It’s a Comin’

Despite mildly temperamental weather, Saturday still turned out to be very successful. We succeeded in ripping off the kitchen portion of our roof and building our new trusses. In actuality we only had to rip off a 5 x 20 ft. section so that we could get the elevation correct on the new trusses. We’re planning on ripping off the rest of the roof from the inside. We also succeeded in sheeting the new roof. This process lasted from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. It was a very full and tiring day, but we got it done.

We’re still waiting on roof trusses for the 4-season porch. As the porch will have a gable roof line, in an effort to save time, we opted to have a lumber yard build these. They are currently about a week out in fabrication. Hopefully though, we will have them in time for next weekend. Will post new pics soon.

High Hopes

We have high hopes for a productive weekend. After two so-so weather weekends in a row (first rain, than wind), we’re hoping that this Saturday will be different. Even though the forecast show unseasonably cold weather (high of 55), as long as it doesn’t rain, we are going to commence with removing the roof from the kitchen side of the remodel. We’re still two weeks out on roof trusses for the 4-season porch. We’ll have to get the roof on, the windows installed, and hopefully come Memorial Day weekend, we’ll be tearing out my existing kitchen and ripping down the walls between the old and new space. That will be an exciting day!

Raising the Walls

First wall constructed

Moving the wall into place, and Christina standing in what will be her new kitchen.

The view from our 4-season porch. Looks like Scott gets his wall of windows.

Christina posing in our new porch

Addition Progress

Final (for now) Laundry Room

We still have to paint the doors, but I think that will be a good job for next winter.

New Laundry Room Picture

Here's where we are at. Scott built the countertop tonight but he still needs to apply the laminate top. We need to finish trim, build shelves, install a faucet, and finish painting and installing the doors between the laundry room and mechanical room.

Finished Floor

We finished installing the laundry room floor last night. For a floating, click-together floor, I must admit it looks pretty good. The space feels very large and spacious, but I suppose this is true of any space that hasn’t yet been packed with junk.

We still have several things to finish up including: touch up paint, installing the trim, painting the sink base and hanging and painting doors. We’ll then have to shop for a countertop. This hasn’t been the most exciting project, but it’s always nice to see spaces change from non-useable to useable.