Ready for Siding and Windows

It feels like forever since there has been any real progress. We have had a really hard time lately staying optimistic. The completion of electrical and plumbing was long and very drawn out. Several weeks crawled by with virtually no visible progess. We seem to be back on track Maybe? The house has sheetrock now and is ready for siding and windows which should start tommorrow.

We Love Concrete...Not exciting...But it is Progress

 

Lots of concrete work got finished this week. Got to love these guys,  they come and they finish. Of course they kind of have to. Once you start you can't stop. It has been a source of major frustration the last few weeks that none of the trades seem to finish a job. They come and they go and they come and they go! The roofers came eigth times to finally finish the job. If they only paid attention to how much time they were wasting coming and going they might stay put and just finish a job. 

The concrete work got done a in a timely manner and right before the rains started. After 100 days of unheard of no rain in Oregon, it started again. We went from living in dust, to living in mud overnight.

 

 

Visit to Wood is Wonderful Foundation to find our New Reclaimed Wood Stairs

Today our cabinet maker extraordinaire Duane and I drove to Sheridan Oregon. We went to see the Wood is Wonderful Foundation Recycled Wood Alchemy Warehouse. We met Rich Mathis and he showed us around. I think we were both pretty blown away by the amount of wood that they have stocked. Everything from old barns, schools, warehouses that have been demo'd and wood salvaged. You name it they have it, and alot of it. Rich is quite passionate about what he does and very helpful. We told him our project: stairtreads for an open stringer stairway and also a seat portion for our entry hall bench. He guided us around the options and we settled on some pine beams that came from a tobacco storage warehouse in Lexington, Kentucky. Those beams are in the middle of that pile of wood below. He will mill them to the depth we want from the outside of the beams. That way we get the patina of the old beams for our stair treads.