The time between these posts seems to be increasing, and everything in this post is at least a week old, since we are in the middle of a two-week vacation. After the last post the rest of the interior door frames were installed. Picture 1 shows the frame for one of the pocket (sliding) doors — this one will be between the great room and the kitchen. Picture 2 shows the frame for one of the hinged doors. As they put these door frames up, they also hang the door; they then take the doors down to keep them from getting dirty or damaged. Picture 3 shows one of the mahogany, panel doors that we will use in most places.
With the door frames in place, the drywall installers were able to continue putting up the drywall on the walls. Picture 4 shows the completed walls in the master bedroom. They had almost completed the drywall before we left for vacation. Picture 5 shows the boxes of the joint-taping compound (often called “mud”) that they will use to finish the drywall installation.
There has also been progress on the outside of the house. Picture 6 shows that the insulation is now almost completely installed on the house. They have not completed this because they are waiting for the sheathing, called Densglass, that goes under the roof overhangs, shown in Picture 7; unfortunately, until this is in, they cannot install the top row of the insulation panels.
Picture 8 shows one of the installers using a very long sandpaper-covered block to smooth the joints between the insulation. Once the joints have been smoothed they can put up the base coat of the stucco. Because the garage apartment does not have any framed eves, there were able to do the base stucco coat there as shown in Picture 9.
Picture 10 shows the metal door that will be installed in the opening under the deck where the 10,000 gal water bag will go.
Our neighbor tells us that, in the week that we have been gone, they have almost finished all of the joint compound work. Also, the densglass sheathing for under the eaves is installed, and they are close to done with the base coat of the stucco on the house.
