For at least the last week, it has been in the low 90's, sunny and very humid. Not the kind of weather a person wishes for when building a house. We finished about 2/3's of the metal roof installation when the hot weather hit. Since then we've been working on installing windows and inside work such as partition building.
The well installation was also completed - yahoo!
Cheryl and Brian have also been busy applying two coats of tung oil to all our beautiful wood. The wood has a golden glow from their hard work.
The chimney people came and installed two Metalbestos chimneys. One is for our high efficiency wood stove and the other is for a wood cookstove. We'll be warm and fed even if the power goes out.
Our friend Bob came over to bail us out on the metal rood installation. Has a quite a bit of experience installing metal and showed. Here Bob and Brian are putting up the first two pieces. They are the most critical as they establish the "squareness" of the rest of the installation. It is difficult to locate these panels square to the house since there little in the way of reference points. Bob is a careful worker and he did a great job getting the roof on the right track.
I was especially impressed by how comfortable these two guys are the roof. No safety harnesses - just furring strips to keep them from sliding off. It's a 9/12 roof and I've been up there a couple times. Not that easy to stay on!
Here I am cutting the metal roof. I'm using an abrasive cutting wheel in my old circular saw to do this job. With sparks flying all over the place, it's not the most fun job. But like many parts of home building, ya just have to do it keep doing it until its done.
Cheryl is busy applying tung oil to all the wood in the house. It looks so nice! And it has a fine, fresh citrus scent.
She always seems to smiling, no matter how mundane the job.
The chimney folks came and cut two big holes in my beautiful roof. Kind of hard to run a woodstove without a chimney though. They did a nice job installing the stacks.
Unfortunately Brian and I had the unenviable task of installing metal roof and flashing around these stacks. We finally finished yesterday. If we'd know how hard it would be we probably would have never done it. Kind of ridiculous thing to say though since the this part had to get done to have roof.
Brian and I installing the first roofing panel over a stack. Every part of this job was hard!
View when you walk in the front door. This is pretty close to the finished lo0k of the house. We decided to go vertical with the wood on the stairway to emphasize height. We are very pleased with the look. It is already very homey.
A view of our bedroom. The wall on the left will have multiple small shelves installed for storing food preserves. We plan on utilizing every bit of space in our new house to store food. There is not much storage space so creativity is a vital ingredient.
