It's been a while...

Been a while since we've updated the blog...

 

As you'll see from the pictures we are all buttoned up for the winter, and have even decorated a bit!  The roof has been shingled, we've added a front door, and a nicer set of stairs, and B has been busy doing inside stuff and finishing up the framing of the attic, closing off where it connects to the master bedroom.  We have also gotten the electrical set up and ready for hook up. As you'll see in the pictures below, it was quiet a task and disruption to our yard. Ha!

Here are a few pictures of the line we trenched for our electric to run from the street to the house.  Currently our power lines are running above ground (quiet the eye sore)  so we decided with the new house we would run them below ground.  We started this project on a sunny Sunday morning, as you can see B starting by the house and electric box on the house...  me giving the machine a try...look close this was our second trencher.  Yes, we broke the first one.  Well we didn't break it, it broke on it's own, we just happen to be using it.  So by 12 noon, we had a new machine and kept trenching away.  By 8:30pm B finally finished up in the dark. This trenching is quiet a task!!  It's not as easy as it looks and it takes 
FOR-EV-ER!!!! By the time B was finished running the cable & electric in the trench the ground had started freezing and it was a ton of work to get the dirt back into the hole as we were chipping away at the frozen ground.  B and I both agree that, trenching definitely goes down in the list of jobs that have NOT been fun with this house project!  

Once we finished trenching, our yard looked like we had an animal problem!!  

                             

                             
           

           Our temporary door and new steps!  

Fire blocking complete throughout the whole house.  This helps prevent fire from spreading up through the walls quickly.  "Fire blocking in stud walls is required in wood framed buildings to stop draft in cavities between framing members.  These spaces can create drafts that will allow the fire to spread readily if not dealt with.  In other words, these cavities can act like the flu on a fireplace."

Finally, finishing up the day of fire blocking... a good days work!  Great job B!