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It's been a busy couple of weeks! Most of the windows and doors are in – Whoohoo! And just in time because we had some pretty wild storms.
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| Living room sliding doors with transom windows above and our "bonus" window to the right facing east |
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| Kitchen windows facing south and window to the left facing east to the Astoria column |
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| Door to the first floor deck in the laundry room |
In addition, the house has been wrapped with HydroGap Drainable Housewrap which has small blue beads of plastic that allow air and moisture to pass behind the siding. You can read more about the product here.
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| HydroGap Drainable Housewrap |
And the fireplace in the living room is starting to take shape! We purchased a Homer Bucket to put under the open chimney hole to try and mitigate some of the rain getting into the house, but it didn't work very well. Brian had a better idea, he put the bucket upside down over the flue housing on the roof.
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| Brian and Hank working on the fireplace |
And then the subcontractors started showing up. What I didn't realize (I should have, but never thought about it) was that subcontractors were all going to poke holes in our newly framed, sheathed and weathered-in house! The first to arrive was Ron from Dugan's Heating Solutions, ready to rough in the heat pump/mini-split system.
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Roughed-in HVAC lines for the mini-split unit. They couldn't go through the
framing here because just underneath this wall is a really big steel beam!
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| HVAC lines going through all our ceiling trusses to get to the mini-split location at the living room wall |
Ron also installed the fans in the bathrooms and the vent for the dryer. Apparently it's now code in Oregon to have the dryer vent in a housing in the wall, not looped around behind the dryer. Our dryer vent goes down into the crawlspace and then out through the foundation wall in the back, instead of up and out to the deck wall, Brian's idea - smart!
Next up, more sub-contractors...
