Stucco Color!

Finally, we have colored stucco. A couple days after the stucco was finished, the soffit and fascia was finished. The color of the stucco is Dryvit Spectrum Brown and the soffit and fascia is black. I think it looks really good, on the other hand I may have just made it black inspite of everyone telling me I shouldn't. Now that it's done, we can play monday morning quarterback. Everyone who thinks it looks great say "Yea" and those who thinks it is aweful say "Nay." Those who are indifferent are cursed to a life of indecisiveness.

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Some Stucco

Finally, some something has happened on the exterior. The first pic is where they waterproof the house and put some foam around the windows for decoration. The second pic is the rough coat for the stucco. They put the color on yesterday, but I didn't get there soon enough to see it in the light.

Stair Building

Here we are building the stairs that go up to the bonus room. The nice millwork on the side of the stairs is the first handrail/guardrail that I have ever built. I'm doing ok, but I'm sure anyone else could do it faster. It took me two nights to get where it is.

No pictures?

For some reason, my pictures are not uploading. For the past month we have insulated, installed drywall, done the drywall texture, installed the finish trimwork, put stucco on the exterior, and prepared for paint. We should have soffit, fascia and gutter installed by the end of the week and the whole house should be primered.
I ordered the locksets for the doors, picked up a fridge, hood, range, and a dishwasher. The cabinets are ordered and we picked out the wood colors and paint colors. Things are moving along, too bad I can't get my pictures to upload.

I'm always playing catch up

For those who are critical that I don't show anyone on this blog, there is my bro, obviously not posing for the pic. We have insulated and the sheetrockers are well on their way. The front port has finally been framed correctly and the front door was installed. It's a big front door, 3 1/2' by 8' tall. Most front doors are 3' wide by 7' tall. This will make it easier to bring big furniture into the house. My sheetrockers are probably illegal immigrants because whenever I ask them to do something they say "Ce, Ce!!" and then they don't do it. Maybe I am assuming that if you can't speak any english that you are not a green card holding immigrant. Am I wrong to assume this?

A Four Way to be Proud of

Oh yeah, thats my furnace room. Women can have their kitchens and bathrooms and living rooms and sewing rooms and whatever. This is a man room. What you see is the guts and the glory of any house. On the left is two 50 gallon water heaters, in the back is a 96.6 percent variable speed furnace and you can't see the gas distribution, water distribution or electrical distripution panel, but trust me, it is quite the setup.
We got the 4 way inspection last week (mechanical, electrical, plumbing, framing) and passed with flying colors. Well, almost. It seems my free labor plumber (my dad) flunked his drainage test. We had 4 leaks and we only filled up 15% of the system with water. We had to drain the water quick because if it froze in the pipes, we would have major problems. I have a reinspection tomorrow, I'm crossing my fingers. The inspector gave us the go ahead with insulation last week, so we insulated on Tuesday. I'll have to take some pictures of it before drywall is installed on Tuesday.
I'm in Las Vegas today and for the next week I will be supervising the construction of a house/Disneyland Resort. The superintendent has to leave for a couple days and I am filling in. Here is a link to that house www.piratescovelv.blogspot.com if you have a couple minutes to check it oug. It's a pretty incredible job. Maybe one day I can have waterslide in my backyard.