Progress on the Garage and West Exterior Walls and Electrician Passageways

Last weekend, we started the EIFS on the garage. And today the West retaining walls of the house are being parged.  They will then be ready for the finish coat. We are in the process of choosing a color and texture.
 



























Bill worked on some old doors to have them become part of our house.  At least one of the doors came from the old farmhouse that was torn down early on  (see blog entry on demolition in August 2011).

Wires will go thru PVC from the Electric Panel to the 2nd Floor

And he made some 'channels' for the electrician to secure his wiring out of sight.

Channel across the South Wall housing electric boxes and wires and possibly lights

 

Water, Water, In the House

The drilling of the well was actually the very first physical thing accomplished in building our house.    The new well, put in in 2008, worked very well supplying water to the site...until last summer. The issues were difficult to identify, but after some months, we identified the problem and put a temporary fix in place until we could rearrange the equipment to its now permanent location within the new house.  This rearrangement finally occurred this past week. AND, we now have our new well connected to our new house, and the garage hydrant. So far so good! 

We also got some painting done, or at least testing out the colors on our walls. We painted two small storage area walls blue and yellow.

 Another facet of our progress that needs mentioning is the wall in the tunnel/wine cellar/pantry/utility room.  It now needs wire mesh and stucco to be completed.  And that will happen after the electrician gets some work done. 

 

I-Joists, Carpenters, South Visor, Cold Cellar Progress

The I-Joist remediation is complete.  The electrician has been notified.
 
The carpenters were here last week and put up the half wall in the kitchen and all the stud work under the stairway.  They also  framed the areas in the living room that will house lights and wiring.
 
The concrete finishers were out Saturday (almost 2 weeks ago) and finished the overhang on the South side of the house.  They also smoothed (parged) the back of the garage parapet.

Bill and I painted the cold cellar floor.  It is now ready for the water tank to be installed.