Lots of Pictures!!!!

This is part of the wall for the back wall. A big window fits in the opening. Dad, Tyler, and myself worked on it (mostly Dad and Tyler, but I did help a bit!!)






Dad and Tyler putting the wall into place.











Looking at the great room.















This is the dormer over the master bedroom. Todd and Uncle Steve were working on it this morning. This is what stage it was at when I arrived at 12:30pm.





Todd placing plywood on the dormer. (This is before I did the beer run!!!)














This is the dormer after I got back from the beer run at 3:30!









Nathan was lending a helping hand this afternoon!









This is part of the sheathing over the great room.








Thanks for helping out Tyler!!








The rafters for the dormers over the master bedroom and office. I carried them into the house, and they are heavy!!!

Pictures

Hotdogs for lunch!!











Rafters over the master bedroom. The empty space will be a dormer.

















The wall above the master bedroom--Josh's final bedroom wall!!!












Dormer sheathed in in Josh's room


















The view east from Josh's room. Jacob's room is on the left (you can't see it), the staircase down is on the right, and you are looking at Nathan's room on the far end.

The drywaller was out today to take measurements, so we should have a quote back by next week hopefully. I talked to ATCO gas, and the earliest they will be ready to install the gas line would be the end of March, but that works out okay, as they have a $10/m winter charge, so we may even ask them to come in a bit later than that (mid-April). I have all 3 kitchen quotes back, so now it is decision time. I think it will be between Ponoka Cabinet Makers and Legacy Kitchens here in Calgary. There are some advantages to each one, and a few disadvantages. They are all priced higher than we had hoped, but what can you do (other than go with a completely different cabinet style than what we are looking for!!). Todd was working on the wall, and closet, in Josh's room that would look down to the master bedroom (if it was open to below) today.

Rafters on Master Bedroom

Todd was out at the house yesterday. He laid down some more of the insulation for the in-floor heat (we are now about 2/3 done). It was a little too cold to start running the pipe though--it didn't have enough flexibility.
Todd also got all the rafters on above the master bedroom (9 rafters, including 2 double ones). He is then going to start to work on the extension from those rafters, as we have a covered porch off our master bedroom. The extension needs to be put in place before we can start sheathing the back of the roof.
I am meeting a drywaller out at the house today, to get our first local quote. We do have one quote from a company out in Ontario, so we'll see.
I recieved a quote back from Ponoka Cabinet Makers on the kitchen, bathroom vanities, and some cabinets in the laundry room. It ended up being about $1000 less than Legacy, but Ponoka's also included the laundry room (which was about $1500 worth of cabinets). I should be hearing back from Adora Cabinets by the end of this week, and then we will make a decision.

Roof Partially Sheathed

Insulation for the infloor heat

Another busy weekend out at the lot. Some more interior walls were put into place, and a fair amount of plywood was put on the roof at the front of the house. Gravel was delivered in the basement last week, so I started to put down the insulation for the in-floor heat in the slab today. I think Todd and I will try to get out there a few nights this week to get that finished, and then we can get the slab poured in the basement and garage (and then put some toys down there for the kids to play with when we are out working on the house!!!). Our hope is still to be locked up by the end of March, so we'll see if we can meet our deadline.