Another video going back

So much has happened....

...and since I have no time to recap everything that has happened, I'll just give you the last sentence: Me-Mah has moved in!

:@)

Here is a video she took. (Please keep in mind she has not completely settled in yet, and we still need to put in her window sills and attend to her "lovely" view out her windows!)

Finished...sort of...

September brought with it an amazing amount of rain. We only had 5 days without rain that month! So needless to say, we have nto gotten too far. However, we do have some good news to report:

The plumber has come and gone, leaving behind him a perfect plumbing system. Yay! And Jay and Ryan finished putting up the drywall.

Soon after, the drywall finishers showed up and "finished" the walls, filling in the seams and screw holes. They will be back Monday or Tuesday to sand it down and touch up anything that may need more mud. After they do that, they will be appling a texture to the walls to minimize any visible settling cracks and smudges. (we do have 5 messy kids, so smudges are just part of the deal if Mom lets them visit!)

When they are fixing the walls, we will be in town buying the paint, countertops, flooring and cabinets. Once the painting and flooring are done, we can pretty much call it a done deal, as everything else takes very little time. Oh yeah - except for the wood trimming around windows and doors. That can take awhile. But we're on it, Mom, and you'll be coming "home" soon! :)

More updates

Lots of progress! Here is a siding picture -it almost looks like a real house now! This angle is looking at the window that looks out the side of her livingroom. The left of the window will be her bedroom wall.

This is a shot into the bedroom. The wall on the left is the inside of the outside wall shown above (did that make sense?)

Another siding shot. Main entry way door is installed. if you open that door, you will enter the breezeway. Smaller window is in the "diningroom" and the larger window is the livingroom area.

View looking "through" the inside kitchen/diningroom wall through the bathroom wall (see white vent pipe going up in the center of the picture) and towards the back closet wall, which is now completely enclosed with drywall. Mom will have a large walk-in closet which will be accessed through the bathroom.

And here are the hard working men, putting up the ceiling. Those drywall sheets are HEAVY! I'll bet they're glad they are done with that job! Next steps: finishing putting up the drywall (10% left to do) and mud the drywall (we'll have the pros come in for that)

Building is a Breeze

The breezeway is built!

Looking straight through from our livingroom doorway, through the breezeway and into Mom's doorway leading into her house.

Ryan framing the back breezeway wall.

Breezeway enclosed with the sheathing. Picture taken from our soon-to-be livingroom.

Front view of the house. the cut out in the center of the picture will eventually be the front door, which leads into the breezeway. Enter and turn left for Mom's house and turn right for our's.

The weeds will be replaced by wood decking and it will all look much better soon! More progress coming this week. There is rain in the forecast but the temperatures will be in the high 80s to low 90s.

Next steps will be doors and electrical work.

Major case of the shingles

(Ry the roofer guy)

( Happy father and son team)

Above and below are some more pics of the few days before shingle day.

(Standing just outside the diningroom between the 2 houses, looking up at the roof going in)

(Standing in our livingroom looking through the breezeway, into Mom's dining/livingroom)

And below is the result of yesterday's work. Ryan and his friend Colton did an EXCELLENT job installing an entire side of roof shingles (See the right side of the roof). Thanks guys!

This is the other side of the roof for the house and breezeway with just the tar paper lining.

See the window installed there to the right of the ladders? That is the dining room window! The ladders are blocking the huge livingroom window opening. We hope to finish the roof and get all windows and doors installed so the electrician can come in and wire it up. Dare I say that list of "chores" will be done by this weekend?

Stay tuned!

Raising the roof!

The weather is great today, and Eddie, Jay's construction manager at work, came down to build a house on his day off. What a guy! Thank you Eddie!

This is the truck delivering the trusses the other day.

And these are the guys hard at work!

Ta-Da! Trusses up!

Our computer no longer wants to connect to the internet, so posts will bea little sporatic (so what's new?) but rest assured, we will still keep you posted with lots of pics!