Painting is done, for now, maybe

Between rain showers and storms.....

We finally finished the painting the exterior. At least from my perspective. Marlys though will not consider it done until the trim has been painted green. At least we have a coat of paint on the house and the gray of the Hardiplank primer is gone.

David also completed the prow with an interesting detail. I keep thinking that we should add a dragonshead carving similar to that seen on the front of a Viking longboat and we will have a Norwegian Lodge (i.e. 13th Warrior).

The deck is not quite done. David is finishing up the stairs and the versa lams need to be faced in cedar.

During the painting on Saturday, Dusty wanting to be part of the action, literally left his paint footprints all over on the TREX. This will be another clean up job.

I have decided (though direct observation of my work) that I am really not very good at painting. We may need to hire professionals for the interior, once I prime everything (I may not be good at it, but using the sprayer is cool).

The mechanical work (plumbing, heating, electric) should be completed tomorrow. Scott Rice will then call for the state electrical rough-in inspection. Once completed, I will call for the county framing inspection. If we get both of these completed this week we will be doing well. Where we are located, inspectors only come out on certain days (Friday's not being one of them).

The electrical rough-in is going well, but if there is one area we did not put enough thought into it is electrical and lighting. We have been lucky that Scott and Norma have helped us in making decisions, we probably could have saved everyone time if WE had spent more time on it in the design stage. Also having the specs on all of the major appliances available the first day would have saved time.

This house has a lot of recessed lighting.

We have also situated the headend for the satellite dishes in the office closet. There will be four RG6 cables for TV and 2 for Internet coming in for connection through multiswitches and a WiFi router. Distribution to the rest of the house will be via RG6 Coax.

If we get the necessary inspections out of the way this week. We will start insulation. Which needs another inspection when completed.

I plan on taking pictures of all of the walls before they are insulated, so that if there is a question on where something is in the future, we will have a record. This was a great suggestion from Neal.

We will be taking Derek to school on Thursday. This will be a bittersweet event, in that Derek is growing up and even though we don't see him much now with all of his activities, knowing that we won't see him is a very different matter.

We have a number of items to get scheduled/bought this week:

• GET A SHEETROCKER
• Buy the ironing board and install it
• Install remaining stairposts
• Sand and finish interior doors
• Paint exterior doors green
• Re-order the correct tub faucet for the master bedroom