Day 22

Oct 14th

The rains has subsided and everything is getting back to normal. The house survived the storm, foundation held (well, at least as much as the old foundation - there was some water leakage, but no more than other parts of the building where the water puddled), and we're ready to get moving again!!

The plastic stayed on the house throughout the windy storm.

Flooded areas have dried up, but we definitely need to use some piping during the heavy rains to keep the water away from the house.

BTW - take a good long look at the old shingled roof - this is the last time you will see it!!!

The tree in all it's glory! Looks like we'll need to have those branches trimmed in a little.

The wind was still whipping around a little on Wednesday evening.

The new sun tunnels are here, the sun tunnels are here!!

One of the nice things about putting a bathroom together yourself is that you can do a little thing called "blocking". Garth and I walked around the bathrooms while I described where all the towel/toilet and other hanging fixtures would go. He then had his guys "block" those areas, so that when we screw in the racks after the drywall is put on, we are screwing into solid wood (check out the picture below). Nice little feature, as we had issues with the towel rack coming off the wall in our last bathroom, as it was only held up by drywall.