Happy New Years! As one can see from the photos and dates of our blog entries, we’re a little behind with our construction updates. We’ll try to catch up with more updates and pictures over the next few weeks!
Week 46 was another busy week at the house. The drywall contractors finished hanging all of the drywall and started mudding and sanding the walls. This is a multi-day process to get the walls nice and smooth. They apply the rough pass of joint compound, let it dry, sand it down, repeat. Joints and corners require multiple passes to have a final finished feel to them.
In the mean time, our tiling contractor has stopped by to create our pre-slopes for our future showers. The shower curbs were previously built by our carpenter, and the durock cement board was placed around the curbs by our drywall contractor. Our tile contractor uses a thinned out concrete mix to create a slope from all four corners towards the drain. Done correctly, this will ensure there won’t be any standing water and everything will drain properly.
Finally, as mentioned in the Wk 43 blog post, our front roof contractor built out the structure for the roof over hang. Early this week he came back to install the roof shingles. Andrea and I went with a reddish brown shingle to mute the contrast between the red-brick, shingle roof, and an eventual patinated copper roof. Over the past two months, our roofing contractor has replicated the details from the old roof and in the middle of the week he brought them on site to install! It took him two days to install and finish the front roof. Its great to see the front of the building really coming together!
IT STARTED ON SAWYER 