The Chimney is In

The Fireplace chimney has now been installed (through the roof), and the skirt roof is complete.

The drywall is ready to be painted, and the cement floors have been stained.

This coming week: Painting and tiling begins!

Drywalling Continues

The drywalling continues - we are now in the final stages of the mudding / sanding process. Once this is complete we can start with the finishing of the floors. Hopefully it will start this coming week.

The gable roof has now been added, and it is being completed this week as well.

Another new neighbour

Yet another photo of some new neighbours awaiting our arrival.....

New neighbour

Our future neighbours have sent us a picture they captured of another new neighbour just waiting for our arrival....a rare BLACK fox.

Drywall is up!

The drywall is up throughout the house! This next week will be spent mudding the drywall and covering all of the screws.

Take a look at some of the photos - everything looks like a sea of white right now.

Have your Say!

We erroneously ended up with Brown fascia and WHITE soffits....we were intending both to be Brown. We would like to hear your vote - what do you think of the Brown / White Combo???? Keep in mind that the house colour will eventually be yellow, not the white you see today.

Click on Comments to add your thoughts.

What's Going On?

It has been awhile since I've updated the blog that's because progress has been slow due to the holidays. There have been some changes though:

• The wall framing is just about complete


• The electrical system has been roughed in
  
• The plumbing has been roughed in
  
• The HRV (Heat Recovery Ventialation system) is in


• The Geo Thermal system has been installed and turned on. There is now heat in the radiant floor.


• The radiators have been installed upstairs.
  
• The fireplace has been installed...the chimney just needs to be put through the roof.


• The skirt roof installation is in progress.

Next week: Drywalling begins!

The main floor, with the back of the kitchen wall. (A pantry / cold storage room will be behind this).

The skirt roof is being added - there will be a gable roof in the middle section.

The fireplace (including a pot hanging inside for cooking!)

A very simple and straight forward maintenance room! This is just part of it...I think we'll need a week long seminar to figure out what everything is and how it works!


The radiators. What can you say....they are ugly as hell (not what we envisioned at all!), but we do need to heat the upper floor....


Some of the framing. This is the closet of the yoga room (great room upstairs), adjusted for shelves and separate storage in the top section.

A Sight for Sore Eyes

Work continues in the house on framing, electrical and plumbing.

In the meantime, our soon to be neighbours sent a photo taken Monday morning (Jan 12th) outside their window. It looks like we'll soon have some furry neighbours too!