An exercise in patience: Day 23-27

It has been a few days since we've had a post. Not a lot of dramatic changes over this time but we'll catch you up on the happenings.

The issues brought up during the walkthrough have been corrected. All of the light cans on both floors have been aligned and centered as best as they could get them.

All of the siding and fascia work has been done including replacing an area on the west side of the house with hardie board that we've had a problem with water damage... no more! They also repaired the fascia on the west corner of the house where a squirrel couple decided that our attic was a nice place to live so they chewed up the corner to make a grand entrance to their new home.

The corner which became the main entrance for our unplanned squirrel habitat in process of being repaired

The first wave of insulation has been installed. That would be the batts for any walls touching unconditioned space including ceiling areas where there is no attic. The insulation was supposed to be done on Friday but they had a truck break down but it was installed on Saturday. The blow-in insulation and the additional radiant barrier will be done after drywall is in.

Some of the insulation in the office.

On Monday, the city inspector inspected the insulation and gave a green tag and now drywall can be installed.

The back door and the windows were both delivered on Monday morning. One of the windows had a crack so they will have to repair that and there were no screens which will have to be delivered later. Also the door company delivered the correct door frame for the french doors but the wrong doors which fortunately they corrected later in the day. The windows and doors were installed on Monday.

Doors and windows add a whole new dimension to the look. Notice they are adding little decorative elements along the roof line that Ryan designed in.

The decorative elements that you see in the above picture are fairly hefty carved cedar blocks.

Close-up of one of the cedar decorations for the rear roofline

We went shopping for tile over the weekend picking up a few samples to show the girls and get their opinions. We've decided on the the following.

This will be the flooring for the entry and stairway as well as on the risers for the stairs

This is the pattern for the kitchen floor but with little red squares instead of the little white ones in the corners. Gonna be a lot of marble cutting for Andy... all of these borders and little squares have to be custom cut... maybe he'll finish sometime in this decade. Another possibility is to use a subset of the backsplash tiles for the corners.

We will put wood flooring in the rest of this area. In the upstairs we will likely use some type of laminate since there will be office chairs rolling around and folks exercising.


This will be the backsplash in the kitchen... may use four of these little squares in the floor pattern

Monday also saw the installation of the granite vanities for the master bath. Over the weekend Andy played electrician moving outlets and switches so the six inch backsplash will fit. That also required that he play drywaller as well to patch the holes. Then after the granite was in, he put his plumbers hat, and droopy pants, on to install the sinks and faucets.