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Halfway Through the Project Home Tour
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" Here in the kitchen family area, we'd had delay-causing factor. These triple-mullioned windows that were supposed to put in here, we found out they were ordered with regular glass along the bottom. The way these windows are designed, the bottoms are actually awning windows that crank out and then the top 2/3 of the window is fixed glass. Well, if you have glass that's operable or fixed with 18 inches of a floor, it has to be tampered, so there's a delay there. Another problem is the flooring. The old part of the house had oak flooring in place for which you see battered up against the old wall here and if we wanna add oak flooring to the rest of this area, the new addition space. You really have to weave it back in which means cutting out every other piece practically, very labor-intensive. So the owners haven't decided what to do about that. This entire section of the house which had 2 little bedrooms in it was meant to be left undisturbed and in fact, this bedroom has not been touched, but this room which was their little boy's room, unfortunately, the window had to be moved about a foot and a half in order to accommodate the farmer's porch roof that was built on the other side of the house. So, these are the little unforeseen things that when they're---- you know, when you're in the midst of construction can delay the project. Now, this downstairs bathroom will also be their laundry area and we're getting far along here too. We've just finished installing another one of these acrylic tub-shower combinations which saves you 'cause you don't have to do any ceramic tile work and even has the grip bar in place already and you just put your dry wall right up to it. And then, I guess, most of the plumbing waste from the upstairs bath is now completed. You can see all this piping comes straight right down here to go through to the basement and they've done a nice job of filling in with foams, so that there won't be any draft coming up through there. Well, let's go and take a look upstairs. Alright, well, here on the second floor we'll take a look at the master bath and bedroom area in a minute. This is the area of the, well, I call it a great room. It's the living room and of course, we have this bridge area so that you've got this enormous height. We finished the installation in there last week. They've been working on the installation in this room, which is the owner's home office and it's a fair-sized room. They haven't completed it yet. If you'll look over here on the eave of the shed dormer, you'll see the venting dock that's in place, so that we can have air from outside coming through the eaves to ventilate the attic space and come right out of the ridge. And of course, we've installed this casement window. You have 2 of them in this room giving you a view of the lake, Lake [unk]. Because it's a work space, the lighting is a real important requirement and if you look overhead we've got these recessed cans right up against the installation. You can do that now and I count 8 in here. So, it's gonna be a nice bright room to work in. Let's take a look at the other end and go into the master's suite. Okay, now the bedroom here and the bathroom are all ready for plaster and this bedroom is almost there, but I just wanted to show you a couple of a last minute detail that have gone in such as this triple door setup onto the deck out here. This is a wooden door on the inside and it's vinyl clad on the outside, so that you don't have to worry about maintenance at all and then, this is what really makes this house, the location, the view of the lake, the breeze is that you're getting all the time, but I wanted to give you a look at our roof, which is now complete and one of the most important details of the roof of course, is up with the ridge you see that strong black [unk]. What we have there is the ridge vent which then has asphalt shingles on top of it. That works together with the vent that's down here, the soffit vent which is this strip of aluminum that you see here, so that you get a thermal current running through above the rafters there, so that you never have moisture building up where the insulation is."