Tuesday, January 29, 2008

There has been a lot of activity but it seems like very little progress lately. I've been busy the last couple of weeks doing the DWV plumbing. Its been really tricky to plumb because there is 3 bathrooms and a laundry room all stacked on top of each other and it seems like there is no common walls to each floor. So its a matter of trying to find the easiest way to route the pipe without framing in a bunch of plumbing chases. I've done a pretty good job of it but it has taken much longer that I wanted it too. The other side of the house will be much simpler because all I have over there is one upstairs bathroom and the kitchen. After that is done I can then start the supply piping.


Two Fridays ago the roofing was delivered. Unfortunately it then sat on top of the roof for a week and a half. The unfortunate part is that the weather was great during this time and would have been perfect for getting the roofing down. The owner of the roofing company finally got out last Friday and started laying shingles down himself with one person helping him. On Saturday he came back and worked by himself for 5 or 6 hours. Of course, it started to rain again on Saturday. He said he would be back on Monday but the snow put a hold on that! Hopefully he'll be back soon.

I was surprised one day last week to walk out and see windows in my garage. I can't wait to get started on that. I also ordered my sliding glass doors, all 7 grand worth, ouch. Luckily I had more that enough budgeted but it still hurts. At least I could put it on my credit card and get miles!! I tried to convince them to give me a discount as they are coming from Milgard which is less that 5 miles from the house but no deal. The should be delivering on Friday. It will be great to all the glass in so I can get some heat in the place.


In this last picture you can see I've hung plastic over the windows. When it rains the water blow right inside and gets the floor all wet. It worked great until last night when the wind really picked up. I walked out this morning to find half of it on the ground, crap! I'm going home at lunch to put it back up. You can also see the left upper roof with its shingle on.

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