If you check my Flickr stream at all, you’ll see that progress on our house continues to zoom along. We went over on Tuesday evening to find that framing had been finished and they’d started putting up sheathing and plywood walls. We even have a chimney now! Woo.
They’d also done a lot of the bracing and reinforcing. On Saturday the frame was just wood and nails, but on Tuesday it was wood, nails, and a lot of steel brackets and screws.
The skylight in the dining room already looks like a skylight, so that was pretty cool. The only bad thing was that it was obvious they’d used the thermo-ply sheathing around the skylight and bonus room from the same pile that got soaked in all the rain last weekend. You could tell because it was warped and dirty. We asked them about it and they say it’s not a concern unless it can’t be sealed properly. That agreed with what we’d seen and heard elsewhere, so we will just keep an eye on it.
Last night I had to be elsewhere, but Jose went over on his own to get another progress update and took some iPhone photos. They’re starting the roof, just like we’d hoped!
We even have some plumbing, and two water heaters! While we were over in the neighborhood on Tuesday, we stopped and walked through a different house that’s about 2-3 weeks ahead of ours in the construction process. It had all the ducting, wiring, and plumbing done but hadn’t been sheetrocked yet, so it was nice to see a house at that stage so we know what to expect in our own over the next couple weeks. Still, I was not expecting to have any plumbing just yet. Very cool.
Heck, one part of the house even has siding in place! I was really surprised to see this.
I can’t help but wonder if we’ll have a full roof of shingles by the end of today. We’ll find out tomorrow when we take Jose’s mom and brother over to see the house. I’m excited to show it off to family for the first time. Up until now, no one’s seen it but us. Kelly and John said they want to stop in the next time they’re walking their dog…but said they were paranoid that we’d drive up while they were wandering through our house and they’d be embarrassed. I told them wandering through our house was fair game until there’s a lock on the door.
