Ted from Rocket Jones asked in a comment to the post bellow how our construction project is progressing. I left a comment in response to the relevant portion of his which made me my own 500th commenter. I'll give myself a prize later. I decided that since I hadn't done a construction update in a while I'd answer that question in a post of its own.

Progress has been very slow of late. When we made the decision to reside the entire house it was more cost effective to have our contractor remove the existing siding than to have the siding guys do it. So they focused on that for a while.

There has been some progress. The removed an existing wall in the house and replaced it with what will the wall of the new bedroom. But, because of the state of the addition they have not opened up the door yet to keep the children. Something about all the dangerous tools lying about and the fact that there are no windows just big holes in the walls. I guess they thought that would be a problem or something.

As it stands now, the house is 99% ready for siding - the contractor who was on vacation last week will be back - so the next two weeks should damn well better see some serious progress. When this starts happening, I'll break out the digital camera and start posting some more photos.

Thanks for asking.

UPDATE: The prize turned out to be take out from my favorite Chinese restaurant.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 03:53 AM | No Comments | Add Comment