I haven’t posted any pictures in a while, but today’s are worth the wait.
The fish scales will be painted a complimentary color, to make them stand out more from the siding. What colors are we going with? Ask Toby.
We have had the siding crew on site all week, but these pictures don’t show their progress, that will come later. Here is what Pop spent Saturday and Sunday (yes, he came back) working on.
He and I also worked on the trench for the underground utilities. Rough digging.
Finally, here is a panorama of the front after the last window was put in (click for full sized).
All that I wanted for my Labor Day present was to have siding and a roof. We didn’t make it, but it looks like a Columbus Day present may be achievable. This past weekend we prepared for Kevin’s mighty siding crew to be on site on Tuesday, 4 Sept 2007. We had some tasks that were necessary to complete before they could do the siding. Friday was a pretty yucky day for Pop as Van Nuys Plywood (location : Chatsworth) tried to hide the siding order (all 13,000 pounds of it) behind many pallets of other materials. Then, after confirming with Pop that our last window was available for pickup from WillCall, Milgard (location: Simi) delivered said window to Van Nuys Plywood. When Pop arrived at Milgard WillCall, there was great confusion as to where the window was. It was finally decided that the window could be special delivered to our house on Sunday morning. Pop arrived on site at about 3p and Mark and Linda and Pop and I unloaded about 1/2 of the siding (7,000 pounds). On Saturday, we spent much too long working on an ugly job under the house. Thanks to Auntie Kelly and Uncle Ray for taking Max and Lucy to the beach while Toby was doing a wedding and Pop and I were under the house. We finished up under the house at about 9 pm. Ugh! Sunday, we continued our list of pre-siding projects and waited for the Milgard window to show up, and waited and waited. Pop had decided to go home at 3:30p when a lady showed up with our window. It turns out that ‘Sunday morning’ meant 6a. She had stopped by but didn’t want to wake anyone. She was now on her way home. The important thing is that it was delivered. So Pop decided to stay a little longer to install this last window. While he was getting the tools together to install the window, I worked on pulling out the old window. I was a bit too aggressive with the last nail and the window shattered. All over the desks of the office. Toby was not happy.
After we cleaned up the glass, the existing opening was about 1/4 inch smaller than the new window. We had to break out the plane and the chisel to squeeze this window in. Pop left at about 7p. Monday I cleaned up the front yard. Tuesday, Kevin and his mighty crew showed up and began to work on the siding. Yay!
In the below picture, you can see the fantastic work that Granpa Seal did with the vents. It was a crazy ugly job because the floor joist and anchor bolts all seemed to show up right where we wanted to have a vent. It was a lot of work in the kneeling position. Thank you Granpa.
Had a pretty intense cloudburst for about 2 minutes. The rain on the plywood roof is really loud. Not enough to leak, so far.
Looking back through the posts of the blog, I came across these two pictures. December 1, 2005 
Artists rendition from the architect 
Actual view 