Inspections scheduled!!

We have the framing inspection, as well as the electrical inspection scheduled for next Wednesday. Hopefully we will have everything ready by then!! The electrical is almost complete, just a few little things. Todd is going to finish framing the basement walls tonight, and will then rent a concrete nail gun to nail the walls to the floor. Todd and I still need to rough in the infloor heat for the 2nd floor bathroom, and we also need to install the central vac roughins. We will keep busy for the next week for sure--all those little things add up!! The insulators are still set to start on the 15th, although I have a feeling they will probably start on the Monday. While they are insulating and drywalling, we will be working on siding, and putting shingles on the east side of the garage roof.
I will hopefully have some pictures to post tomorrow evening, as I am staying at home tonight!!

More Tyvek and another window

Another day out at the land!! Todd rented us a rototiller this morning, so the boys and I got our garden in--we planted corn, sunflowers, onions, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, pumpkins and strawberries. I had fun running the rototiller--and Joshua had fun running through the dirt.... Our neighbour to the west was nice enough to come over with his front-end loader and scrape the top layer of dirt off for us, so it was a lot easier to till the ground.

Dad H and Todd worked on electrical today. They put up the potlights in Joshua's room, Jacob's room, the chandlier box at the top of the staircase, and a few other lights
These are the potlights in Joshua's room.
Todd also Tyveked the east side of the house, and put in Nathan's window. We only have 3 windows left to put in--2 in the garage, and Jacob's!!!!

My wall fit!!!! We put this wall up last night. Dad L and Mom L were down yesterday to help out. We finished off the mainfloor staircase, and put up Tyvek on the west side of the house and the front of the house.
Todd was working on the ridge vent yesterday. You can see it along the peak of the dormer. It is a SOS material, and then shingles cut into 1/3 laid over top and nailed down.

More of the ridge vent.
Tyvek on the west side of the house--I went up in the lift to install some of it yesterday--my first time!!!
A picture of the house from the front.

Lots of little things...

We have been working on lots of little things that need to get done--backing at the peak, backing along the south wall with all the windows, framing in the bathtubs, etc. Todd also started to Tyvek the outside of the house. We put in Joshua's window as well. We are down to only having 4 windows left, and 2 doors. Jacob's window can't go in until after the drywall has been delivered, as they are going to lift the drywall through his window so that they have some drywall sheets on the second floor.

Todd Tyveking the south wall.
Framing around the 2nd floor bathtub--we are going to have a little shelf to place toys, shampoo, etc on to.
Backing around the windows on the south wall. Lots of little cuts with angles.....
Backing at the peak (kind of hard to see, but it is there...)
Tyveking the outside of the house.


This is the west wall. It now has Joshua's window in, and the tyvek has been started.

Nathan enjoys playing in his playpen out at the house. He plays with his toys, and has his naps in there!