This weekend Ryan and his Dad spent most of the weekend closing up and putting a roof on the first dormer! It was a lot of work but it’s pretty close to done now (obviously we are waiting on windows to arrive and we have to buy siding too which I think I found the matching kind so we may be good there now too).
So the soffit was closed up, the roof was taped, the valley was flashed and the new roof is on and is VERY close to matching the old!
Dormer has a roofAnother view
Now we need 2 more weekends and some evening time to do another one which will hopefully go a little faster the second time around we think.
So far Tuesday and Wednesday night we’ve been at the house so Ryan and his dad could work. Mark got the chimney finished up – I think it needs one last cap piece to cover the center but otherwise it’s finished… it looks awesome!
Check out that fanciness!
I don’t have an updated picture of the dormer because they work until well after dark. This is a picture from Monday I think so it shows the roof was started…
As of last night the roof is closed up but not yet taped. That front triangle is still open. So this weekend the plan is to finish this dormer up completely (get it taped up, closed up), frame out that window in the front etc. We’ll wait until a future weekend before starting the next one!
We officially have internet at the new house too… Go Exede!
Check out that sharp looking dish
It’s been a long weekend/week, I hope/think we are taking tonight off and we’ll probably be back to the house Friday night and all weekend. Tonight and tomorrow I need to work on Halloween costumes!
This weekend started out with Friday night – Ryan’s dad came over after work and continued work on the chimney! It’s very close to done now and looks great with diamonds along the top!
On Saturday we had to go pick up our boat in the morning and got to the house around noon. Ryan started on the first dormer right away, first finding center and cutting a hole in the roof! Figures it started to hail shortly after that! We had some cold weather for a weekend with a big hole in the roof!
Ryan’s dad helped all weekend and by the end of Saturday they had the hole all cut and the window all built and put up. They had started the flashing (putting it under the shingles) until it was too dark to continue. Sunday was an earlier start and they got the side walls up and closed in, then the roof put on. The roof still needs to be covered and the soffit has to be finished. They aren’t going to cut the window hole out until we get our windows. I left early with the kids Sunday so the only picture I have is in progress but I’ll share what I have. They covered it all up with a tarp and hopefully some night this week we can get over to work on it a bit. It gets dark so early it’s tough.
Next weekend for sure Ryan will finish that one up and I assume start on the next.
A good view of hte size of the dormer. This was when I was leaving.From the inside as they had started the roofWhen I showed up sunday morning, flashing was done and the first side wall was about to go up!
I got some burning of brush done in our new pit, the girls helped out once quiet/nap time was over. It was cold though so I got about 1/3 of one pile done before taking the kids back in. The house was so cold even with heat on (hello hole in the roof) so the baby was not too happy on Sunday 🙂 She also doesn’t like running around doing errands and we had to do that a bit.
Here’s hoping for warmer weather next weekend – it sure was cold this morning with ice everywhere!
On Sunday Ryan built us a fire pit in the back yard – down near the lake. The weather is exactly perfect for it and we’ll be able to burn our leaves and brush this fall. It’s in a flat spot too so we can sit around it for an evening fire when we want!
On Monday Ryan and his dad had the day off so they started working on rebuilding the chimney! What a beautiful job they did! It looks so nice and once we get a new fireplace insert we can have indoor fires this winter too!
We also got the windows all ordered for the house, they will take at least 4 weeks so we won’t get them all installed this fall but hopefully some of the upstairs ones will get put in so we can do the indoor renovations upstairs over the winter!
We are working on a heating/cooling plan, Ryan’s cousin is going to do that for us. We are moving away from geothermal as an option after pricing it out and seeing the return on investment in the range of 30 years – which is how long before you have to replace portions of the system – not worth it 🙁 But we have a few other options and once we make some decisions we will share!
This past weekend Ryan replaced the rotted sill plate under the front door and finished securing the smaller beam in the basement! Jacking up work is done!
New sill plate piece
On Sunday with the help of Ryan’s dad they got the rest of the demo done in preparation for putting in dormers. I had to unwire/rewire a bit and we will need to do cleanup (dumpster) eventually but for now we are ready for dormers as soon as we get good weather on a weekend!
Smaller bedroom – ready for a dormermaster bedroom ready for a dormer
We were hoping for no rain this weekend (3 day weekend) but that’s not going to work out so we’ll have to work on another project this weekend instead and hope the weekend after is better.
