How’s the project going?

We both heard that question a few times last week; it’s time to catch ya’ll up.

Things have kind of slowed down here momentarily. Dave’s been working hard at the job that he actually gets a paycheck for – which will come in handy to pay for this little folly of ours. Yesterday afternoon he made the comment to me, “I guess I’d better get going up there or we won’t be back upstairs until 2014.” He had about an hour to himself before, beep…beep…beep… his pager went off. So it goes.

Before Matt the Carpenter left he threw in a couple little extras for us...

It's difficult to see in the photo below, he furred out the exterior wall under the trusses so that Dave will have something to attach the drywall to.

Matt also framed in the doorway to the new room.

Then we waited a week for the inspector's first visit.

We passed the initial inspection with the exception that we have to attach hurricane straps to the trusses. Code says we must. So we shall.

These sexy little gadgets are hurricane straps...

 

In my opinion, strap is a misnomer; they should be called hurricane brackets. Whatever you want to call them, 50 cents a piece is a small price to pay in the event hurricane strength winds blow through our hamlet.

We’ve had a few hard rain storms recently; happily there are no leaks in the new roof. We were upstairs the other evening when a strong storm came through. The rain was swirling in the gale force winds. (Really, Uncle Paul, they were gale force winds!) There was a bit of spray blowing in from the eaves, the siding guys have not made an appearance yet so the eaves are still open. We anticipate the siding will go up some time this week.

Next up is pulling the electric.

Then the electrical inspector comes.

New heat runs & cold air returns.

Then we can insulate.

Insulation gets inspected.

Drywall can go up.

Final inspection.

Finishing touches like woodwork, trim, paint, light fixtures, carpet…seem rather far off at this point. Poor Dave.