Siding

Siding has been going up this past week along with some final rough ins.  Unfortunately the door supply guys got the order mixed up and only got 2 of the 4 exterior doors correct so they could not finish putting up the siding in the back.  No, the house is not going to be yellow, that is just the color of the primer of the this HardiePlank siding.

We chose to go with the primed only siding and not the factory painted based on price and the seams tend to show up a lot more on the factory painted system.  

We are thinking that we should add a transom above the front door to help give some extra height to match the windows to the right.  its only $500 right? Seems like everything is just another $500.  Oh well I think this one is worth it.

Master Suite Side

Hopefully we will get the back door soon so the siding contractor and finish up.  Also the contractor has made some major headway into the detached garage.  maybe we can get the siding completed on the back side of the house along with doing the detached garage.

Did you noticed we are missing 2 feet on the bottom of the house wrap?, guess someone needed more than we did.  Seriously? Someone just cut 2 feet off the bottom of a roll we had stored in the house garage so now we are 2ft short of finishing the detached garage.  The siding contractor, Wendell Siding has said they will let us have some house wrap to finish up.

Well there must have been some mis-communication between me and contractor, we did not quite leave enough room for the fireplace we had picked out to fit.  Of all the things I doubled checked that one escaped me.  It has not been a big deal, they do make a small version of the fireplace we wanted.  

I have pulling Cat 6 and Co-axial cable for the network and the TV distribution.  I leaned there is an art to determining the best route to pull cables especially with all the code requirements of were you can and cannot cut openings in beams.  

Lucky, Sandy the hurricane is not beating on us like those poor people up north so hopefully we can get the roof on this thing later this week.  Also the fireplace is suppose to go in so the HVAC contractor and the electrician can finish up.  

I am going to attempt to install the rough in for our central vacuum system, that should be interesting.  I will be trying to install three floor sweeps and two hose outlets. Good thing I have a few days of vacation and my floating holiday.