Shingles & Windows WITH PICTURES!!!

I added the pictures!!

It’s amazing, we haven’t seen much progress for a couple of weeks, then in one week, big changes! We talked to Tim on Monday and he told us what was planned for the week, finishing the roof and installing the doors and windows. So we were excited to see the place.

We didn’t come up until Saturday night because we went to a gradation party for the daughter of one of our friend’s. It was fun and we got to see a lot of people we enjoy, but the whole time I was thinking about what the cabin looked like.

TA-DA!! Wow, doesn’t it look great! I’m so glad we choose the green shingles! Here are the four views of the house.

Check out the railings on the porch. I didn’t like the standard railings that came with the kit, the balusters were 4” in diameter and I thought they just looked too chunky. So I found some I liked. These are only 2” in diameter. I’m not sure what kind of wood they are, they don’t have any bark left on them, but the different colors of the wood sure gives them a lot of character. Check out this section, I love the curve on the top rail.

Rick and I took this whole week off The task for this week is the chimney. About 8:00 Monday morning, Brian showed up. He is a stone mason that was hired to do the chimney. Steve got here about 8:30 and they got started. When they poured the concrete floor for the sun porch, they put in a footing for the chimney. Here Brian has just gotten started, he first puts up a box of plain block and then on the inside he lines it with fire bricks that are the inside of the fireplace.

Then he just keeps building up the box, he fills in behind the firebricks as he goes along.

Since this is a short week anyway, no one else will be here and they will be done with all of this tomorrow. I don’t think they will do the cultured stone on the outside, but the fireplace will be build.

Rick has all kinds of work planned for the week. Of course, I don’t know what it is and when I ask, he just says we’ll keep busy. Today we used the tractor to move sand around to under where the porch steps will be and Rick has worked out all of the details for how to build them, so I guess that will be one of the tasks.

We got the estimate for putting in electricity, $16,000! And that is assuming they don’t hit ledge, so we are also going to get 8 more of the deep-cycle batteries and continue to stay off the grid. And we are going to get a box-scraper for the tractor and smooth out the driveway even more.

If you are in Maine this weekend, come by and visit!