The rain.....

******I forgot to mention that we did finish the North side of the house with shingles. All that is left is the southwest roof slopes (great room and masterbedroom), and the east garage slope.******

Well, the rain (or should I say snow...) prevented us from finishing the shingles as we had planned. The crew worked on the basement walls instead on Monday, but it was a shorter day as it was quite cool and wet out!! The basement stairs were delivered yesterday, so now we can put in the landing, and get the stairs put in. That will be quite handy, instead of always having to go outside and go through one of the basement windows. Here is our list of things that needs to be completed before the drywallers can start insulating, and then drywall.

1. Landing for basement stairs and install stairs
2. Frame mainfloor staircase wall (to put railing on)
3. Backing at the peak of the ceiling (so drywall has something to be attached to)
4. Backing at dormers
5. Complete dormers to join up to wall (false ceiling)
6. Ceiling backing in games room
7. Backing at Nathan's closet in office
8. Shingles
9. Tyvek entire house
10. Windows put in (only 6)
11. Basement walls (we are about 2/3 complete)
12. Electrical
13. Finish fireplace
14. In floor heat in upstairs bathroom
15. Insulate corner of master bedroom
16. Heating
17. Plastic barrier over potlights

So, it is a fairly long list, but hopefully it won't take us too long to complete it. I think we are planning on having the insulation installation start on June 15ish. A lot of these jobs only take one evening, and some only an hour--like all the backing--it could all be done in one evening. Todd has been out there every night, and I try to get out to help him as well.

Fireplace

It was another windy day out at the acreage!! Made it tough to work on the roof, but Todd and Dad L stuck with it. They should complete the north side of the house today.

I insulated and put in the vapour barrier behind the fireplace. Hopefully I did it right.....

Here is the fireplace. The plain glass door comes off and we have an arched glass door, but we won't put that on until we have moved in and the rock is all complete on the fireplace--just in case!!!