I haven't blogged much about the house the last few days, but not because I haven't been busy, but because I've been up there too much to have time to blog! (Along with getting the machine shop in the current house squared up. More about that in a later entry.)
We went up Wednesday evening to see how the interior finish work was going. The garage doors were in place! Hurrah!
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Door frames, a subject of some struggle a few days earlier, all looked good. These are the double doors leading into bedroom three, and the door leading into bathroom three.
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This, however, was the extraordinarily boring window sill--not at all what we were supposed to get. Fortunately, Scott hadn't nailed any of them in place.
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This led to a mad scramble to figure out what the correct molding was for the window sills to match the tasteful sills in our current house--more about that later in this entry.
Out in the garage--what is this football-sized object? Thats a Grundfos pressure pump. Ordinarly, these are big monsters, because they contain a 30-120 gallon tank. We have 1400 gallons as the backup, so all we need is this cute little gadget.
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This gadget is a particulate filter put in by the well pump guys. We are going to have a whole house lead filtering system (ANSI standard 53 compliant) go in series with this. More about that in a few days.
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On the other side of the furnace there's a pipe that comes out of the wall, and then goes back into the wall. Scott tells us that the building codes now require that houses be plumbed for a water softener. Our current house was not plumbed for one--and when I asked what it would cost to install a water softener, I was quote about $1000--largely because the plumbing wasn't there.
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Next to the meter there is now a gas pipe fitting sticking up out of the ground. This is where the backup generator will connect.
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On Saturday morning, I ran over to Franklin Building Supply (who supplied the door frame moldings) and tried to find a matching sill. Nope! The bottom part, a corbel sort of thing, was the same as the header molding on the doors--but the top of the sill was produced with a router table, and was not a standard item. So at lunch, we took pizza and Cokes to Scott's hard working team (much of it is his family, because of a shortage of available construction workers) to see what he could offer us.
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Those two pieces are wood really aren't different router bits, and different patterns, although I could barely see it. It makes my wife happy, and that's what matters. We had some neighbors in San Jose, Dick and Anna, who were building a new house--and they doing much of the construction themselves. They told us that they had read that one out of four couples building a home get divorced, and one out of seven having a home built for them get divorced. I don't know if those figures are still true or not, but I guess this can be stressful if the two of you have markedly different tastes.
Not only are the garage doors in, but the automatic garage door openers, as well.
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Great view out the front--it almost looks like you could just drive off a cliff. Actually, you could. We are going to put up some boulders (of which we have many) at the edge.
Last house project entry.
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