Day 238 - framing almost complete.

Thursday - December 1st! December??? Wow! Time is sure flying.

Well, I got to the house in daylight today, so was able to take some photos. Lots of progress to show you.

This is the arch from the hallway to the great room. Note that the radius of the curve here matches the radius of the curve on the top of the window. The plastic obscures the partition a bit, but it will be beautiful. There will be a column on each side of the opening to the great room.

This photo is looking using the special X-Ray Vision setting on the camera to see through the wall of the closets to the master bath. There are lots of wires and plumbing. The plumbing store that is supplying our fixtures delivered the two tubs, a toilet, the bath faucets, and the shower valves.

Dave is taking advantage of the nice weather to build the last of the returns for the gable ends. We are supposed to get some light snow tomorrow, so there won't be too much more opportunity to do this. Snow usually doesn't stick here until after mid-December, but that is only 2 weeks away!

This is a photo of the basement. As you can see, there is lots of plumbing etc... here. The plumbers are using this white tubing for the main part of the plumbing. Since the tubing looks the same, how do you tell teh hot and cold supply apart? Well, the plumbers put black tape on the cold supply.

As part of the weather proofing, all the gaps around the windows and doors are foamed, as well as the sill plate and the cuts in the foam created by the electricians when they are doing their work. You can see all the foam around the windows and the sill plate in this photo.

Here Patrick is installing the hurricane clips on the trusses. Patrick wasn't feeling well so he went home a few minutes after this.

In other developments...

Fireplace... installation scheduled for Monday
Countertops... we originally wanted to get granite counters for the kitchen and master bath. However, when we changed the sink/faucet for the powder room, we thought we would like to get granite for the powder room as well. The company that we were going to hire to supply the granite quoted us what we considered an outrageous price for that 3' piece of granite. (Just to show how unreasonable it was, the Orange Borg price was only $31 more -- and the OB is one of the most expensive.) We found a local granite supplier that will supply and install all the granite, including the powder room, for a slightly lower price than our initial supplier. (If they hadn't been so unreasonable about the powder room counter we never would have looked for another quote...)