Snow, Snow, Go Away.....

The boys thought it was really neat out at the house today--it was raining inside the house while it was nice and sunny outside the house!!! We had a little bit of snow over the last few days, and it was melting this morning. Hopefully by tomorrow the house will be dried out, and I can do a good clean again!!
Todd worked on finishing up the backing (putting is spare pieces of wood so that the drywall has something to be nailed to) inside the house this morning. Something that needs to be done, but you can't really notice anything different about the house.
Some good news--the shingles were dropped off yesterday. The bad news--they wouldn't drive down the driveway to drop them off close to the house, so they dropped them off right at the road. Todd managed to get stuck trying to move the first load of shingles closer to the house (on his truck). After that, it was pack one bundle in at a time, so not too many bundles made their way to the house itself.
After supper tonight, Todd and Dad L were just starting the roofing of the office. They had a row of shingles on when I left. It will be a long process, but hopefully we will be done shingles by the end of May.
Joshua had a great time out at the house today. He found a great mud puddle, and played in and around that for about an hour this morning. He had dirt/mud everywhere!!! Jacob really doesn't like to get too dirty, so he laid down some wood to form a bridge across the puddle!! Nathan had a nice little nap....
I will take some pictures tomorrow morning and post them in the afternoon. I will then hopefully post some more tomorrow night as well.

We changed our minds...

Well, we changed our minds on the shingles. We are now going with a 30 year, I do believe it is IKO Cambridge, still in Driftwood colour though.

IKO Cambridge 30 year

UPDATE--The slab in the garage and basement will not be poured until next week. The weather is just not going to cooperate, and rather than sitting around waiting to see if we can pour or not, we just made the decision to wait until next week, when the weather is hopefully better!!

Or maybe not...

Looks like the weather may not cooperate for us this weekend either--we are supposed to get more snow--YUCK!!! It is supposed to start raining or snowing tonight, and continue right through the weekend. 70% chance of rain or snow on Saturday--will spring never come???? Hopefully we can get the basement floor poured tomorrow so that we can start working on framing the exterior basement walls instead of shingling if the weather isn't cooperating....

A decision made!

I was having a hard time deciding on exactly what shingles to go with, but now that we need them for this weekend, I've had to make a decision. We are going with a 25 year IKO shingle--Aristocrat, Driftwood coloring. We are planning on having either olive green siding or a dark beige siding, so I figured these shingles would look best. They will hopefully be dropped off either tomorrow or Thursday. We are going to be getting the shingles from Roofmart, here in Calgary, but we will be getting the rest of the roofing supplies from the local (Okotoks) Home Hardware.

Link to see the shingle: http://www.iko.com/products/residential/residential.asp?product_id=155®ion_id=30&task=ProductDetailsColours

It also sounds as though the garage slab and basement slab will be poured tomorrow, as long as it is not raining too hard. Since we don't have shingles on yet, rain could come through the roof and make a mess of the floor, so we will see. We may end up putting up some tarps to keep the rain out.
Roofing will hopefully only take about 3 weekends, if we are lucky. Todd plans to work on it after work as well for the next few weeks, so we will see!!
Our heating contractor was out last week to determine where we would place the vents, so he should be starting in the near future as well.
It seems to be all coming together, so keep your fingers crossed!!!

Ready for Shingles!!!

Looks like we are ready for shingling next weekend--any helpers??? I was in at Home Hardware today to get a quote on shingles and all the other supplies. I am going to check at Home Depot, and Totem tomorrow, as well as Roof Mart (which specializes in roofing materials--go figure with a name like that!!!)

Sunday's Work

Leo and his crew were up today to put rebar in the the garage so that the floors can be poured this week. Looks like we will be bringing in a pumper truck to put the floor in in the basement.

We are now accepting guests at the front door!!!

The entire house is now sheathed--we were missing a few sheets on this west wall (you can see it in the previous post-I do believe).

This afternoon, a few more windows were put into place. We now have a total of 15 windows in, plus the front door. I lied earlier about there only being a total of 22 windows--we still have about 20 windows to put in, plus 3 patio (sliding) doors, and 3 doors.

Windows in the master bedroom. Our bed will sit between these 2 windows, with a side table under each window.

The west wall of the house, as well as part of the south wall. We won't be putting in any more windows until the shingles are done, as we need to lean ladders up against the upper part of the roof, etc.

Saturday's Work (and Party!!!) Great room completely sheathed with the roof extension and overframing completed on the back peak (can't see that from this angle!!)

Happy Birthday Grandpa!!

Office dormer sheathed.

Header in above window--still needs to be sheathed.