FIRE!!!

...in the fireplace. Yep, the fireplace is now hooked up and working. The outside air kit (draws air for the fireplace from outside the house instead of taking the nice warm air from inside) still needs to be ducted but for now it doesn't make a difference. Its going to be a little tricky to run the duct so for now I'm putting it off. It has to go down through the floor into the garage, along an inside wall, drop down out of the joist space, turn ninety degrees run for another 10 feet before going out the wall under the deck. I figure the ducting is just going to get in the way for now so I'm waiting till later to finish it.

I also got 3 of the upstairs bedroom windows in. I'm leaving 1 out to make it easy to get onto the roof.

Last Friday I went out and rented scaffolding. I then spent Saturday putting it up (and taking it down) on the garage end of the house and putting up the house wrap. I was also going to put in the 3 small windows the dining room. Unfortunately when I held the window up I realize that they had switched the dimensions and I had tall narrow widows (1'x2') for long short holes (2'x1'). For those of you that don't know anything about windows, they come with weep holes on the bottom edge to let any moisture out from inside. If I had used them they would have had weep holes on the side. I went down yesterday and they are replacing them for free sense it was their mistake. I'm keeping the wrong ones and going to use them in the garage which has no windows in it.

Sunday I had a few friends over to help me sort through the scrap pile the framers left. It had everything in it, plywood, OSB, dimensional lumber, garbage, etc. With the help of Steve, Mike J, Mike W, and Tammy (thanks guys!) we got it all sorted into piles and away from the house. Now I can easily get around the house instead of tripping over a pile of boards with nails sticking out. We also installed the last of the sliding doors. Now I just have to wait for Milgard to come out and glaze them (put the glass in).

This weeks mission is to get the great room windows in, the back side of the house wrapped, and install the two windows in the master bedroom. Then I can jump back to plumbing..