The siding is being hung now. It's starting to look more like my house now. :B
I really like this this type of siding. It's real wood, it's real thick, and it's not carried in most home centers around here so it's not used much. I like the rough-cut surface, and it smells good when it's raw like this. :W
It's a shame we have to paint it to match the rest of the house.
They had to hold off some of the sheets until the rest of the doors and windows were delivered, which happened yesterday.
The electricians got the garage powered up this week. This is inside the storage room that I park my tractor in. It's an area below a porch that a previous owner closed in, and in the process built a wall between the electric meter and the panel housing the main breakers for the house. The panel was in the small unpainted area on the left. The electricians felt the old panel wasn't rated to handle the added load of the new circuits in the garage, so it was replaced with this bigger panel. The wires going into the wall to the breaker panel inside the house weren't long enough to reach inside the new panel, so the box on the left was used to house some splices.
The wires to the new garage are in the conduit at the top of the wall.
The conduit runs down the wall to the new garage, where it penetrates the back wall and then goes into the ceiling cavity.
Because of a pre-existing bump-out directly above the area where the conduit is going though the wall, it wasn't possible to bring the wires directly into the ceiling cavity of the garage, so we had to do this. That 6x6 is supporting one end of the bump-out now, so I'll be able to remove the one you can see in the previous picture.
I'll probably have to do something similar to get these two old circuits up into the ceiling as well. I prefer this to the other options we discussed. Just one of the "issues" to be dealt with from raising the ceiling height.
A sub-panel was set in the garage. I chose this spot because I'll never want to put anything in front of it since it's at the top of the stairs to the lower bay.
And we finally have power to the lights and receptacles.
I like the way they blended these two roof surfaces together. It creates a little sheltered area above the doors that will go here,
The shingles were delivered today, so they should get started Monday putting them on.
They finished the siding, trim, soffits, and fascias,on this end today, and got the gable vent installed.
The windows and one of the sliding doors were installed today in the new living area over the upper bay.
There's still a four-panel French door to be installed on the other side. The decks outside the doors will be rebuilt later.
That's it for now!
:):)
