A Roof & Final Plumbing Fittings - Week 9, Saturday

It's Christmas Eve and we have a roof! So unbelievably thrilled to see it! It really looks like a house now.  The front supports, window cutouts, roof and framing is really giving us the feel of how the final house will be. It's pretty amazing how fast Oliver's team works. I keep hearing the next stages will have much slower progress, but I hope we can continue on this pace.

Roofed & ready for rain! It's a little hard to see the roof, but the black shingles are on. We did a 30 year composition roof.

Back deck*

Riley inspecting the spaciousness that is the deck

Deck with the roof support beam

Windows have arrived!

Kitchen

Inside roof upstairs

Upstairs framing is complete

Exterior with finished roof

*Ah, the back deck. We had no idea this little guy would be, well, not so little. It sounded great on paper to have a huge covered deck until we saw it in person and realized how much of the yard it takes up. It is also quite close to the garage which could make pulling two cars in the garage difficult. We're going to meet next week with Oliver to sort out the deck situation. We will definitely have to cut down the size.

In addition to the finishing the roof and framing, the crew has been doing a lot of work in the basement. Unfortunately, it's really hard to take photos down there and there is still no stairwell down from the main floor. The floor is all dug out and we officially have 8.5' ceilings. An expensive feature of the house, but one that will be completely worth it. The plumbing inspector came earlier this week and gave them the go ahead to pour the floor. Next week I hope to be able to walk around and check it out! They have also started to dig out the egress windows in the bedroom and entertainment area.

Away from the construction site, we finally finished picking out the plumbing fittings. Man was that a mess. I had no idea how hard it was going to be to keep on budget. It feels great to have that done and be able to move on. We decided to go all Grohe in Chrome for the faucets & showers with Speakman shower heads to stay on budget. Our original selections from Rohl were beautiful in Polished Nickel, but they landed us 3k over budget. Not ok. We're really happy with our final selections. I think we ended up with high quality products that are the perfect blend of modern and traditional.

Happy holidays!