Leaving City Life Behind

I know, I know, once again I am late as it is now three weeks since my last update on Sunday 3rd September. I've been a trifle busy and had much frustration in terms of keeping contractors both active on my site and aligned, plus booking others in, so I can get the house to lock up and certain critical jobs completed before running into cold weather. Before I start a write up of the last three weeks, the photo below is the house as it was at the end of my last update with the roof over framing in place ready for the subsequent spray foam insulation. Monday 4 September, the day after I last published an update, was yet another statutory (public) holiday for Labour day, so no activity. Next day I had two contractors on site, my electrician, and fireplace installers. The electrician was fitting LED pot lights above all three covered decks (front, over garage and rear loft bedroom deck), and a few internally above the Great Room. These are fitted through the 2" tongue and gr...

Greetings and once more my apologies, as yet again I have failed in my intention to post every two weeks, it now being three weeks since the last update on Sunday 13 August.  The photo below is the house as I left you in my last transmission.   In spite of one of Jason's team having to be away for over a week (one out of three effectively reduces progress not to 66.6% but nearer 50%), and Jason himself having to jump back and forth between my build and his other clients three car garage build down in Sweetwater, there has been some good progress both by his team and by other contractors.   One significant move forward was the installation of my daylight walkout basement concrete slab and subsequently the  garage slab. I'd explained in my previous post the under slab plumbing being roughed in and then the rock slinger providing up to 6" of  3/4 " washed radon rock, which I (with Jason's guidance) had subsequently spent a significant amount of time levelling ...