Insides are changing

Well it makes for bland blogging (and no pictures,) but the house got some work done on it this week. Looks like plumbing is underway. I know Bob was asking if they were going to use copper or the new flexible stuff, and the answer is "the new flexible stuff." On the upside you can't mistake the hot from the cold as one is white and one is red. I was just learning how to deal with the copper, not having plumbed much in my life, so now I have to look into this new stuff. I imagine it has a better insulation value then copper for the hot and cold, and I will suspect less condensation issues (as a direct result of the insulation.

I wonder what they will do with the exterior faucets?

There are lights

Always funny, XKCD is the master of graph jokes. My personal favourite is "There are lights" which is obviously a reference to probably one of Patrick Stewart's finest episodes of Star Trek, and an all around top ten episode in its own right.

Om Nom Nom

Roof Roofed

So here are some pictures of the house on Thursday, its probably the last exterior changes for a few weeks as they need to do all the electrical, and plumbing before they do the bricks and siding.

Inside the house, they have also installed our stairs, I am pretty confident those are our actual hardwood stairs, but they are covered in plastic, paper, and planks of wood to keep them safe.

This is our TV room with the sun pouring in at night. With the windows in and the roof on the rooms are starting to gain definition.

The site is muddy.... very very muddy.

Roof Sheeting and Doors

Work started up again on March 3, did some sheeting over the porch, and build up the framing for pouring the front patio.


They've also delivered some doors and windows.



I'm expecting a lot of changes today, it looked like they stared work again, and this stuff moves in waves, once they start something it finishes fast, so we will see.

Framing Feb 24 - Raise the Roof

Sorry, I did take pictures, but it is usually the next days pictures that push me to put up the last set, and the house didn't move for over a week.

So here is the last set of pictures I took, the roof went up in a day, just boom!

Snü

Seriously there has been so little snow this year that I didn't know what the stuff looked like anymore. We are now blanketed in a cool white sticky mess of it, ideal for snow balls, snow men, snow fortification, and FINALY, at long last snow blowing.

Okay so maybe it is just the Y chromosome but snowblowers are the pressure washer of the winter, and mine has been sitting all pristine and unused since its arrival this Christmas. I realize 1) the amount of snow we got, and 2) the size of my current drive way don't really warrant a snow blowing, but dammit I wanted to, and dammit I did, and it was good. :P

Our young monkey has established what snow angel's are, although his proficiency is more makes them more snow arm flanging, but we are working on it. He had a good romp in the snow until are lawn looked like a family circus cartoon, and his cheeks were red, but fun was had by all. (sorry no pictures, he was moving fast in low light they just didn't work out.)

Erin pointed out, and this will not make any sense if you don't play Bioshock, but it would be funny/creepy if the little sisters in that game pointed to a splicer trapped in ice and exclaimed in there little scary voice "look Mr Bubbles a snow angel."

As for the house, a little bit of work, they basically finished framing the last of the exterior walls, specifically the great room, which here unto now was looking more like an awesome porch you had to pass through to get upstairs:




The upstairs hall kind of cracked me up with the snow, it was a touch on the treacherous inside, I'm glad that the construction workers have taken the time to build hand rails on the temporary stairs.


Of course, my favourite piece of all the framing arrived as well, the trusses, I love trusses, no seriously, first year statics, was awesome! (I am actually being serious, statics was one of my favourite courses, for lay persons, Statics is effectively the Physics of stuff that under normal circumstances isn't moving, as well as all that free body diagram stuff.)

Views from the great room

One of the things that makes the great room so great is you can see the rest of the house from it, upstairs, front hall dining room, and back into the kitchen.

Dining Room:


Kitchen:


Front Hall:



Alright thats all my pictures for the weekend. I wanted to get one good set of shots in bright light.

Second Floor (now with 30000' ceilings)

Here are some shots from the second floor that they pretty much framed in one day. They work fast.

View from master bedroom


Upstairs Hall


Front bedroom


Middle bedroom


Bedroom adjacent to master bedroom

Interior Shots

Dining Room


Front Entrance from the top.


Front entrance looking in.