June 2 - Can lights have been installed under the Breezeway roof.
June 2 - This is how the upper window in the Brays room looks. The ceiling will not come to a point in the Brays Room. It will be flattened just above the window trim.
June 2 - The Brays Room Gable has been sided and trimmed.
June 2 - The Brays Room chimney liner has been completed and the brick wrap is being laid.
June 2 - Siding is now being installed on the Guest House end of the Main House. This is the front corner.
June 2 - The back corner is also getting siding applied. Note the use of the forklift again.
June 2 - The Guest House is being prepped for window installation.
June 2 - The windows need extra straps attached so they will be solidly mounted and meet hurricane code ratings. Notice the 6 silver clips in the photo. They are attached here on site before installing the windows.
June 2 - The Brays Room chimney is going on up. It will be about 2 1/2 feet below the main chimney when it is completed.
June 2 - The Main House Front Porch is getting can lights. Rough in wiring is proceeding in the Main House.
June 2 - The Brays Room fireplace will be covered with brick. It will be wood burning.
June 2 - The Jr. Master Screened Porch has a V-Groove ceiling, can lights and a fan electrical box. This will be a screened porch.
June 2 - Windows are being installed in the Guest House. These are Marvin's Integrity windows.
June 2 - The rear of the Guest House has several windows installed. Installing impact rated windows (required by code) is more tedious because of the extra brackets.
June 2 - Both baths in the Guest House have casement windows.
June 2 - This is how the windows in the Great Room look from the Kitchen area of the Guest House.
June 3 - The chimney liner (gray part) is at full height. The brick outer covering is being laid. Notice the chimney from the Great Room fireplace to the right.
June 3 - The view from the Jr. Master Screened Porch is beautiful.
June 3 - The Guest House front gable has been painted in the finish colors. The trim color is very close to the siding color. The colors have been approved by the ARB.
June 3 - Electricians are installing can lights. These are in Bedroom #1 of the Guest House.
June 3 - The Guest House Living room area has sloping can lights so their light will be directed downward.
June 6 - We are having a real frog strangler here today. We have gotten several inches of rain and it is still falling. The rain has not hampered the workers, however.
June 6 - A platform and access door have been built for one of the HVAC units. This one is for the Master Suite end of the house.
June 6 - The attic storage over the Great Room now has plywood walls to prevent items from falling. The far end has an opening which will have an access door. This opening goes down to over the Jr. Master Walk in Closet (see next photo).
June 6 - There is a ladder down to a platform for another HVAC unit on the Jr. Master end of the house.
June 6 - The Guest House front door has been installed.
June 6 - The Guest House Great Room windows and Screen Porch door have been installed.
June 6 - This is one of the windows in the Guest House Bedroom #1. All of the Guest House windows and doors are now installed. Inspection is scheduled for Tuesday.
June 6 - The Brays room now has a flat ceiling at the peak.
June 7 - We passed the nailing and strapping inspection for the Breezeway today. We will add an electrical conduit in the 'attic' so if we need to run a wire from the house to the garage, it will be much easier. We can now install the Breezeway ceiling.
June 7 - The house and guest house have some 143 can lights. Most are for flat ceilings, but some such as these in the Main House Great Room are for sloping ceilings.
June 7 - The Guest House end of the Main House is getting siding on the gables. The attic window has also been installed.
June 7 - We passed the window and door nailing inspection in the Guest House today, so we can begin to side it.
June 7 - This is how the Guest House looks from the road. The colors on the gable are the final colors for the Guest House and other buildings.
June 7 - The Main House looks nice from the drive. The Guest House is visible on the right edge of the photo. The Garage is at the end of the Breezeway (on the left).
June 8 - The front dormers have windows installed. The left dormer has trim installed on it. The crown molding arrived today and is being back primed in preparation for installation.
June 8 - The stack of windows is getting smaller. The tall 'windows' on the right side are transoms standing on end. The table in the lower left corner is where windows are placed to install the hurricane brackets before installation.
June 8 - The Jr. Master Bedroom can lights and fan box are installed. They may have to be moved because the plan locations of the lights were inaccurate.
June 8 - The Breezeway lights are installed and wired. A conduit is also in place between the house and garage to make running wires between the two buildings easier if they are needed in the future.
