Happy Memorial Day!! Week 5 Recap

Early in the week, the Commonwealth crew created the new back wall as you can see below. You can make out the holes for the windows and the fireplace.

Here's the side view.And the rear view.



Next came the new roof.

You can see, why they had to change the window style in that upstairs room, the roofline is covering the where the bottom of the old window.

Rear view with roof.

Detail of the roof before the plywood went on it.

We signed a change order to have all of our existing sideing replaced with Hardi-plank (a concrete based siding material, hence it's considered 'green'). We're going with a buttercream color, and a slightly darker trim color. It will save us thousands in painting costs down the road, because it doesn't need painting. Our last painting job cost nearly $5K...so this option seemed really attractive.

Side view of the new roof.

This was taken last Thursday. They finished the roof on Friday and completed the left exterior side wall. Here you can almost see where the fireplace will be on the back wall, it will be surrounded by openable awning style windows. So the fireplace will appear to 'float' in space.

Below, this wall will be a solid wall. we decided to go with the Hardi-plank rather than brick. This wall is invisible from the street, and invisible to our neighbors as well, also, we need wall-space for art and what-not, our Wallunit, that gave us such pains to move will go along this wall.

Closeup of the rear wall.

On, Tuesday they will begin to demolish the brick exterior wall. The Commonwealth team have created a temporary wall on the inside that will, hopefully, keep a majority of the dust and debris outside where it belongs.

Happy Memorial Day all. Have a safe one and don't eat too much potatoe salad!

S'all for now,

CC