Framing has continued over the last week. They’re far enough along that there are no longer any braces on walls. Everything is tied into the steel framework and they’ve started adding sheathing on the outside. It’s at a point where it seems much closer to a house than just a bunch of 2x4s that you can see through.
They still have work to do where the old roof meets the new roof and they need to build out the soffits on the new roof. Apparently today they’ll be strapping and installing hurricane clips. The soffit work will start next week.
In a surprise, when we went by last night, they had removed the three remaining original windows and had installed one of the new windows in the guest bedroom. The darker color looks so much better than the white ones with the brick on the house. They also enlarged the other window opening on the front of the house (in the office) and we really like how much a different that makes in that room. They plan to install the other two windows on the front of the house, but have to wait for all the others until after framing inspections and they install the tyvek stuff.
The new window in the guest bedroom and the larger opening in the office.
View of the larger patio int eh back yard. The large opening on left will be a glass garage door from workshop out to the patio. The opening in the middle will be a standard exterior door into the workshop. The large opening on the right will be an 8’x8’ patio door from the primary bedroom out to the patio.
This is the smaller patio in the back yard. The opening will be the door from the utility room out to the patio.
New of the primary bedroom from patio door. The smaller room on back left is the closet. The opening in the middle goes to the primary bathroom.
A picture of the larger patio taken from the corner. Gives a better view of what roofline in there will look like. We’ll have a ceiling fan and a couple of roof mounted gas heaters.
View of living, dining, kitchen space taken from corner in kitchen. You can see where the new foundation meets the old foundation just to the right of the pile of sheathing covered by the plastic in the middle.