Building A House: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Raise the Roof!

It's been a while since my last post, and so many things have happened with the house. All but one window has been installed, and that is because there was one window that wasn't ordered. As you can see, I love, love, love windows!!!!! I love all of the natural light that this house is going to provide!!!The roof has been decked, the rest of the hardy board siding is being finished up, the plumbing is set (with bathtubs being installed), and the electric work and HVAC are being installed. There is still a lot more work to do on that end, but it's moving right along. To give you an idea on the fast pace this builder is going, Travis called me on Friday around 10:30 and said, "I need you to meet me at Colburn's to pick out fixtures for all of the bathrooms and the kitchen, along with bathtubs. It needs to be done in the next few minutes." Thankfully, it was my conference time at school, so I was able to get away for a few minutes to take care of this. I already had some things in mind, so I had it taken care of in about 20 minutes. There was a slight delay on installing the siding this week, because we had to wait for part of the roof to be installed before they could finish the siding. We are having a metal roof, so this is why we had to wait on that part to be finished. It is not the entire roof, just around where the siding a roof line meet. We are really enjoying watching all of this come together.

Next on the list, we have to pick out the paint color for the hardy board. It may sound silly, but this is probably one of the tougher parts. You want to make sure everything matches with the wood, stone, and the metal roof. Hopefully, in the next couple of weeks, the electric work and HVAC work will be getting close to being done so we can start with the spray-in insulation.

Everything is happening very quickly, and we are thankful for that! We cannot wait to be in our home!!!

Oh yeah, it rained again today :)