Completed Stairs...

Stairs in the garage going into the house

The completed stairs with rough banister

the stairs by the front door

The roughed in bathroom on the first floor

Update on Stairs

Story be told, we should be able to walk upstairs this weekend....

The platform for the turn in our stairs... thanks to our wonderful engineer :/

2/18/2012 stairs are up and functioning

Thursday 2/16/2012

Another week has gone by and lots of work is getting accomplished at the house.
We discussed the Grey water system with our plumber and he is on board to set us up.

Greywater is washwater. That is, all wastewater excepting toilet wastes and food wastes derived from garbage grinders. There are significant distinctions between greywater and toilet wastewater (called "blackwater"). These distinctions tell us how these wastewaters should be treated /managed and why, in the interests of public health and environmental protection, they should not be mixed together.

It is pretty interesting, and does not take more than a few extra minutes to install when roughing in original plumbing. So along with our usual plumbing that went in last week our plumber will be at our house again 2/17 to finish the greywater system.
As of yesterday (2/15) all windows had to be boarded up since our stairs are going in and we wanted to avoid anyone interested in taking anything. Our lights, electrical, and many other "stealable" items are in the house and we needed to protect those things. So the following pictures are our lovely home all boarded up and looking a little sad.

This is from the garage looking through to the south window

Looking up where the stairs are going to be

Our front door

All boarded up and waiting for doors

Thursday 2/9/2012

All week they have been working on roughing in all the electric. Today the rough plumbing went it. The wires for phone, cable, and internet are hanging from the ceiling and our stairs will be installed this weekend... Things are coming along!!

Dr. Weil's Anti-Inflammatory Food Pyramid

Dr. Weil's Anti-Inflammatory Food Pyramid

2/1/2012

Things have been moving along... our roofers finally got over to our house and put he material down for the metal roof to go on next. I believe they call it "sealing the envelope?"