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Here Come the Trades!

This week is all about the various trades coming in, from the electrician (whose team was wiring away today,) to the TV/AV wiring team, to the plumber coming Thursday, and the roofer beginning this week. We met with the electrician yesterday and his team of 7 (?) was in full swing today.

Today we also walked through the house with the cabinet guys. The last time we met with them, John and I asked the cabinet guys to include some extras like taking the cabinets in the kitchen and bar up to the ceiling, as well as paneling in the library. Since then we got the total for those extras and let’s just say some of the extras were a bit more than we want to spend. So with today’s walk through, we made some significant cuts on the nice to have elements that halved the overage costs.

Editing cabinets

The HVAC has obviously begun and some of the interior posts and beams have been framed out as well.

  • Dining room
  • Beam & duct work
  • Master bedroom
  • Laundry room

And finally the painters also painted all the trim and the chimney stucco, so the standing seam roof can begin this week.

Gotta love the pile of garbage in front of the house (*sigh*), and with the recent severe storms over the weekend, we lost a few cedar trees. Thankfully nothing damaged the house or barn construction.

Thar she blows! All the damage we sustained from the severe weather last week.

Things are definitely hopping and it’s already been a busy week with house building decisions. Thanks for stopping by to check on our progress!!

Hugs, Libby

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Roofline Emerges

Since returning from our cruise, we’ve been going to the home site each day, if only for a short amount of time. There have, of course, been a few more bumps in the road, and I am trying to remind myself that everything is figure-out-able. And maybe some of these challenges are blessings in disguise, even if it doesn’t feel like that.

One major improvement is that the road dried out enough from rains a few weeks back so the gravel base could be poured. This is not the completed road and more construction trucks and cement trucks for the barn will beat it up, but it is a base that can be used to create the final road next spring when the construction wraps up.

Windows and some of the doors have been delivered!

Windows and doors have also been delivered to the home site and the house exterior walls have been wrapped with Tyvek. John commented that he could now get a sense of the rooms and the flow of the house as everything is getting closed in.

The challenges we came home to included an issue with the thickness of the stone we wanted on the exterior chimneys. The stone would require that the living room windows get reframed and moved. Which would in turn mean that pieces of furniture inside the living room could not be placed as designed. Sigh

  • Living room
  • Living room
  • Dining room
  • Library
  • Kitchen
  • Master bedroom
  • Great room
  • Laundry room

Finally, we were told the stone on the chimneys above the roofline tends to crack and cause leaks over time. Umm, could someone have told us that back in April when we were getting bids for our house? Seriously…

Soffits going in on the porch

Those challenges aside, the home building has made great progress this week with roofing underlayment installation starting on Friday.

We enjoyed a beautiful sunset from the home site Friday night as we walked around and enjoyed all the progress made.

December 6th, and I’m wearing short sleeves outside! Standing at what will be the kitchen window.
Living room and dining room looking over the valley.

Thanks for stopping by! Next I’ll post about the barn progress, as the concrete gets poured at 5 am Monday morning for the barn foundation.

Hugs, Libby