ordered this week. The only hangup is that the company they were sent to doesn't have an outside french door for the master bedroom. They're going to work more on this today.
  • Furnace: The furnace man has been to the house and will be ready to start on the 9th of July.
  • Baths: Checking on these today, too.

My mom reports that Dennis still says he thinks he can have the house ready to move in by the end of September. Her deadline is to have Thanksgiving dinner in the new house. My dad says his deadline is the 24th of July.

Dog update: Lady has slowed down a lot this week and lost another two pounds. She has decided turkey lunch meat is good and has eaten some the past couple of days, but she is so weak she can't roll over and scratch her back in the grass anymore.