November 4, am - Wiring started on Tuesday. This is the master bedroom. You can see electrical boxes in place for switches and outlets. Lights hanging from the ceiling will power can lights.
November 4, am - This is where the master vanity will be located. There will be an outlet at each end of the vanity and a strip of outlets near the knee hole in the makeup area. The white pipe is for the lavatory drains and vent lines.
November 4, am - Air conditioning vents are being installed in the Trophy office area.
November 4, am - Plywood has been installed on the wall in the mechanical room for the electrical breaker boxes and other equipment. Electrical service will come in the gray pipes. The white pipe is a drain pipe from the master suite area.
November 4, am - Look closely and you will see plywood stripping on the studs. Solid plywood will be installed where the strips end. The plywood will make a solid place to mount trophies. The plywood and strips will be covered with dry wall.
November 4, am - This is where the kitchen sink will be located. The red line is for hot water; the cold for blue. How easy is that? The white pipes are drains. Note the electrical boxes in the half wall. The two end boxes are for receptacles. The one in the center (to the left of the right most) is for a switch for the disposal.
November 4, am - The laundry sink and butler pantry sinks will be connected to this plumbing. The freezer has a water line (for an ice maker) in the lower left of the photo.
November 4, am - The washer/dryer stack connections are on the right side. The white box is the plumbing terminal (hot & cold water and drain) for the washer. The gray boxes are for power.
November 4, am - The kitchen planning area in the push out will have an outlet above and below the desk top.
November 4, am - The upstairs bath vanity has plumbing roughed in. Wiring is also being roughed in to the upstairs.
November 6 - The drywall downstairs will have 3/4in plywood behind it so trophies can be mounted securely. Air conditioning ducts are being installed as are plumbing pipes.
November 6 - The fireplace is now on the floor. The plywood box above it will hold a television. Artwork will go in front of it. The height to the center of the artwork is about 71in.
November 6 - The wall to the left of the fireplace is also backed with 3/4in plywood from about 4ft and up. Sheet rock will be installed over the plywood.
November 6 - The HVAC duct has been boxed in outside the wet bar. It has plywood in case mounts are installed on the faces.
November 6 - The two 9ft wide sliding doors are installed. They have protective film on them, so they are a bit milky looking. Both doors open from the center to the sides. as you can see in the next photo.
November 6 - The sliding doors are open. The three doors stack on the left and right side. You can see the film on the doors.
November 6 - The central vacuum system is being installed. The white pipe and red wires are for the system. There are about half a dozen vacuum access points.
November 6 - The main floor and upstairs air handler will be mounted in the tray which is in the attic. The column behind it is the chimney chase.
November 6 - The upstairs office has a vacuum outlet. The main unit will be installed beneath the bump out in the garage for easy access. It will not be installed at this time. Right now, only components that are in the wall are being installed.
November 6 - The sliding doors open on to the deck. A small amount of the house still needs house wrap.
November 6 - Abbey is standing beside the downstairs photo/TV location. She is 5ft 7in tall.
November 7 - The main air handler is installed and ducting is beginning. Most of the outlets are in place and flex duct is run to trunk line locations. The pan under the air conditioner will have an alarm in it so if, for some reason, the air conditioner condensate line plugs and the pan fills with water, the homeowner will be notified by the security system.
November 7 - The basement air handler is ducted to the trunk lines. The line on the left is the return air line. This unit will have a sump pump for the condensate.
November 7 - The ceiling over the bar has been blocked down to hide the air conditioner duct. The ceiling behind the bar is about 8.5ft high. If you look closely through the storage room door (middle of photo), you can see blocking over the garage sink drain (white pipe) line.
November 7 - The security system has been roughed in. The white wire on the left stud will be a contact for the door into the garage. The red wires are where one key pad will be installed. The second keypad will be installed in the master bedroom.
November 10 - The plumbing rough in is nearly complete. Drains are run. Vent lines are run. Most of the supply lines (red for hot and blue for cold) are run. This is where the garage sink will be located.
November 10 - The yellow lines coming down near the center of the photo are gas lines that go to the fireplaces upstairs deck grill and cook top. Lines will be added outside for the (future) generator and downstairs grill. The gas rough in should be complete tomorrow.
November 10 - A hole has been bored through the concrete wall for the water line to the well. The tank will be moved inside.
November 10 - Electricians are installing can lights. There will be about 120 can lights total in the house. These particular lights are in the kitchen.
November 10 - Each fireplace has a gas line for logs. It also has an electrical line for a blower. The non vented fireplace for the library arrived today and will be installed soon.
November 10 - The office over the garage has can lights installed. It also has a smoke detector since the building department would consider this a bedroom (because it has a closet).
November 10 - The plenum (box at the end of the air handler) has been built and trunk lines are being assembled on the main system.
November 11 - The downstairs fireplace in installed. The large area above the fireplace is where a flat screen television will be installed.
November 11 - Gas comes into the house in the mechanical room. It is fed to the manifold (black horizontal pipe in center). From there each leg goes off to an in house device: The blue handles are shut offs for each gas line.
November 11 - The living room fireplace is installed. Notice the two pipes going up the chimney chase. The left pipe is from the Trophy Room fireplace (downstairs). The right pipe is from this fireplace.
November 11 - The smallest of the three fireplaces is in the Library. It is vent free, so you don't see a pipe going up. All fireplaces have gas logs.