June 8 - The yard has a number of worker vehicles. There are eight trucks/vans and a large work trailer (not counting our vehicles and trailer). The forklift is peeking out on the left edge of the photo.
June 8 - The kitchen can lights have been installed. Some/all of them will probably have to be moved, again because errors on the plans have been corrected.
June 8 - Painters are beginning to putty nail holes in the exterior trim so it can be painted. Once the trim near or over the roof is prepped, it will be painted and then roofing can begin. The Guest House has been cleared by the inspector for siding as soon as Trim carpenters are available.
June 8 - The Garage has been prepped for painting. Once the putty sets, it will be sanded.
June 8 - The Garage and Breeze way rough in wiring is about complete.
June 8 - The electrician carefully marks the location of can lights on the floor (and highlights them with blue paint). Then a plumb laser is put on the mark on the floor. It shines straight up (plumb) to mark the exact location on the ceiling. This located the lights very accurately.
June 8 - Notice the small white wires in the Garage ceiling joists. They are for the auto bay doors. One electrical box is for power to the electric door operator; the other, for control wires.
June 8 - The three front dormers have windows and window trim. The left dormer also has siding. The other two dormers should be finished in a couple of hours (probably tomorrow morning).
June 9 - The dormers are all finished now. They look really good and make a nice accent for the front of the house.
June 9 - The dormers looking up from the inside with their windows installed.
June 9 - Up close of the dormers from the outside. In looking at this picture I think there might be one little detail missing from the dormers. Can you spot it? I'll check tomorrow and let you know the answer.
June 9 - Some of the firebricks were installed today in the living/dining room fireplace.
June 9 - This is the study with its can lights installed incorrectly. These were taken down and moved today.
June 10 - The front right corner of the garage. The soffits and trim are painted and the garage is ready for the roof to be installed.
June 10 - The left corner of the garage with the trim all painted.
June 10 - The back of the garage with the trim all painted.
June 10 - The Study can lights have been rearranged in the ceiling to their final locations.
June 10 - This will make you dizzy! The can lights in the Master bedroom have been rearranged to their correct locations.
June 10 - Up close of the dormers. Can you see the missing moulding yet?
June 13 - The painter worked on the soffiting of the guest house today.
June 13 - The roofers can come to install the roof now that the soffit painting is done.
June 13 - The windows on the back of the guest house are still masked off from the spray painting.
June 13 - The window install guys are working on a window (far right side of photo).
June 13 - The stack of windows inside the house is dwindling!
June 13 - All of the windows on the right side of the house are installed now.
June 13 - The siding guys are working on the garage.
June 13 - The right side wall of the garage has its door and trim installed as well most of the siding.
June 14 - The windows on the front elevation are all installed now.
June 14 - The windows are installed and the siding is being installed on this end of the garage.
June 14 - A couple more windows are installed on the front left corner of the house.
June 14 - This gable siding is finished except for under the breezeway. They are waiting on the ceiling in the breezeway before finishing that siding.
June 14 - The painters have begun up high on the house. It's hard to see but there are spots of putty all over.
June 14 - The painters are working away up on the high roofs.
June 15 - The dormers have their first coat of paint on them and the framer is sealing holes in the roof.
June 15 - The back side of the garage is finished now including the crown moulding.
June 15 - The end of the garage nearest the road is almost finished now.
June 15 - A couple more windows have been installed on the left side of the house.
June 15 - The back window of the master bedroom is installed.
June 15 - Two of the window sets are installed in the Outdoor Living room.
June 15 - The can lights are now in their correct position in the kitchen.
June 15 - The ceiling joists have been blocked out in the guest house to allow for the can lights to be centered.
June 15 - These were the last two can lights to be installed after the framers moved the ceiling joist today.
June 15 - It's hard to see but the door frame for the master linen closet is in place.
June 15 - The bricks are finished on one side of the firebox and part way up the other.
June 16 - Roofing began today. This machine turns rolls of metal into standing seam panels.
June 16 - Here are some of the panels made and stacked for the guest house.
June 16 - The stack of panels for the guest house after the fabricator was finished.
June 16 - Here is one of the stack of panels from behind the garage.
June 16 - Here are the rest of the panels for the garage. They were prepped today for installation.
