September 2007


Nothing huge new – mostly they’ve been doing the finishing coats on the floor, which looks pretty great. But I wanted to show the color of the walls better and to show the nice sunlight. Recall that below the window on the right here will be a window seat. Nice!

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And another couple of pictures to show off the light:

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With a floor in place, today the painters came and did a second coat on the ceiling (which looks great) and primed and painted the walls the correct color (you’ll recall an error on the initial paint color). This is what we were hoping for, though the pictures don’t do a great job of showing it:

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And they did a primer coat on the shingles outside too – though there was a possibility that we wouldn’t get the outside paint until spring, it looks like we’re in good shape there too:

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Sanding and finishing of the floor will be Wednesday through Friday. I think that means cabinets next week. Whoo-hoo!

We have one:

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We also still, you will observe, have pink walls. I think those will be painted the correct color tomorrow. Then in some order the floors will be sanded and stained and the cabinets will be installed. Then there’s the trim and installing the outlets, switches, etc. I suppose there must be something more but not much. Getting close!

The paint fix will be later, it turns out. (Probably Friday of this week or early next.)

Instead, we’re getting the pipes for the in-floor heat. Cool (ha!) stuff:

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Just because I wanted to see what the insulation looked like down in the crawlspace and I saw a chance, I poked the camera down that hole and took a picture:

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I observe that some of the insulation is not happily up in the floor. Will have to note that for the contractor.

In the basement, nifty control stuff is getting put together:

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And where the other ends of those tubes come out:

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So we ordered this color of paint. AF-470. And the painter asked for AF-470. But the paint folks gave them AF-270 instead, and we got, well, pink:

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(That’s actually the primer, but it’s still the wrong primer for the wrong color.)

They’ll be coming back out tomorrow.

So yesterday they delivered the sheet rock:

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(Sixteen-foot pieces! Wow!)

And they got the new boiler hooked up and working:

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(They’ll have to come back to finish hooking it up to the in-floor heating in the addition, which obviously has not yet been installed.)

And then today – within just a couple of hours, all that sheet rock went up! We’ve got walls!

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(Remember that goofy-looking door is just temporary, making it so we don’t have a layer of dust over everything we own.)

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Whee!

This is facing the outside corner. The armoir (that contains our TV) will be just to the left of this view, with low cabinets on the other side of it below the window. We haven’t chosen colors yet, so they’re just there for texture.

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The insulation passed inspection today, so they can start sheet rock tomorrow. Today they added something to attach the ceiling sheet rock to (rather than directly to the rafters):

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And they also nailed down the plywood subfloor more permanently (except for a couple of pieces to allow the heating installers access:

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They also primed some mysterious pieces of trim; not sure what it’s for yet:

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And they did…stuff…along the bottoms of the wall. Shiny stuff:

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And the boiler looks much closer to ready to go, with pipes and vents and all sorts of neat things:

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And again, hooray for our contractor, who found someone to take away the 200+ gallons of heating oil left in our tank. The company we bought from showed no interest in taking it back, even without crediting us any money.

We apparently have to make decisions about the built-ins within a day or two, so I assume that’s coming soon, which makes sense. Vroom vroom!

Yesterday, we passed inspection on both the rough framing and rough electrical (including, I’m pleased to note, the speaker wiring I did):

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So today we got insulation:

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(Honest, there’s insulation under the plywood floor now. I saw it myself.)

Meanwhile, the siding continues to move along:

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And! They took away our (old, broken) boiler and brought in a new one:

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Purty, ain’t it? It’s natural gas instead of heating oil. The sub pointed out that we have 200+ gallons of oil in the tank, and he can’t cart that off, at least not all at once. Hopefully our oil vendor can come and take it away; I haven’t heard back from them yet.

The main carpenter is on vacation this week, and the secondary guy is mostly working on siding, which goes fairly slowly. But it’s coming along:

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To make up for the lack of dramatic house updates, some pictures from our camping trip to Maine:

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…and one from the first day of school:

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Tomorrow we’ll have inspections of the electrical and the framing, and then insulation can go in on Friday.