Roofing finished, flatwork done

Wednesday morning the roofers showed up around 8:30 to finish up. It looks real nice. They had two squares (six bundles) of shingles left over.




At 1:00 or so the concrete folks showed up to pave the basement floor. They mounted a pole at the stair corner. We don't know if that was where it was supposed to go. We thought there was another pad between the stairs and the east basement wall. Couldn't find it though. Apparently they couldn't either. No matter, the basement looks great.




Financial news: We will be filing for a draw on Friday to pay the carpenter, the concrete people, the plumber, the plumbing and heating materials, the front door and some miscellany. Hopefully we'll have no hassles. Also the last package of materials was ordered. This includes the electrical, drywall, insulation, and millwork. We didn't order the HVAC materials yet. We'll have to express payment to President to get that and have Midwest come back to install it. With this material purchased and these subs paid, we've spent almost all our construction loan escrow; there's $40,000 left to pay for the remaining labor. That's within our budget. We're in pretty good shape.

Future work news: The plumber didn't come Thursday. We hope he'll be here Friday to do all the rest of the rough plumbing. Shawn said he'd be coming around Saturday to finish the stairs. We don't know if he has anything else to do. We'll have to have him come back for a couple of side jobs; building a landing outside the French doors in the dining room and framing up Kathy's basement office. We talked to the electrician today; he obviously can't come until the electrical materials arrive. We hope he doesn't get too busy after they get here.

In other news, the bid from Stonewall to build a retaining wall and window well arrived. $9000 for the wall, almost $3000 for the well. Ouchie. We went to Menards to buy a spacesaver vanity for the upstairs half bath, and while there Paul looked at the paving blocks and how to build a retaining wall. Apparently it could be done for $1500 in materials, plus tools and lots and lots of labor. We noted that because the wall has to be backfilled, it's actually okay that so much was cut into the park. We'll just build the wall on our property and backfill behind it. Maybe for that much of a price differential we'll just build it ourselves. We don't know.

Anyway, that can wait. With the electrical, plumbing and HVAC done it will be time to insulate the walls and then drywall. That concludes the building portion of the project. (Yay!) The tentative schedule calls for all this to be done by July 16, though it might be a few days after that if we have any delays. Hoping for continued good luck.......