Week 17- insulation

More electric this week. The living room is done. The kitchen still needs to be wired for the stove and the basement needs to be wired for outlets and lights. They put in speaker wires, phone wires, and TV wires in the living room.

Insulation was started today. The north living room wall and balcony area are done.

A big part of the west wall is done...

...and some of the south living room wall. As you can see in the foreground, there is still a lot of insulation to put in!

The "attic" storage area walls over the new bathroom are also insulated.

Here is the vanity and sink we bought for the new bathroom.

Week 16 electric and plumbing

We got two doors in today, the door to the basement under the kitchen and the east door of the living room.

The windows for the dormer also came in...

And a tub/shower...

The plumber and electrician were busy this week. Pipes and wires everywhere! Unfortunately some of it will need to be redone, like the thermostat for the kitchen heater is placed right in the middle of the only wall in the kitchen! Why didn't they put it at the edge!? And they put in the bathroom plumbing for a 3 ft vanity when we got a 4 ft vanity! They'll need to move the toilet closer to the shower.

Most of the lights are the recessed can lights- lots of light for not a lot of money!

Week 15 electric and shingles

The electrician was here before I left for work this morning. They put in lots of boxes and strung a lot of wire. He thinks he may be able to finish Monday or Tuesday!



The roofer also came today and did the vent cap and the rest of the shingling on the addition and closet.

Week 15 more windows

They installed the other windows in the addition, except the 4 they don't have yet. The biggest difference we notice today though is that they replaced the windows in the current kitchen and living room. Huge difference!! The two upstairs bedroom windows will also be replaced. The windows are here, just not installed yet. There are two basement windows that didn't get ordered, and the two for the dormer aren't in yet. The doors should be in sometime next week. Tomorrow the roofer is supposed to come and finish the shingles and cap vent. The plumber and electrician may start tomorrow also!

Current living room outside...

and inside...this room will become our dining room when the addition is done.


Kitchen window outside...

and inside. (Ignore the sink full of dirty dishes!)

Week 15 WINDOWS!!!!!!

We have windows!!!! Yea!!!!! Most of them are here, about half are put in. We have some questions about a couple of them but I'm glad they are finally getting windows in!

Week 15 rain...again

Rain, rain go away, I wanted the workers to come today!!!

Closet walls

We worked our tails off putting up more osb board on the closet walls. The north and south walls are done. The west wall needs just a little work where we need to leave access to the crawl space. The east wall- which shares 1/2 it's wall with the house- still needs to be done. I don't know why that pic loaded sideways!!!