Drywall!

We stopped by our house briefly yesterday (Saturday) evening and almost the entire upstairs had been drywalled! Not taped, but it was up! There was one section, right beside where the glass blocks are going that wasn't done, so not sure if that was an oversight or what, but that's good progress. I imagine that they were going to do the downstairs today.

I've misplaced the cable for the camera so can't upload any pictures for this post or the previous one. As soon as it turns up I'll update these posts. Update: found the cable! :)

Fenced in

We now have a new fence -- unfortunately it's a bit longer than we wanted it. It was supposed to stop at the edge of the paving stones, but it goes right past that to the edge of the garden. (We wanted to leave a walkway between our house and the neighbour's house.)

There is still no drywall up. It was supposed to have been started on Wednesday according to the builder on Tuesday. We went to the house last night (Friday) and there had been no work done since we were there last, which I think was on Tuesday. Brooke phoned him today and was assured that they were going to be working through the weekend to put up the drywall. We shall see!

Insulation

We went by the house on Saturday and took a bunch more pictures, so here they are.

Here's our new patio area along the side of the house. There is a wooden frame on the ground behind the rhodo which I believe is going to be placed around it to contain the dirt.

The insulation is in place now and it looks really good. Here's a picture of Brooke checking out how it is sealed around the window in the TV room.

The hole in the wall of the landing is framed off, but they apparently forgot to remove the heater. I think that'll be fixed, but if it ends up staying the way it is now, I think it'll look okay.

And just in case I didn't include a photo of it previously, here's my awesome new bathtub. There is a hole in the outside wall above it where the windows haven't yet been installed.

Tele-update

I just had a long conversation with the builder about the state of the renovations (he's a bit of a talker, but then so am I!) although I haven't been there today. He said the framing and plumbing inspections have been passed, and the guy doing the insulation was in there today (and will be tomorrow as well) and the inspection for that is scheduled for Monday. The drywall will go up after that -- originally (early last week) he had said the drywall would have been done late last week, so we've slipped by about a week. Once the drywall is in place, he figures there will be about seven 10-hour days worth of work to do all the painting and other finishing, so that sounds like two work weeks to me. I think he said the outside pavers were put down today (or will be done tomorrow?) and he's picking up the fence tomorrow, so that might get installed tomorrow as well.

When we were there yesterday we saw that the little seat between shower and tub has been framed, which led us to change our minds on where the lip of the shower should be. Originally we were going to have it go straight across, continuing the wall of the shower, but now we're going to angle it from the corner of the wall to the corner of the seat. The bathtub is in place, and the plumbing is all roughed in for the shower and tub. I imagine the toilet and sink are roughed in as well if the plumbing inspection has already been done, but I didn't notice that specifically.

The beam that goes through the middle of the skylight in the closet won't be able to be removed, but Brooke mentioned that we could put opaque glass at the level of the ceiling to just let the light through, and not actually see the beam.

Siding

When we were at the house yesterday, the siding was nearly complete. We haven't gone over there yet today but I wouldn't be too surprised if it's done now. The electrician had just finished installing the in-floor heating in the bathroom when we were there... and luckily Brooke noticed that he'd continued it right through under what is supposed to be the shower, so some of it had to come out again.

Our snazzy new bathtub has been delivered, I'm very excited about that! Too bad I won't be able to use it for quite a long time yet! It's just sitting in the TV room at the moment. We still need to pick out our faucets and such. Oh yeah, and then have it all installed and tiled.

We were originally planning to tile the shower and around the tub and then have lino on the floor, but the flooring guy said that he's seen that done, and it doesn't work so well, so recommended we tile the entire floor, so that's what we're doing. (And I know he really meant it because we would have bought the lino from him, but are buying the tile from someone else so he talked us out of a portion of our purchase from him!)

Photos!

First of all, here is our new daughter, Charlotte!


Here's the front of the house as of a couple of days ago. When we were there yesterday, the siding was starting to go on, so it's already changing.


This is what our roof looks like when viewed from above -- so it's not really V-shaped as it looks from the ground!


Brooke took this picture of me checking out the window in the new bedroom, shot through the wall of the walk-though closet.


When they first put in the skylight, there was a ceiling beam going right through the middle of it.

Then they fixed it.

I'm alive!

In case you were wondering :) Charlotte was born on May 28th and this is only the second time I've found any time to be on the computer since then.

The reno is coming along nicely! The windows are in, the roof is finished, the two skylights are in (there's a story about one of the skylights which I'll share later!) and the paper that goes under the siding is on. The siding is in the driveway, painted & covered with a tarp to dry, and will be attached soon. Inside, the interior walls have been framed, and the electrician has put in the wiring for the lights, outlets, etc. We're still waiting for the plumber -- the original plumber backed out, and I'm not sure if Sean has a new one lined up or if he's still looking. As soon as the plumber has plumbed the bathroom and moved the water tank, I believe the insulation and drywall can go up, so we're getting there!

I've got to go feed the baby, will try to get on again soon to post some photos!