Sunday, October 29, 2017

Installation of Duradek on Deck and Septic System

Duradek is a vinyl covering for the deck. 
It is glued down.
They heat weld the seam.
We are looking at glass railings that are built
without top rails that block your views. 
This is a 1,500 gallon tank. 
Digging the drain field. 
A special filter sand. 
Drain tiles installed. 
Stone being added. 
The digger operator is amazing with precision.

Drywall Makes a Huge Change

Our kitchen. 
 
Our dining/living area. 
Our living room looking toward cupola.  
Guest bedroom/office. 
Guest bathroom. 
Back entrance. 
Under the cupola looking into master bedroom. 
Master bedroom. 
Master bedroom looking towards bathroom. 
Our walk in shower. 
Our laundry area in master bath.  
Wet bar area. 
Recreation room on Joy's level.
Front entrance.
Joy's bedroom. 
Joy's laundry. 


Monday, October 2, 2017

Ready for Drywall

It has taken awhile to get everything ready for drywall.  All the electrical, heating/air-conditioning, plumbing, insulation, building bulkheads, finishing some framing that wasn't completed.
Plumbing and venting for heating and heat recovery ventilators
running along the back of Joy's shower area that we had to frame.
Water supplies and waste piping. 
Electrical wiring. 
Electrical box in the garage. 
Two furnaces, water heater, and water tank.
Now we have electrical power! 
We went with foam insulation. 
Guys applying the foam insulation.  Really good stuff. 
We will be adding blown in insulation
between the floors for sound attenuation.
A gas fireplace installed on each floor. 
The wet bar area. 
Joy's bedroom.  See how they did the sound attenuation.
Joy's laundry area.
Front entrance. 
Back entrance.
Our kitchen. 
Looking to the dining area from kitchen. 
Looking from dining room to living room. 
This will be our feature wall in the living room
that we will cover with the old cottage
red cedar ship lap that we saved. 
Master shower. 
Master bedroom looking west.
 
Master bedroom looking at master bath and laundry. 
Looking at entrance to guest bedroom.  
Guest bathtub and shower. 
Looking at cupola from master bedroom.
 
Looking at cupola from living room. 
Looking towards the dining and kitchen area.  
Drywall being delivered to our floor. Nice butt:)
They piled drywall in all the rooms. 
Guest bedroom and kitchen.
Living/dining areas.
Boom truck used to lift drywall to the floors. 
These guys moved 12,974 sq. ft. equaling
18,035 lbs. of drywall.