we have lights in the kitchen!

and we laid the tile subfloor...we are ready for the cabinets, but we still might wait until after the holidays to install them.

insulation

the new gas furnace and heating system is complete


and the air conditioning unit is installed

we passed our rough electrical inspection

here is some of our fancy wiring...

we received the shipment of kitchen cabinets, we might just get them installed before christmas!

oh..and a picture of the roof edge, after the ice dam was chipped away and the snow was shovelled! the ice is building up again, so we will have to do this again.

update...

long overdue post, i know...but there hasnt really been anything to photograph yet. we are just doing electrical work and we started insulating yesterday.

we had a text book ice dam this week too, very exciting. because there was no insulation in the roof, the 12" of snow that was packed on the roof was melting from below (from the heat of the house) and this causes the melting snow to drip off of the eave. as it drips off of the eave it freezes and not only creates lovely icicles, but the entire length of the roof edge was solid ice--about 3-4" thick! that ice, as it expands, works its way back under the shingles---and as more snow melts, it finds its way inside the house!

we caught the ice dam in time and scott went outside to chip away the ice...so a major problem was diverted. if you have a well insulated roof/ceiling, then you shouldnt get ice dams...so we have started to insulate, now that the wiring is done.

because our blog has been empty lately we joked about posting a daily injury report -nothing major, but we get some pretty nasty boo boos on a daily basis (no photos, just imagine). like puncturing my head on a roofing nail that was sticking through the plywood in the crawlspace...or, repeatedly puncturing the back of my hand on those same damn nails! or how about this one...when working over my head my hand slipped and my thumb whacked against a ceiling joist---no biggie, except that there just happened to be a nail or splinter sticking out of that joist in that very convenient location and it jammed its way under my thumb nail-pretty deep! (eee, that still makes me cringe) and of course, the classic hammering of the fingernails--kind of boring as far as boo boos go, but i got a nice blood blister from one! and did you know, that if you are on a ladder all day and you lean your shins into the next ladder rung for stability...that you get pretty uniform bruises on you shins? i have a 3" horizontal purple and blue band on my legs--about 12" up from my feet!!! nnnice!

time capsule...

i was fishing wire through the wall today...i opened up a small hole at the base of the wall (where the future baseboard will cover) and out popped a small wooden toy traincar!


then a plastic dart and a baby with no head...


and more and more and more....

inspections

rough framing: passed
plumbing: passed
gas: passed
final deck: passed
1992 Camry emissions: failed

The exterior is pretty much finished...just in time! we just need to figure out what to do with the cracked concrete walkway (hopefully we will have a couple of warm days this winter so that we can tackle that project)


we need another warm day so that we can paint the side door;






here is a photo showing the heating/ac ductwork at the 2nd floor;


we are getting our rough plumbing and gas inspected tomorrow...so we hope to have heat soon (we have been working without heat ever since we started this project!)