The last two days have been filled with activity by several trades - the trim crew, the tile crew, the pool crew, and the rainwater collection crew have all been hard at work.
Trim Crew
Ivan and his trim craftsmen have hung all of the doors and are using great care to make sure they are installed correctly. It's been very interesting watching the guys trim the drywall and fit in the door casing before hanging the door. You've probably heard of a door shim before, here's one in place on the mudroom storage closet door. This piece (or pieces) of wood is used to make the assembly level and plumb.
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| Door shim |
And did you know the decorative trim around the outside of the door has anatomical names? The two vertical pieces are called the legs and the horizontal piece across the top is called the header. The legs go up first and then the header.
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| Two legs, no header |
Tile Crew
Garrett and the tile crew delivered pallets and pallets of tile for floors and showers. They first staged it on the front porch and them moved it to rooms where it will be installed.
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| Bruce and Garrett and tile |
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| Tile Staging Area |
We were very excited to see our selections in the natural light of the house. Here's one of the decorative tiles - sheets of onyx squares for the master bathroom. This selection will encase the soaker tub, line the shower soap niche, be used in a wall design in the shower, and edge the vanity.
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| Master Bathroom decorative tile |
Pool Crew
The pool crew laid out the markers for the new position of the pool - we moved it further from the house. After they sprayed paint and put in metal spikes to mark certain specific locations, they started building the perimeter with stakes of wood.
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| Tim and Arnold from Pristine Pools |
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Wood for stakes
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| Cutting Stakes |
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| Outlining the shape of the pool |
After the crew outlines the perimeter of pool with stages, the heavy equipment came in and started digging!!
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| It is tough to dig in this rocky area!! |
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| Check out the big rocks unearthed by the backhoe!! |
And when the rocks were just too big to handle, the crew used a hydraulic hammer to beat them into submission!!!
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Hydraulic Hammer
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Rainwater Collection Crew
James Riley, our rainwater collection expert, was also hard at work digging the trenches to lay the pipes for our rainwater collection system. The water will roll off the metal roof into the gutters, travel down the downspouts, and flow into the pipes that will be laid in these trenches. Then the water will travel to the cisterns for storage. Filtration, purification, and pumping to the house then follows.
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| Trench for rainwater pipe |
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| See the downspout location and trench below it |
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| Trench in front of entry porch |
These trenches may not be very glamorous, but they are very, very important to us and we are thrilled to see a whole lot of digging going on!!!!!
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