This week ended with a little bit of progress everywhere. A couple of coats of finish on the upper level porch floors, priming porch posts while installing the rest of the railings, and so on. Siding installation was started as well, but much of this will have to wait until our doors arrive in early- to mid- February.
New work included the start of the electrical rough-in, which we spent way too much time stressing over, completion of the HVAC rough-in, the majority of plumbing rough-in, and the grading and forms needed to allow for pouring of the ground-level concrete floor.
On the interior finishing side, Bonnie met with our designer to review tile and hardwood options, and started the grueling process of reviewing the lighting, plumbing and cabinet proposals we've received over the last week. Some of these have eye-popping numbers associated with them, so we will need to do some pruning in the coming weeks!!
Sadly, the time-lapse camera we installed to take construction photos at 10-minute intervals has bitten the dust... it looks like it was swept off of it's mount to who-knows-where since a Bobcat was used to move some earth in preparation for our concrete pour. No cool time-lapse construction video for us, unless we find it soon abandoned somewhere in a pile of rubble...
It's hard to keep up with everything that's going on right now. Let us know if you'd like to hear more or less about something as we navigate through a multitude of decisions in the coming weeks!
In the meantime, we're looking forward heading to the Charleston Boat Show this weekend to look for a future fishing machine! Between the tidal creeks, Intracoastal waterway, rivers, Charleston harbor, and of course the ocean to explore, it's a much more difficult decision than one would expect, but not a bad problem to have, at all..
Enjoy!
Ron & Bonnie
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| Starting to look like a finished home on the outside. Unfortunately, the siding work can't continue much beyond what you see until we have the doors to install, which may take another 1-2 weeks based on current projections. |
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| Upper-level porch floors are 4 coats into their 6-coat process, and railings have been installed in all ares except the master bedroom, which was a work-in-progress as of late this afternoon. |
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| The view from our neighbor's back yard. Not too bad, and will improve with a couple of palmetto trees to help break up the hard lines of the building when complete. |
New work included the start of the electrical rough-in, which we spent way too much time stressing over, completion of the HVAC rough-in, the majority of plumbing rough-in, and the grading and forms needed to allow for pouring of the ground-level concrete floor.
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| Let's get that slab just right so we don't have any issues with water flow across the property! It's going to be close as we try to balance grading needs with overall building height requirements and keeping an acceptable garage height. Inspector Bonnie in the background. |
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| Electrical rough-in has only just begun. |
On the interior finishing side, Bonnie met with our designer to review tile and hardwood options, and started the grueling process of reviewing the lighting, plumbing and cabinet proposals we've received over the last week. Some of these have eye-popping numbers associated with them, so we will need to do some pruning in the coming weeks!!
Sadly, the time-lapse camera we installed to take construction photos at 10-minute intervals has bitten the dust... it looks like it was swept off of it's mount to who-knows-where since a Bobcat was used to move some earth in preparation for our concrete pour. No cool time-lapse construction video for us, unless we find it soon abandoned somewhere in a pile of rubble...
It's hard to keep up with everything that's going on right now. Let us know if you'd like to hear more or less about something as we navigate through a multitude of decisions in the coming weeks!
In the meantime, we're looking forward heading to the Charleston Boat Show this weekend to look for a future fishing machine! Between the tidal creeks, Intracoastal waterway, rivers, Charleston harbor, and of course the ocean to explore, it's a much more difficult decision than one would expect, but not a bad problem to have, at all..
Enjoy!
Ron & Bonnie
Good thing we didn't decide on yellow as a final color 😀 It's just the primer. The final finish will be a historical Charleston color called Quill.
ReplyDeleteYes, Quill is sort of a "greige", and will be trimmed with an off-white called Aunt Betty's China, with Cistern brown on the lower louvers, and piazza blue porch ceilings, capped with a galvanized silver metal roof. We can post a blog entry soon showing this palette that we've chosen.
DeleteI was just about to call you to ask about the color! It didn't look like the millions of samples that we inspected :)
DeleteIt looks like a house! Awesome! Too bad about the camera...I think the construction crew didn't want big brother watching over them. ;)
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