Week 12 stairs and bathroom framework

Yesterday the builder did just a few small jobs. I think they needed more materials. Today they framed the bathroom. The door will be in the area on the left of the room so it doesn't open directly into the kitchen.




With the bathroom framed, you can see the breakfast nook. We will have a small table here where the two of us will probably eat most of the time. If we have more than 3-4 people we will use the dining room (the current living room.)

We also have all of the stairs in place now. It was the first time I went up onto the balcony and dormer. Dave has gone up several times on the ladder but I wanted to wait for stairs. It is wonderful!!

Week 12 dormer

No blogs for a few days because we were off celebrating 1 year of wedded bliss! We had a wonderful time!!

While we were gone the past 4 days...the dormer is framed in and shingles are on the main part of the addition. They still need to shingle the dormer. I guess they are going to reshingle that side of the original roof too. Must be easier to do that than to try to patch the dormer in!

Week 11 roof deck, ready for dormer

They finished the roof deck today. Tomorrow they will build the dormer and put down tar paper. The roofer is scheduled to be here Friday!!! We spent some time tonight going over the "blue prints" and noting where we want outlets. We will meet with the electrician next week. We had to come in about 7:30 because it was getting too dark! I guess summer is over!

Week 11 roof deck

Most of the fascia boards are up and about half the roof deck.

Week 11

Not much to report. Over the weekend we did more clean up of the wood shed sight. We are pretty burned out from working all the time. Today they did some fascia pieces on the living room roof rafters. That's all folks!

Week 10 more rafters

I was home sick today and was greatly entertained by the builders. They were laughing and having fun all day. I told them they were having way too much fun to get paid!!!

The rest of the rafters were put on today.

They are ready to start the dormer at the upstairs bedroom windows so there is enough height to make the windows into doors.

Week 10 rafters

Yesterday there was more prep work for putting in the rafters. In the process they ran into a bee or wasp nest and came today with spray to kill them. They were then able to cut the eaves off the current house and put up most of the living room rafters. They also cut out a couple more windows so they could use them for access to get the rafters into the house!