Pics

Been a while since I took some pics, and since I was out getting car maintenance done, I dropped by the house early to take some...

The exterior is tar-papered and netted for stucco...

(it's amazing to see all the scaffolding)



As we move around the north side of the house...

the amount of tar paper lessens...



until we get to the west side...

wall to wall tar paper...


Inside, it's amazing to see the wiring:

here, we see all the wiring coming in through the dining room ceiling from the power panel...

And the wiring is throughout the kitchen

A DOOR!

installed. finally.
(the second door, for the master bedroom, is missing... must be on order... hopefully, it will come in tomorrow with the front door)

The washer hook-up is ready.


And the fire sprinklers are in.

They will be concealed in the ceiling in spring-loaded casings with soldered-on facings. The solder melts at a fairly low temperature, then when the spring is released so is the water... pretty damn cool. This one is in Dad's room...

Here, the master bedroom closet is the staging area for the network cabling before it goes upstairs into the "entertainment hub"... Cable for both satellite, cable TV/Modem, and CAT6... suh-weeeeeeeeeeeeeet!


As I head upstairs, I can see the water heater hook-up piping ready to go...


Windows fill the family room:


Just like the dining room directly below does for the first floor, Jack's room's ceiling carries much of the second floor's electrical wiring from the power panel...


Jack's (and Kyle's) east window(s) is finally in and installed!


The boys' frosted shower window is also installed.


Kyle's (and Jack's) built-in can lights for the built-in desk are ready to go:


As are the supplies in the garage for the drywalling to begin:

(Notice: all the dirt in the garage is gone!)

Insulation...

and drywall

await installation.

And all the trash from this next phase has a newly emptied dumpster (this is number three) to house it:


The house continues to evolve.


These will probably be the last pics for a week... I'm heading out of town again for a conference in Chicago on Saturday... I'll be back a week from today (and while it's possible that I'll take pics to post tomorrow... but I doubt it).

Wonder what it'll look like when I get back...