November 11 - More of the 125 or so can lights are being installed. This row is over the Master Bath vanity.
November 11 - More ducting is being installed in the attic. You can see the large trunk line on the right. You can also see one of the fireplace exhaust pipes going up the chimney chase.
November 11 - This is a different view of the main trunk ducting. This system is zoned, so it can feed cool (or hot) air to different parts of the home independently.
November 11 - A large trunk lines runs across the attic over the master suite to feed that area.
November 11 - The chimney exhaust lines are clearly visible in the chimney chase. The Master Suite trunk is visible on the left.
November 12 - The exterior trim has begun. The garage doors are trimmed. The wide board is a band board. Stucco goes below the band and siding will be installed above it.
November 12 - One of the hose bibs is located between the garage auto bay door and the house side door.
November 12 - A second hose bib is located outside the double doors downstairs. This wall still needs house wrap.
November 12 - A third hose bib is located on the south east corner of the house. This is the left front corner as you face the house.
November 12 - The fourth hose bib is on the garage wall of the front porch.
November 12 - Soffits have been framed for the cabinets. On the right side, the soffit will be over the freezer, a laundry sink and a pantry. The left side of the wall is the location of the Butler's Pantry.
November 12 - This soffit is over the oven and microwave.
November 12 - A soffit over the main bank of kitchen cabinets is nearly completed.
November 12 - The HVAC system ducts keep being assembled. The top trunk line feeds the upper bedroom and the office over the garage.
November 13 - Exterior trim is continuing. The soffit, frieze, fascia and crown have been installed on the garage and down the north side of the house.
November 13 - Plywood has been installed on the wall behind the wet bet bar. It will be covered with dry wall. The plywood will give us a solid wall to hang mounts.
November 13 - More cans are installed. Also blocking is installed for the decorative beams that will be installed on the ceiling.
November 13 - The Air Conditioning tech is continuing to run his ducts. Things were a little slow today because one of the techs was out sick.
November 14 - Work is progressing on the exterior trim. The soffit, fascia, frieze and crown is installed around the Butler Pantry corner of the house.
November 14 - The band board, soffit frieze and crown is on part of the back of the house. The water table on the south side of the house is done also.
November 14 - These are part of the feed wires (wires that go from the breaker box to various circuits). So far, over 3,000 feet of feed wire (over 1/2 mile) has been used. That does not count wiring to lights, outlets and such. They have also used over 200 single electrical boxes (for a single switch or outlet). That does not count double or triple boxes.
November 14 - The AV box is in the mechanical room. By putting a box in, it is easy to change things as needed.
November 14 - The gray box in the upper center is for a fan in the trophy room. There are 4 can lights centered on the fireplace as well.
November 18 - More exterior trim is installed. The skirt has a drip and flashing on it. The corner boards are installed. The windows will have drip and flashing over them.
November 18 - The HVAC ducting is growing. It is nearing completion.
November 18 - The HVAC system has three zones. It serves the main floor and the upstairs office and bedroom.
November 18 - The long gable has fascia, soffit frieze and crown installed. Roofers are scheduled to install flashing and start roofing tomorrow.
November 19 - A boom truck delivered the roofing shingles to the roof. The boom was amazing. Although it was very compact on the truck (see next photo), it was able to reach the peak of the roof with a (heavy) pallet of shingles. The roof will take 5,600 square feet of shingles (1/8 of an acre).
November 19 - The boom is folded up and ready for transport. It is neatly folded between the cab and the bed.
November 19 - The office over the garage has 3 fixed skylights for more natural lighting.
November 19 - The last two exterior doors arrived. The front door and the double rear door (look closely) are in the garage. They will be installed tomorrow.
November 19 - This is the attic with no flash on the camera. Notice the skylights on the left side.
November 20 - While the exterior trim is being finished, other trim people are starting to install siding.
November 20 - The front door is installed and the porch beam is cut in an arc to match the door transom.
November 20 - This is the final home of the living room air return. We had planned to put it in the wall above the door to the master suite hallway (left side of photo), but there was not enough room above the door. The fireplace is to the right of the return.
November 20 - The side door is installed. It will have a sconce light on the left side. The auto bay door will have a sconce light beside it also. There will be a stoop under the side door with steps down to the left.
November 20 - The tall gables are getting trim. This one (the south end) is nearly trimmed. There is not (white) crown on the left side.
November 20 - Here is another view of the front door. It has an elliptical transom and side lights. There is temporary scaffolding in front of the door (right side of photo).
November 21 - More siding is installed. Notice the blocks for sconce lights beside the doors. Stucco will go below the band board.
November 21 - The east end of the master suite (her closet) has siding on it also.
November 21 - The last remaining trim (except for the small dormer over her closet) is being finished. The tall gable should be finished today.
November 24 - The exterior trim subs worked Saturday and made a good bit of progress. They worked half a day on Monday (until they were rained out). Note the side door is installed and the siding is finished on the North side. Stucco will go below the band board.
November 24 - The South side has a good bit of siding installed.
November 24 - The double door downstairs is also installed. All of the exterior doors (except the garage doors) are now installed.
November 26 - Siding is now on the front of the house and on the large gable over the front porch.
November 26 - Siding on the front porch is nearly complete. A trim board will go along the ceiling when it is installed.
November 26 - A small bit of the garage wall (on the right side of the front porch) needs siding.