What a difference a day makes

The people who do the siding were out bright and early yesterday. Actually they have been out bright and early the past several days, but had nothing to do. For whatever reason there was a delay in getting the material delivered for the next several steps. The framers had to come back out a few times to correct some things: putting missing headers up, putting an angle in a ceiling, replacing two 2 x 4s with one 4 x 4, replacing two cracked trusses in the utility room, etc.

Yesterday though, the workers managed to plywood and tar paper all of the exterior walls, plywood 90% of the roof, install the windows, and put in the cornice and fascia. We are still waiting on the temporary exterior doors, and our utility room door. The utility room door is a pocket door which needs to be installed before sheetrock stage.

Here are some pictures from yesterday

Front
of house Left side (far left window is our bathroom and other two windows are our bedroom. The vast expanse in between is MY closet!)


Rear of the house. You may say, "Amanda and Rich, you don't have any windows? How can that be?" Well, the answer is twofold. One, the view from the back of the house is very unglamorous. Actually, all you'll see is the garage. Second, the den, is now the "Media Room". We are putting in two rows of theater lights on dimmers and purchasing a big screen TV. That is actually the only room in the house that doesn't have a window (except, I suppose for the hall bathroom). The window to the far left of the picture is in the utility room.
This is the right side of the house. Window locations from left to right are front living room, guest bedroom, and guest bedroom.
This is me in one of the guest rooms.
Ongoing demolition.