Showing posts with label roof. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roof. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

roof started basement poured

So they came this morning and poured the basement floor in.
They also came and tar papered the roof. I think that they were thinking that it would help with all the rain they are calling for this weekend.
The worst part about all this is it seems like they are waiting on the roofers and nothing else can move forward until the roof is done.
Jamie and Mike insist that we will be in to have Thanksgiving in the house but our contract says the 17th of October so we'll see how that goes. I hope they are right. It is hard sometimes in this trailer.
Midnights + 2 kids + dog + one large tin can = one cranky Momma
trying to keep it together. I would not recommend this to anyone!!
We'll manage though it's coming.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Stirling fair..busy day.

So today was an excellent day at the house. The plumber was there and got his drains all in the basement and the layout done for the future bathroom downstairs. He got all the pipes hooked up upstairs and some of his lines ran. he won't be back now for a bit to tie it all in together. Once the basement is poured and he can get at it better in the finished state.
The electrician also came back and got everything done except the panel box. All the wires, boxes inside and out, the cable and phone wires and light fixtures are all up and ready for the insulators and drywallers to come. Woo Hoo finally no rain today!
Colin and Ritchie also came and tar papered the roof to hopefully keep some of the water out of the house and the chipboard floors and roof in tact! until the steel guys come. Whenever that might be. I know DorAnn is new at the steel so they didn't really have a contractor to do it so they had to find one. So I guess they will come when they have a moment to do it.
Today was also the Stirling fair opening. Since Dalton is still away, I thought that it would be nice for me to take Tyson. Just some Mommy and me time.
He had a great time. As you can see by his face. I don't believe in wasting money on the games for a toy they will never play with anyway so I always tell them we will buy them something seems more practical as they are more likely to use it.
Can you imagine what Tyson picked out? We didn't get by the hat booth and he saw a tractor hat. With a green John Deere tractor on it. So that is what he had to have! For a boy that wouldn't wear a hat last year, to not wearing anything but a John Deere hat I dunno.
Here are a few pics of the fun!


It was getting cool by the end of the night but he had a great time. But you would never guess that no would ya.
All in All on successful day!


Thursday, August 7, 2008

1/2 a roof!!

Today Ian and his workers managed to get 1/2 of the roof rafters up it was quite a sight to see. Kinda cool. I have pictures but they have been lost in my computer and are yet to be found!span>

So until I do my description will have to do! The rafters are half up and they have to finish the north side of the house and the dormer. I suppose that will come last after the others are attached.

So tomorrow the plan is to finish securing the rafters and then put the plywood on. Then it will look like an actual house!! I can't wait. I must say it is pretty cool to watch a house go up if you don't really know much about houses.

So stay tuned and you'll continue to see progress!! I hope!!