Another Item Finished

After a slight delivery delay, the last of our windows arrived Saturday. These 8 windows had to be custom made to fit what the carpenter framed in - which changed about 3 times during the whole framing process. But the finished wall looks fantastic! Can't wait to see what it will all look like with the siding on.......

Our plumber is also working very quickly as he is leaving Bamfield soon to return to Alberta to work on the pipe lines. He's had to do a lot of corrections to the previous plumbing job (I'm mighty disappointed in what Joe did for us.....hot water routed to outside taps, drains in wrong spots, not enough space allowed for laundry facilities, island plumbing measured off wrong wall........sloppy work - burn marks on the framing where he welded.......) So, needless to say, I'm really glad that Dwyane (or Wheels) has the skills to do this for us.

This is the first floor tub installed. Wheels wants to put in the toilet today, so I've got to make sure the ones we've got are cleaned out & haven't sustained any damage. They are salvaged from a lodge renovation & have been sitting on my lawn all summer.

Today is clean house day again. The concept of picking up after themselves just doesn't occur to our crew. I understand the mess made in building - but please pick up your personal garbage & put it in a bucket or garbage bag. We have one door left to put in & I know raccoons have been walking through the house. As long as they don't leave deposits, all they do is rummage through lunch wrapers......At least the house is dry, so when I bag up all the junk, it won't weigh a tonne.


This was sunrise on Saturday.




This was Phil's Halloween costume last night for one of the most popular, well-attended, rocking dances in Bamfield. He shaved off the beard..........

Back to Work

We had yet another storm Sunday thru Monday (storm #4??) & Tuesday has been a wonderfully sunny & hot (!!) day. The boys are working quickly on the decks - yes, we have 2 decks - and while the sun is out, they want to work outside. Which is good - our electrician came in today to start putting in plugs & switches, etc. All these decisions that we have to make......as long as we don't start second guessing ourselves, I think we'll get through this. HA!

You can just make out that the deck wraps around the side of the house towards the back door on the second floor. We have extended the deck on the first floor to also wrap around side the house to the side door. The open window on the second floor will be glass blocks - wait til you see these ones! They are super-cool!


We are putting up pine soffits - under the roof overhangs & they are stained (by Phil & Michelle) in Comfort Morn. Don't know who gets to name colours, but I could do much better than that!! Anyway, the cedar fascia is also stained the same colour & we will 'match' the house up behind us on the hill. We only received 1/3rd of the pine & the rest should be making it's way here by the weekend.....


Our shower on the second floor is now installed. We have 2 shower heads with 2 separate controls & we got the plumber (a different one than we started off with) to put the shower head up high - at least 8 inches above the edge of the shower. Who wants to stand in a shower & have it blast you right in the face??


This is a bad shot of Brian, our electrician. I've got to get better at taking sneaky shots.....His other career is with the Canadian Coast Guard station here in town & also a fishing lodge down the harbour. Busy guy......But he's got a good reputation with the building inspector & I doubt we'll have mystery switches. The house we currently rent has about 4 or 5 switches that do nothing but 'change the weather' - & our landlord is also another electrician.......

Thanks to those of you who've dared to vote on a weathervane......If any of you are artistic at all, you can always send me a drawing of your interpretation of a weathervane. Who knows, we might use that for a custom one.......

The Roof is Finished!!

After the storm on Tuesday (the 9th), the boys came back to finish the roof on Wednesday (the 10th). Only 1 shingle blew off the night before, so it didn't take them long to get the rest finished.

This is our roof - the shingles are called 'Sunset Cedar' & they almost look like a cedar shake roof. We've got lots of fun names for the colours we are using.

The stain we are using on the cedar fascia & window trim is called 'Comfort Morn' - it's sort of a yellowish-carmel.

The hardi-plank that will hopefully go on this week is called 'Mountain Sage' - which is a smoky green colour (not olive, not emerald....you'll have to wait for the photos).

We ended the week with 2 glorious sunny days, which helped seal down the roof. I got into the house & did a massive clean-up & moved a few things around so that the floors would dry out. Phil & I stained as much of the cedar trim as possible - until we ran out of stain......We also did some clean-up outside around the house. I finished planting some bulbs in the lily garden & others into the white garden. Those should be fine now for a few years until I will need to get back into them & divide the bulbs. It feels good to have a bit of landscaping finished before the house & before the winter truly arrives. I hope that we will get some grass seed out around the house in the next few weeks, but we need to remove the roots & rocks first........rain, rain, go away......

Roofing in the Dark

Here are those photos from Monday when the boys were trying to roof in the dark.


This was shortly after 6 pm - it was getting dark & it was a bit chilly.





Phil was on the roof!! The boys were ribbing him quite well, but Phil was up there to help & did his best.





All four guys from the crew were up & at it. I still haven't figured out how the roof jacks stayed up there....





These shots are done at 7 pm just as they finished for the day. I'm glad they got down when they did.