The Gutterman Roofing crew came, worked like maniacs, finished replaced our roof and left, all on Tuesday!!! They installed a new venting system, on the tip top of the roof, you can sort of see in the shot below. When Commonwealth re-does the siding, at the end of the project, they will install soffit vents on the eaves (our 1955 construction pre-dates those). Supposedly the cooler air is supposed to enter the soffit vents, and force the hotter air out the roof vent. Isn't that interesting.
Steve told Guttermen crew not to worry about the siding, because it was being replaced anyway. That satellite dish isn't functional, I think we should ask them to remove it. The did a great job with the new flashing next to the chimney.
Here's a wider view of the garage roof and the chimney.
This is on the front of the house at the garage, more of the nice flashing job.
Steve framed in the windows on Wednesday, while Mike-the-drywall guy was kicking up a cloud of dust inside.
Heres the finished frames on the window wall. Didn't he do an awesome job! It's all ready for the new Hardi-plank and the fireplace to be installed.
Here's the exterior of the side. He framed these windows as well as the new door. Also notice the eaves were framed in. Steve and Tim are itching to get the deck completed, so they don't have to use that flippin' ramp anymore.
In the garage/kitchen, here's our new cabinetry that came in on Tuesday. It can't be installed until the floors are in, which come next week. We understand that there will be at least 2 days that we won't be able to walk on them, which will be problematic, since we have to walk on them to go upstairs. We'll see what we have to do. Hey, what's that on the far left!??
Why, those are the windows from the old kitchen that M said he'd donate to Habitat for Humanity! What are they doing there??? Hmmm.
Why, those are the windows from the old kitchen that M said he'd donate to Habitat for Humanity! What are they doing there??? Hmmm. They're stuck there until the cabinets are gone, but if there are any ATS folks reading these pages gently remind him of this noble pledge. ;-)
Is this a disaster area or what??? Try cooking in it every night!
S'all I got for today.
S'all I got for today.Later,
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I'll be living in a mostly empty house next week; if you need a place to crash for a day or two, I could host the PJ party ;-)
ReplyDeleteCheryl, we may take you up on that. We're not supposed to step on the floors for 12 hours after they apply a coat of poly-whatever, which is problematic, because we, uh, have to go upstairs. I'll talk to M, and we can chat on Sunday at church.
ReplyDeleteYou DEFINITELY don't want to walk on the refinished floors until they say you can. It will leave footprints. That happened at our house in Arlington when the floors were refinished, and one of the 'apprentices' accidentally walked on them. They had to be RE-DONE.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I know, and it also an area that can't be camoflaged with furniture, if it had a flaw. FlipFlop prints just would NOT do!
ReplyDeleteWow! What progress. It sounds like things are moving right along!
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