Day 14 - 9/21/2010

As we mentioned in yesterday's post, we are getting into the phase where there are not dramatic visible changes as we've seen over the last week.

As usual, the crew got after it around 7 am working all morning adding more roof decking.  However, after their lunch break, they covered the roof up with the blue tarp.  It was looking a bit cloudy and spotty rain started popping up.  I guess they decided to not take a chance.  Maybe another day before the roof is made watertight.

Instead, they did more detail work on the framing.  They added metal support braces to places where rafters were toe-nailed together and they started addind ceiling rafters to the upstairs.  At least those were the things that were obvious to Andy.

The office ceiling rafters are now in place and most of the temporary supports are gone.  Notice that the ceiling vaults from 8 ft to 9 ft.

We have decided to re-purpose the current living room into a large formal dining room.  The new dining room will be used as an informal dining area.  Monica wanted a place to sit at least 10 people.  The new formal dining room will allow us to keep the big table fully extended and still have room for the china hutch, the sideboard and the liquor cabinet.  It has the fireplace and the wet bar, so that will work out well.

However, there is no place for a dining light fixture.  Andy has requested for the electrician to add in a switch and connection for a fixture and we have ordered the fixture that Monica likes.

The new dining light fixture.

Otherwise, we are waiting for the granite company to come out and template the master bath vanities and waiting for the accent tiles to arrive so Andy can finalize and purchase the base tiles for the tub surround.  Hopefully, this weekend he can start laying the floor and tub surround tile.

Andy actually got a night off for us to have dinner with his sister and his niece, her husband and cute little girl.