Lot's happening today!

The Northeast Spray Insulation company arrived today!

This sign welcomed me this morning.  The entire house get's 2" of insulatin foam
in every possible nook and cranny.  The foam is an R-14 value.  Later, backed fiberglass insulation will be installed over the spray foam making the total R value in excess of 25.
Cellulose insulation will eventually be pumped into the ceiling areas
after the ceiling wall-board is installed.

Here's what it looks like before the fiberglass, wall-board and cellulose.

The truck pumps foam from the street.

Eric Jones and his crew.

Our garage floor was poured and smooted today as well.
Rooney wanted to put his paw prints
in but we declined.

The long-awated great deck was began as well

Looking forward to many lovely evenings on our deck.

It was a quiet week in Lake Wobegone...

Well, not much happend at Chez Lamberth #2 this week.

We are down to 2 rough carpenters, Jeff and Andrew working on the outside finishing up the siding.  The East, South and West sides are now complete.  Patiently (not really) waiting for our deck.  Anyone seen Ben?

The electricians an plumbers finished up all the work they could do prior to the city inspections.  Now that approvals are in place the spray foam insulation company comes in tomorrow.  That should be very interesting.

The central vacuum piping was installed inside the walls.

The ERV air-to-air exchanger piping was installed in the walls and ceilings.

We met with Peter Graumnitz of Indisco, the company that is building our cabinets, for final decisions.

The tub/shower inclosure for the guest bath.arrived and is sitting in the garage.  They'll need to take some framing out to get it in 

The Portland Water District came in and installed our water meter.

I guess as I read this, a little more happened than I thought, it just seems glacial.

Donna and Rooney try out the tub/shower enclosure for the guest bath.

Andrew finishes up the West side.

Water meter (automatic) is installed.  Now we can pay our bill!

ERV System Installation, siding and things seem to go so slowly...!

Say hello to Jeff Grover of Grover Contracting.  Jeff is installing 

our ERV (Energy Recovery System) which is necessary when you super insulate.  (grovercontracting@yahoo.com)

Miles of heating system pipes hang down ready to be connected.

The rear and west wing (hmm...nice name for a tv series) is complete...

The soffit has a nice bead-board look.

Jeff and Andrew work on completing the siding.

The rear is done, save the deck..

which we can't wait for.

Thank you Tom and Jill.

It was great to see our friends, Tom and Jill and give them a tour.

Donna and I took chairs out onto the deck where we had
thrown down a couple of floorboards.

It was chilly out but we enjoyed our first beer and the sunset on our new deck!

Downstairs work continues at steady pace.

The electricians have completed their initial work.
The plumbers have most of the pipes in place and have just started working on installing the copper
pipes for the heating system.
The pipes for the central vacuum system are in the walls and the faceplates are set. (Thank you John Wyman!)

Next week will see:

Perhaps a garage floor!
Completion of the siding (maybe)
Our new deck and stairs! (hopefully)
Installation of our ERV system.
Installation of the beadboard ceiling of the front porch.
Installation of the heating system.

Single handedly bringing the economy back from the brink

Today there were a baker's dozen men working on our house.  Little wonder the decline in the housing market had such a profound effect on the economy.

Ben and his crew added the small deck that goes outside of our bedroom.

Veiw from the owners bedroom. 

Mark the plumber and his crew were here today.

Subs, Subs and more Subs

Now that the building package is nearly complete, in come the subs:

The Electricians are nearly complete with their first stage of their work.  All the junction boxes are wired, switches and outlets laid out, both inside and out, bases for exterior wall sconces and front and rear floods are cut and ready for fixtures.

The Plumbers come tomorrow.

We met with the Mason today and he should be on the site with a couple of weeks to build the chimney.

Eric Jones, who will install the Spray Foam Insulation was also in.

Likewise, Jeff who will install the ERV (Energy Recovery Ventilator) was taking measurements.

The siding on the rear of the house is nearly complete.

Nice reflection.

The soffits on the rear are nearly complete.

Subs...and recessed lighting.

The electricians arrived this morning in full force (both of them). 

Wires, Wires everywhere...

The "cans" are adde for the recessed lighting over
the dining room table.

Donna and I really appreciate recessed ligthting.  

To the pointthat we have almost 30 in this little house.

Soon, the plumbers.  It's a well known fact that good contractors avoid having multiple subs

on property at the same time as their territory often overlaps.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the crew continues to add
shingles to the gables.  Just one more to complete.

The current view from our bedroom window.