June 16 - Prepping the panels for installation means making special bends at the bottom to hook the drip edge.
June 16 - You can barely see it but the drip edge trim is installed around the edges of the roof.
June 16 - Drip edge was also installed on the guest house. I think the dark profile adds definition to the fascia.
June 16 - The painters are painting the siding on the high areas now. The trim is already painted.
June 16 - The doors and windows for the kitchen screened porch are installed now.
June 16 - The last window on the back of the house is installed.
June 16 - The dormers are finished being painted now. The trim guys added the piece that was missing. Do you see it?
June 17 - Half of the roof is finished on the front of the garage now.
June 17 - The roof on the back of the garage is done!
June 17 - The gable ends on the left side of the house are all finished painted.
June 20 - The left front of the garage roof is finished.
June 20 - The right front of the garage roof is finished as well.
June 20 - The roof on the front of the guest house is started.
June 20 - The right side gable painting started and the soffiting is painted.
June 20 - The crown moulding is installed around the master bathroom.
June 20 - The trim around the master bedroom alcove is started.
June 20 - Crown moulding is done around the back of the house.
June 20 - The breaker panel is mounted and wires will soon be pulled to here.
June 21 - Crown moulding is installed around the back side of the house now.
June 21 - The rear gable was rebuilt today to have the appropriate trim and crown.
June 21 - The crown moulding continues around the Jr. Master Bath.
June 21 - The board & batten siding was started today on the guest house.
June 21 - The trim and siding really turned out nicely. It's hard to tell but the roof on this side is now finished.
June 21 - The other side of the guest house with the boards installed behind the battens.
June 21 - The roofers installed panels on the right-front side of the house today.
June 22 - The rest of the trim and soffiting on the front of the house was primed in today.
June 22 - It's hard to see in this light but the dormers are all painted and you see a bit of contrast between the trim and siding.
June 22 - The soffiting and trim on the right side of the house was primed in today. Tomorrow it will be painted.
June 22 - Another wall of the guest house is finished now. This is the last of the board & batten. The rest will be lap siding.
June 23 - The trim on the kitchen porch is done around the windows and the siding has started.
June 23 - The right side of the guest house is being finished out.
June 23 - The painters painted the lower horizontal soffiting today.
June 23 - In the background is the new stack of panels for the metal roof on the main house.
June 23 - The masons have the firebricks trimmed up and they have drilled the hole to install the make-up air pipe.
June 24 - The trim on the rear gable is painted.
June 24 - The painting is finished on the soffit and fascia around the left side of the house and screened porch.
June 27 - The left-front quadrant of the house is nearly complete.
June 27 - Fresh air vents have been installed in the fireplaces.
June 27 - Exterior trim continues around the guest house.
June 27 - Some of the roofing is installed on the back-right quadrant of the guest house.
June 27 - This little area between the porch and the windows has been rebuilt to look better.
June 27 - The painters finished this wall today. The roofing can now be installed without the painters needing to be on top of it.
June 28 - The shingles are being delivered.
June 28 - It's a little hard to see but the shingles have all been placed on the roof.
June 28 - Roofers are working on the back-left quadrant of the guest house.
June 28 - The back-right side of the guest house roof is nearly complete.
June 28 - It's hard to see through the trees but the front-right side of the guest house roof is complete.
June 28 - The right side board & batten siding is done on the guest house.
June 28 - The trim and siding are nearly done in the kitchen screened porch.
June 28 - The trim and siding around the kitchen and master bedroom doors are done.
June 29 - Two of the corbels are done on the front of the garage. These are the little triangles at the corners of the eaves.
June 29 - Here is the back side of the corbel on the garage.
June 29 - The siding is coming along on the Jr. Master Porch.
June 29 - The siding is finished on the Kitchen screened porch. The ceiling will be done next and then the crown moulding.
June 29 - This section of siding was left out so that the brick veneer could be installed in its place.
June 29 - One more wall on the guest house is nearly finished.
June 30 - Here is a closeup of a corbel on the garage from the front.
June 30 - And here is the corbel from the side view.
June 30 - The siding is finished on the left side of the guest house now.
June 30 - The siding is finished on the right side of the guest house now.
June 30 - The siding, ceiling and almost the crown moulding are finished on the Jr. Master porch now.