Outside work

This month the carpenters have been installing windows, trim under eves, and have befun to wrap the house with a yellow spacing material before applying clapboard siding and cedar shake shingles. The chimney is being built and weatherproofed. The masons have started laying the Old Chester stonework along foundation. The second garage cement work is done, and framing this will start next week. And our well was drilled, and has a very high flow rate, perfect for our geothermal heating system. More retaining walls being built around second garage. First picture shows scaffold on roof to build chimney. Next is cement pouring for garage foundation, and cement floor with machine laid stone walls. Next is window view with yellow wrap, then the foundation stone, and last a mock up showing what a clapboard corner will look like, flared out over the stone foundation.

Inside work

Lots of progress this past month, but most of it inside, where it is more difficult to illustrate with pictures. All of the interior walls are now framed, and the electrical wiring is being installed. The PEX tubing that they use for plumbing instead of the old copper pipe is in, red for hot, blue for cold. All the steel straps are now around the keyed beams. The brickwork for fireplace is in. It will be covered with Vermont stone below and wall board above. Pictures below show lower level framing, lots of electrical wire, plumbing, straps on keyed beams and the fireplace, viewed from the main floor and the loft.