Just two short years after we got the original quote, we have our new roof. Last week Wednesday the crew showed up and got to work. It took three days, but the whole thing is done. It was windy all weekend, so I haven’t gotten up on a ladder to see for myself, but we can see the porch and the the bay window peak from inside and they look good. Nothing blew off the roof in the wind, and everything inside stayed dry, so I’m calling that a win. We’ve been emptying a bucket every time it rained ever since I cut the hole in the roof for the kitchen exhaust.
On the downside, the old shingles falling during demo ripped up our house wrap and it was flapping all Saturday night so bad we couldn’t sleep. I got it taped down yesterday after things dried out a bit. We’d really like to get the new house wrap, exterior insulation, and siding, but we’re waiting on the electrician to put in the exterior boxes. He’s in turn waiting on permit, permit is waiting on our architect, who is waiting on the permit expeditor, who is waiting on the architect.
The concrete guy got a dumpster dropped off in the back yard today to clear out some of the debris and get the footings poured. That may be as soon as tomorrow. I just need to make sure he actually puts in the rebar.
I never heard back from the radiant company, so rather than chase them down I went ahead and figured out everything we need in the mechanical room to finish the system and got that on order. It’ll be a bit of a project to reconfigure the system for the additional loops, but I think I’ve worked out everything I need to do it. At this point the only thing left to buy for the entire radiant system is some odds and ends for the radiators in the attic.
The other big activity this weekend was moving the chest freezer into the basement. It’s been on the first floor ever since we moved down here, but we’ve got to get everything cleared out upstairs. Sarah and the kids got everything emptied out into coolers and laundry baskets, then I chipped the ice out, put it on the hand truck, and with Sarah’s help we got it into the basement.
Just like I did for the refrigerator, we put it up on a block of wood (part of the old wood beam that we replaced) so that it can sit on top of the curb against the outside wall. Even with packing our storage unit to the top, our basement shelves are piled high at this point. We’re running out of room everywhere; clearly we have too much stuff. I need to run some more things to storage and hopefully find a spot for it all.
We also got our sample door for our kitchen cabinets. We’re pretty excited about it. The whole world seems to have gone to white, painted, and/or modern kitchens, but we’re sticking with traditional stained cabinets. I’m tempted to switch to a simpler profile and save some money, but I’m pretty sure we’ll wind up going with this.
