Day 227 - a day of details...

We met Charles and the roofers at the site today at 10am. We took a box of timbits for the roofers, to help them keep their strength up. We spent about 2 hrs with Charles going over details of placement of fireplace, showers, bathtubs, toilets, etc... Soo many details! And then after we got home, we spent about 4 hrs going over the trim requirements. Our brains hurt!

This photo is in the garage. There are four loops of heating tubes placed in the garage. It is not quite sufficient and there is a small gap there. It hardly seems necessary to put in another set of heating manifolds and buy another 1000' feet of tubing for this, so the tubes will just be shifted around slightly to fill in the gap.

This is the front door, sans window, secured against the elements etc. As previously noted, the doors were ordered without windows in error.

The blog entry from April 12th (architectural drawing) shows the windows in the doors.

This is the window for the solarium. As the glass for the central pane is missing, the crew put a piece of plywood over the opening and fastened it to the window frame. You may recall that the rough opening was a bit too big, so the window was raised up. The gap underneath was faced with styrofoam and filled with fiberglass insulation.

This the main bath area. As you can see, the drain for the tub is on the right, which makes it a right-hand (RH) tub. Charles asked us to confirm the dimensions of the tub and the installation method, so the walls could be framed precisely. We went to the plumbing supply place and discovered the order had a LH tub! Fortunately it is a stock item so there was no restocking fee.

This cloud turned out to have a silver lining... While we were there, Andre checked the status of the order, and everything had arrived excepted for the main bath sink and a towel bar. We looked up the main bath sink and discovered it was a sink with 8" centers, but the tap (which we bought months ago) has 4" centers. As the supplier hadn't shipped the sink yet (although it was schedule to ship on Monday), we asked him to cancel that order and change it to a 4" center. Hopefully Andre was successful in this!

Before we went into the house, we threw the kong around for Tawny. Despite the frosty temps, Tawny went into the water a few times and swam around. When we got into the house, she picked up this short piece of 2x4 here (in front of her) and ran around. It took me about 5 times to get a picture of her that wasn't a blur, and was only able to get this one because I got her to sit down first.