Ready and waiting...

In these pictures you can see piles of shingles on the roof. The skylight curbs are finished and insulated; the window wells are completed now, and the roofers are a little behind because of some heavy rain earlier this week. Maybe they'll come tomorrow? Maybe next week? You may also be able to make out that the small roof overhang over the doors to the (not) deck has been rebuilt and slightly extended. 

As soon as the roof shingles and windows are in place, things will probably move quickly inside! (Windows will be nice. As it gets cooler, we are noticing the R-value of poly sheets in our room isn't quite as good as our window was!) The major event after that (in terms of disruption to family particularly) will be taking out the family room wall next to the addition. This will mean emptying the family room, which will mean moving the computer desk, which may mean I may not easily be able to post updates for a while after that. We'll see how the logistics work out.

The other picture shows another "while-we're-at-it". We haven't had a good piano light, and the lowered soffit over the piano nook seemed to lend itself to the idea of pot lights, so we had a pair installed there! They are (literally) brilliant.

Windows - up and down!

A lot of the work in the past two weeks has been positioning and building curbs for skylights, and finishing the window wells - so no roof shingles yet!

These window wells are built to last with heavy duty braces attached to the concrete walls!

The temptation with renovations is to add things "While we're at it...". I have tried to resist many of these, but truthfully, some of them just make sense! One of these while-we're-at-its was to add a variation on skylights called solar tubes or light tubes in a couple of dark corridors and one bathroom that has no windows. The bathroom in the accompanying picture has no windows, and the lights are off - that's solar tube light you see coming in through that circle in the ceiling!

Roof boards

The work this week consisted mainly of getting the fascia (boards at the bottom of the trusses) and roof sheeting in place. You can also see the dark clouds that have dumped occasional cold rain downpours on the work and workers!

Suddenly it is VERY dark in the family room, which has become an interior room. We will add a window on the north side of the family room (the side of the house on the left in these pictures), and next week, they will cut the openings for skylights in the new roof - so hopefully that will help.

Here is an interior photo also - to the left is the doorway into Timothy's new room, a closet opening in the middle, and the doorway into the new bathroom on the right. Not exactly inhabitable yet, but I really love the look of a building's rooms at this stage - don't know why!