Atlanta weather has been absolutely uncooperative.
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| Seriously -- this has been our forecast for weeks! |
We've had 41 inches of rain at the halfway point of 2013, which apparently is a record. Somehow, we are still on schedule anyway, and once our "shell" is intact, our project -- and our timeline -- will be fairly impervious to the whims of meteorology!
Our roofers are hoping for a brief respite today so that they can complete the roof....but I'm not optimistic.
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An adhesive tar-like membrane acts as our sub-roofing currently.
The PVC will sit atop this surface -- I'm told this is a belt-and-suspenders roof!
This view also shows off the butterfly roof -- higher on the edges, depressed in the center. |
At any rate, the frame is essentially completely finished, and there's a "wrap" on that -- a cursory water barrier, I'm told.
This week windows arrived (well, most of them) and they are being installed rapidly. Today -- weather permitting -- the roof installers will complete the PVC membrane roof. The garage roof will be a zinc metal roof. That will be installed later.
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| Front entryway. |
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| Big window in the office...provides majestic vista to the crumbling rental next door. |
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| Frosted window in the garage. |
The innards are also being installed -- what are referred to as "rough ins" in the trade. The HVAC -- heating/vents/A-C -- and electrical and plumbing which occur behind the walls are all being installed this week, into next week.
Upcoming tasks:
1. Finish windows -- sliding glass doors to arrive later....someone apparently screwed up the order, so they didn't arrive.
2. Complete HVAC, and bring in AC unit, water heaters, etc for the mechanical room.
3. After windows and roof are in, and rough-ins are complete, we get our inspection by the city.
4. After inspection, spray-foam insulation of the entire house -- apparently a stinky, nasty undertaking.
5. After that, drywall can begin! Cara states that once drywall is started, you're essentially 60 days from move-in.
