The Remodel : August Update

  Exterior framing was going up in Mid-July.

 The Roof is covered with blue tarps because there are no shingles up there.

 Saws just hang around in what used to be my garden spot.  Scraps of lumber, big sheets of OSB. Oriented Strand Board.

 The is the hole outside the fruit room window. The window isn't there, however. It's been removed in preparation for sending the duct-work through that space, then framing in a "door" for the scrawl-space access.

 This is a HUGE 43 foot long Box Truss. That's what the new and old trusses are going to meet at. On? In? It'll go where out former exterior wall was. It's still an IS. The exterior wall to our original house is still there, thought it's stripped down to the studs and insulation and exterior sheeting.

 And there are big, gaping holes in the wall. Like this one (above) that is in the bathroom area.

 Here is the installed box truss. They used a crane to lift it up and over the house, guiding it with ropes on both ends. There were about 5 of them placing it. It's sturdy! There are sturdy posts (4) holding it, too.

 Once the outside wall of the house came down, WOW! Things really opened up. Especially with a totally opened roof above. Not even any trusses, so we are exposed. Very.

 The box truss is 4 boards thick.  Below is Larry L, sawing boards for the spanning trusses that go from the existing peak of our roof to the box truss.

Once the trusses are in place over the addition, you can begin to see just how big this new space is going to BE!!

 Here  is the entry to our front door. Mike has closed off both the kitchen doorways that lead to the rest of the house.  If we need to get to the downstairs, we have to enter the house through the garage (or the new back door). That's a bit inconvenient for me, as I am always going up and down the stairs to the laundry room OR to the fruit room (which is basically my pantry. )  The fruit room, with that huge gaping hole, did heat up quite a bit. Now that the roof is on, there's not direct sunlight hitting the floor of the addition and heating up the basement fruit room OR our upstairs.  Our swamp cooler that is install in our bedroom is also doing a good job of keeping things cool where we live upstairs.

 August 3, they tore out the bathroom floor to access plumbing for the NEW bathroom design. We have decided to add a soaking tub. I think with as arthritic as Mike is, we will use it. If we get one that is a bit larger than the average tiny tub and if it has jets. ;-)

 Today, WINDOWS were installed in the kitchen/dining area, the bathroom AND the bedroom reading nook!

This is a shot of a piece of OSB leaning up against the dumpster out front.  Doug backed into it with is truck and the trailer hitch poked a hole in it.  Doug came by on Saturday and helped Mike a LOT on the roof!  Mike was so appreciative of his help.  Big time. Poor Doug got a bit of heat stroke while doing it, too.  They were on the roof and got a lot of the nit-picky stuff on the South Side taken care of.

Progress this week already!