Siding

[murasaki99]

The exterior siding is done. More photos to come when I get a spare minute. This shot shows the siding about 7/8ths complete on the back side of the house

Comments

[queenriley]

Oh look at the nearly finished! That's awesome! It really does look great. Amazing to see... from torn down mess of rubble to THIS.

[murasaki99]

Now all that remains in the insulation, drywall, mudding, painting, flooring, bathroom fixtures... :D But the exterior is pretty much weatherproof, and that's a great relief.

[_steelphoenix_]

Wow, that's looking great! And yay on the further progress towards completion!

[murasaki99]

Thanks! :D I'd say we're about halfway there. *Phew* Man, it's making me tired, though. Full-time work and then I come home and get to do whatever needs doing at the house. *Flop*

[x_expat]

Looks very pretty! And LARGE. :-)

[murasaki99]

Thankies! The largeness is due to the pitch of the roof-span trusses. At least the middle area under the roof is decked as an attic so we can store light stuff up there. I hate wasted space. I'd have preferred it to be a live-able loft, but the cost was too much. Construction is full of compromises. :)

[aeljn]

Hurrah! I'm glad to see so much has been done. Just sent a letter to your Mom about the "fun" we've been having since lightning struck the house last week. (Turns out it was a good thing I was playing Mahjongg on my computer -- the painful, but not dangerous, shock I got through the mouse seems to have grounded my computer. Ed's computer was fried.)

[murasaki99]

Good grief, you got zapped?? I'm glad you're OK! Yikes!

[aeljn]

Yes, I was zapped, but it just hurt at the time and made my arm & fingers ache for a few hours.

Thanks! I'm rather glad, too.

[centaurg]

I'm thinking what you described shouldn't have happened at all. Sounds disturbingly like the "grounding" in your house isn't, and should be tested by a qualified electrician.

An allegedly qualified electrician who did work on my mother's house left such miswiring that several of the basement wall sockets had a full 120 volts on the ground prongs--I proved this by connecting the ground to a water pipe through a light bulb, which promptly glowed at full brilliance.

Given that your house got zapped, an electrician should check things out on general principle. There may be damage.

I'm sort of glad I no longer live where lightning is a common occurrence.

[centaurg]

Oh, and while I'm at it tonight--looks like someone's got a house! No doubt you can taste the anticipation of when it's all done and you can start populating the new section.

[murasaki99]

Indeed! I wanna move stuff in there now, but there is insulation (started yesterday), drywall, paint, flooring, finishing, fixtures... But it is going very well so far and the outside looks so nice now that the shell and siding is done.