We were away on friday but our contractor and one helper came over for the day. They got the molding up on the tower soffit and finished up the painting so above the attic windows is now completely done. The staging was lowered down to the attic windows so today they can trim those out and do panels. It really came out great, I’m very happy with their work!
Today there are only 2 again, as the third guy is taking a long weekend. They want to finish the tower early this week, here’s hoping rain holds off!
It looks like Tuesday they got rained out as well, they finished up the outline of the panels but that was about 3 pieces of wood so not much. Wednesday our contractor came by himself and finished up the upper panels, then primed and painted them. He said Friday he will be there with one guy (holiday week) and they’ll finish it up, add the red moldings and then bring the staging down a level so they can start the middle panels. Hopefully by early next week the tower will be done (dependent on rain forcast).
Looking goodFrom the street
And now it’s long weekend time! I love short work weeks 😉
The crew showed up Monday morning, a little on the later side thinking it would be raining, it held off, until it didn’t! just after lunch the sky opened up and dropped buckets of rain down. The guys scrambled to pick up and get under shelter. It rained for hours after that but they made good progress in the morning.
Hard to see but they got the frieze board up under the soffit, it’s built out farther than the panels, a very nice effect. Then the panels were started between the windows and the top.Another view, very hard to get a good view, plus it was still sprinkling out.
I’m trying out larger pictures, if you click them they should open full size too. I know the pics have been kind of small lately.
The guys are up to 17 days on the job (subtracting rain days). They hope to finish the tower by the end of the week (thursday off, working friday) but it will really depend on rain.
This weekend was a nice relaxing weekend with some grimy demolition work. While Alex napped on Saturday (2 naps) Ryan got the ceiling of the master bathroom, small bathroom and laundry-room upstairs all demolished. During nap one I got the master bathroom ceiling demo all cleaned up (while Ryan did some dump runs). Then during Sunday’s nap I did the cleanup of the rest. There is still a lot of cleanup left, but I bagged up all the plaster and insulation (many many bags that have to be carted down to the truck and taken to the dump still)!. All the lathe is already in the truck or taken to the dump. Vacuuming has begun but will take a while, the insulation clogs up the filter really quickly so I did a quick first pass but have to clean the vacuum still and then start vacuuming the ceiling before doing the rest since it will just fall down anyhow.
Luckily we’ve gotten used to not using this area so we can take our time cleaning it up. It’s closed off from the rest of the upstairs containing the dust/debri which is nice and has back-staircase access.
Next up is framing in the small bathroom’s walls! We’d like to get moving on the small bathroom, well on everything but taking it one thing at a time 🙂
Surprisingly they only missed a half day last week due to rain, although they couldn’t paint with the constant threat of rain. Great progress was made when I came home Friday morning and I’ll just explain through the pictures since I wasn’t here to witness it anyhow 🙂
Scaffolding went all the way up the tower and the crown molding and soffit were stripped down!The attic windows were all installed and the window caps for the second floor windows were installed with copper, all panels around the lower windows are also done (before they put up staging). Primed as well.The bumpout with scaffolding removed. We still have to add the red molding over the lower windows and paint inside some of the center panels.New attic windows really brighten this attic space!And the other side.
I don’t think I have a picture of the end of friday progress, they got the window caps on the attic windows, all the way around with copper. They got the casings and sills for the attic windows all made, cut and primed, ready to be installed. The goal is to get above the attic windows done completely, as well as down to the sill of the attic windows. Get that caulked/primed/painted, add the red molding and then lower the staging down to just one level to do between the two sets of windows. With the long weekend coming up, hopefully the weather holds so they can get this done like they want.
Today there are only 2 again, as the third guy is taking a long weekend. They want to finish the tower early this week, here’s hoping rain holds off!
