Another productive weekend

Our subcontractors had a slow couple of days this past week but we managed to make a lot of progress on Saturday and Sunday...

The big news is that the shingles are on the roof....

On Saturday, Jeff's brother Scott finished installing the door frames and the sliding door into the master bathoom.

The final 2 soffits have been installed....

The light grate on the 3 floor stair landing has been installed.....

The power and control lines to the skylights have been pulled....

The power line to the window solar screens have been installed....

The house is approximately 80% covered with white foam, stucco wire will start late this week...

The piping to the solar water heater is almost done...the plumber has had a few problems with his soldering welds....

We drove to IKEA in Emeryville on Sunday night to pick up more of the cabinets and closet units for the new house....Most of it will be shipped direct from their warehouse..

The insulation starts on Monday this week and should be done by Thursday....We are having 5 Star Insulation install soy based polyurethane foam in the ceiling of the 3rd floor and cellulose insulation (recycled newspapers impregnated with Borate) sprayed into the exterior wall cavities.... Check it out here: http://www.5starperinsul.com/index.htm

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Fridge is in

The kitchen cabinet bases are all installed, the only appliance we have placed is the fridge. The others will go in over the next week or so....you can see the Eucalyptus veneer on our cabinets....yes, they are from IKEA.....it has been a lot of work for Jeff to put them together, but they were significantly less expensive than the other choices we looked at.

3rd Floor bathroom progress

One of the cool things about the house is that when taking a shower in the 3rd floor bathroom, ones head will be in the skylight dome....Do they issue tickets for flashing a helicopter? You can also see that the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) guys started last week. They started to pull duct work up to the air exchanger and fan on the 3rd floor.... All 4 of the toilets in the house are wall mounted Geberit low flow toilets with dual flush mode. You can see the `carrier' for the toilet in the middle of this pic. The tank for the toilet is hidden in the wall cavity. We bought almost all of our plumbing fixtures online. The sinks and toilets were purchased from Ira Wood & Sons in Kentucky. They have an excellent website for comparing products: http://store.yahoo.com/irawoodinc/tewamotosy.html

Out of the gutter and into the cold..

Although the stucco guys completed their job a couple of weeks ago, some minor cracks developed in 3 areas and they have come back to patch them up..... Having the scaffold up for the stucco guys allowed our gutter guy to hang the final piece.... On Wednesday of this week the guys from Airsmiths installed the air conditioning condenser...If you're wondering if that is the American Standard Allegiance 14 Super Efficiency Condenser, you would be right! It is made in Texas in the same factory that Trane air conditioners are made at. http://www.americanstandardair.com/Products.asp?Section=homeOwners&ProductID=7&CategoryID=16&SuperCategoryID=1

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