Progress on the site

Mario, from our framing crew was coming on Saturday. So we got to the land on Thursday afternoon so we could spend all of Friday getting ready. We spent most of the day cutting boards to length and made a trip to Prescott to pick up the boards we were missing. Then we trimmed out the windows and installed the low bats using scraps from the back of the house.






On Saturday, we got a fourth estimate on site work. The bids ranged from under $500 to more than $4,500, which struck us as astonishing. The high bidder left a flier on our property. He came with a young man who wanted to bid on staining the house. He wanted to know whether we had a sprayer. Then he asked if we had a ladder.











Mario arrived about 7:30 and got to work installing the high boards above the windows, then what bats he could. Unfortunately, we were about 70 bats short. So the siding on the north and east sides is complete, but the south (front) and west will have to wait until we can get more material. At least all the boards are up.







Having done as much siding as materials allowed, Gerald and Mario got to work on the deck. That was great for two reasons: one was that having a deck that consists of more than sheets of OSB will increase our enjoyment of the property substantially. More practically, we need to get all of the lumber up off the ground in preparation for the site work.

Meanwhile, in preparation for the site work, I picked up our "boardwalk" and as many of the nails as I could find lying on the ground. I had gathered a shopping bag full by the time I was done.


Here's how the house looked by the end of the weekend. A big improvement over the Lowe's Tyvek look, don't you think?