Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Interior Window Trim, Doors, Cement Driveway, and Gas Hookup

Dad has been hard at work installing the interior window trim. It takes a lot of work, skill, and time.



The doors arrived today. They are solid core, flat (no panels) doors. Most of them will be painted the same color as the interior. Very nice doors.




The one interior store front door (natural light for the stairwell is desired)



Working on cleaning windows and filling nail holes and any small gaps with puddy. Not too hard a job for me.




The big door that will slide open for the master bed. It is suppose to be painted, but I really like the grain of the wood-possible we will just seal it?




Basement casing for the windows.




The driveway is being graded out and setup for an eventual pour (curb cut?). The bottom stairs will be poured at the same time.



Gas hookup. They went under the street instead of cutting into it, so hopefully it cost less than we were quoted.



Decking should arrive soon.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Prep and prime outside of house

Pictures of sealing off, prepping, and spot priming the exterior of the house.












Sunday, August 31, 2008

Window well installation

The window well chiseled-face blocks were installed on Saturday.

Gravel was delivered (5 yards of crushed gravel)





A branch sticking out in the alley (an easement) was snapped by the delivery truck. Nothing we could really do about it. The recent rains had made branches heavy, hanging low.



West side window well leveled and gravel added for base.



Joe and Dad working on the East side.





Work on the West side



Cutting blocks to fit the corners.



Finished East window well.







Finished West window well





Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Yard Rocks

The rocks (rockery?, rockeri?) have been mostly installed the past few days at the house. The design was put together somewhat before hand, and also on the fly by my Dad and the guy(?) - forgot his name.

A terraced design was put into each wall (east and west side of the front property). The stairs to the back yard on the east side were installed (chiseled risers and flat cement stairs).



The area for the main stairs is mapped out between the boulders.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Exterior paintouts and hydronic floors finished

Painted out are three different shades of exterior color.



The "gypcrete" was poured Monday and is dry now.





It is pretty nice. Almost finish quality.