The ROOF, the ROOF, the ROOF is on FIRE!!

TPO roofing--- up up and away!!!! For those of you who want to know what the heck TPO is (like me) check out these links:

http://www.facilitiesnet.com/BOM/Jul01/jul01envelope.shtml

http://www.astm.org/SNEWS/AUGUST_2003/obeoli_aug03.html

http://www.rsimag.com/rsi/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=9125

http://www.dougloudenback.com/hornets/TorontoArena.htm
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Waxed Floor too

We drove by today and saw the guys out there waxing (or acrylic-ing) the new stained floor. No pics.

Our stained floor

Floor Staining

We went by the house last night but couldn't get even close to our street, let alone our house! I don't know how the Builder and his crew are doing it. So, we finally got to drop by this morning (beautiful morning by the way) and check out the 3 different staining options we have for our floor (well, at least the three we wanted to see). The picture shows the three options. We opted for the one on the far right (50/50 black/diluted). The floors were washed today and already stained! We'll check it out (if we dare try again) this evening. We've also got a picture of both the front and back door openings framed for the lights and the doors

More on the home front

We have some concrete stain swatches waiting for us to look at in the utility closet (which one will we pick?), Builder is trying to have the new siding (hardi stuff) delivered today, they've reframed the front and back doors, and they're figuring out what they need to fix (switch the window in the first room, get an extra sliding door, etc). More pictures to come tonight.

Closer look at the windows

The street was clear today at 5:45pm (not sure if the city is done, or if it was just that they decided to leave early on a Friday evening). We got to look around the house again and take some good pics. We noticed that the window guys put one window in the wrong place (a fixed window in the first room where an egress window should be), and that they're missing one sliding door and one small rectangular master bath window. We'll get it all straightened out.

Most likely our concrete guy (or girl)

http://texasconcreteguy.com/

I'm pretty sure it's a guy since it's on his web address as texas concrete GUY dot com.

More Windows

They ordered wrong (or received the wrong stuff) so we're missing one sliding door and the egress windows (coming later), as well as a long skinny window as an extra. I'm sure Builder will straighten it all out. Good news is that the city may be off the street pretty soon.

Windows

They windows and doors have been delivered, and I saw the workers putting the first window in this morning at 9am! Can you see it, can you?

It's hard to get too close because the street is still blocked off.

Tyvek Please

And just in time- it started raining for about 10 minutes today after we took these pictures! Hope it stays dry out there! I still didn't see any windows when I drove by at lunch time. Maybe soon. Maybe Builder told them to wait too.

Changes as of 1pm today

We noticed that the rest of the OSB was put up in the back and the carport wood was finished off at the front. We didn't see any windows delivered (how could they even find a place to park anywhere near our house? The city is still taking up a lot of space). We could barely even see our house as you can see in the picture I took today.

Front of the house

Sunday house visit

More OSB on the walls!! It's starting to feel like a house now!!
Pic1-Guest Room
Pic2-Guest Bath
Pic3-Boys' Room
Pic4-Master Room
Pic5-Back/Side
Pic6-Living Room
Pic7-Master Bath

Great Meeting today- Very informative!

We met with Builder today (it really helped that we didn't have our Little Builders with us! Thanks T for babysitting!!). We went over so many things, cleared up so many questions, and got so much information. It's great that we got to meet today because there were some miscommunication on the siding (hardiplank vs. hardiboard, etc) and we were able to detail more of the exposed duct work out, get visuals in our heads about the placement of certain things, and determine how things are going to be set up. I didn't take too many pictures because not too much has changed (except the major dirt storms on our street, holes, piles of dirt, and rocks by the city). We're thinking 2 or 3 more weeks and the city will be off of our street and onto the next one. Keeping our fingers crossed. Oh- and here's a picture of what our insulation might look like. Seems pretty effective.

View from the back

Here's a pic I took from the back "alley" today. I couldn't get to the front of the house because the street was closed again and there was a dust storm the size of Nevada down there. The second picture is the view of our house from the daycare center.

Journal entry about OSB

Info from Builder today: The framers/workers accidentally used the regular OSB board on the roof instead of using the silver insulated OSB boards. Now Builder has to send the insulated boards back and replace them with the regular boards so they can finish up the sides of the house. This should save us money, BUT we are hoping it doesn't hurt us in terms of insulation. We meet with the builder tomorrow. I've uploaded a stock photo of OSB so I can remember what the heck I'm talking about.

More cool stuff!!

And the city is back on the block tearing up the entire street, making it so the neighbors can't even get to their houses unless by foot. It's probably good we're not having to park on the street daily at this point! Poor guys with their big trucks and hefty lumber working on our house. At least the city is giving them a break and letting them in!!

We ate at Primizie tonight (see links to the right) and YUMMMMMM!!!! I think they beat Mandola's at the Triangle. I'm definitely going back again and again and again!! They were great to the kids too... definite plus!!

And we have rain

Hopefully this huge downpour of rain downtown will mean nice, cool days ahead. Probably no changes on the lot today either.

Nothing new- just more pics

We didn't notice anything new this evening when driving by the lot. Here are more pics from Saturday.

Carport is going up, ceiling is partly done

We actually got out of the car and walked around the house today. Very open and tall!! Getting pretty real now!! Hopefully it won't be much longer!! Our payments are getting larger, our hopes are getting higher, and our pants are getting antsy!

Pictures from Thursday

More framing!! You can see the inside rooms are being framed, the windows and doors are framed, and the house is starting to look like a house! We're excited to see what it looks like today when we drive by! We'll post more pics then!

More framing

The rooms were defined when we went by this evening... and the windows and doors were more framed as well. You can't see much from this picture- which was taken at noonish today. The house is starting to look MUCH bigger than it did with just the slab!!

5pm today

It's looking good!!

Walls!! Woo HOO!!!

Builder Dad drove by today at noon and saw some progress! Yippee Yahoo!!!

Muddy wood

Went by on Labor Day (Sept. 3) and still no framers out there working. It hadn't rained until about 4pm, so we know they must still be on another job and not ready to start ours. Maybe today? Maybe not? The doppler looks horrible for the entire day today... probably all week. Ahhhh... the joys of building!