We're on the home stretch now, and things will soon settle down around here. :B
We finally got shingles on the roof last week. I can't believe how well they match the old ones. Not perfect by any means, but certainly not the eye-sore I was afraid we'd end up with. The roof surface in the foreground is covered with 10 year old shingles.
The last doors got installed last week. Still waiting for the fixed pane windows in the gable.
This will be a good place to use my telescope.
I took the two windows out that separated the new room from the rest of the house and turned one into a door. Those windows were so HEAVY (over 100 lbs each) that all I could do was take the trim off the outside, and push them out letting them fall on the floor of the new room. I covered both sides of the glass with sticky vinyl window film to keep them from sending broken glass everywhere. The windows were double-pane, and the seals had failed years ago. Both windows got cracked during the construction anyway.
I put the broken glass in two heavy cardboard boxes. Oddly enough, glass doesn't get any lighter when it's broken into small pieces. :W These boxes are packed full of glass shards. They are double-wall dish barrels that I reinforced with 3-4 more layers of cardboard inside.
After getting the approach to the lower bay re-graded, I checked out how it felt by backing up to the door. The slab is still about 6" higher than the crushed rock, so I can't back it in yet, though.
And then the fixed pane windows got installed yesterday. The carpenters have been working on the trim around them ever since.
This is where the sewer clean-out will be. I decided to not put it in the slab after all, when there will be a ring of dirt around this tree. Less concern when the inevitable spill occurs.
This is how it looks this evening. Tomorrow morning, the upper bay garage doors will be installed, and my concrete guy will start forming up the apron slabs. I didn't realize until just recently that the lower bay garage door is a commercial door, so it's a different install crew that will put it in.
I think by next Friday I'll have all my garage doors, and the painters should be done or very close. I'll let the apron slabs cure about a week before driving on them.
:):)
