A break in the rain

It's been raining a lot this week, so not much work got done on Monday or Tuesday.  Wednesday was beautiful, and today we just skirted the edge of a giant storm, so there were a lot of people swarming over the house, trying to make progress before it starts pouring again.  The trim guys moved around to the back of the house, so they wouldn't interfere with the porch framing guys, who just got started in the front!

The basic frame of the porch deck is up, and the columns are started.  The boxed-in part of the columns will get a layer of durarock around them, which will then be the base for the stone veneer.  The bluestone caps will go on top of the boxes, and the rest of the posts will continue up to support the roof beams.

The current view of the front of the house with the new bases of the porch columns.

The attic dormer is now the only piece of roof without soffit covering.

The trim work around the front bathroom window did not turn out like our drawing indicated.  It happened for several good reasons having to do with how the boards actually fit together in 3D, and how they were trying to mask the fact that none of the tops of our upstairs windows quite line up with each other.  After sitting around with Tony in the front yard, sketching on a piece of plywood, we came up with a better way to do it that preserves the intention of the drawing, which was to make this little square part of a bank of three equal squares, and to visually bump it out from the rest of the trim boards.  The guys working on the trim are going to get back around to this window, tear off what they did, and do it over.

The fascia boards and soffits are all finished and looking sharp.

Most of the windows are now trimmed out in new Azek PVC boards, and the sills replaced.  There is still a bit of extra moulding detail to go onto the windows.

The new window upstairs is getting its finishing touches, and looks so much better than the old one.  This section of wall is still completely encased in plastic sheeting on the inside, so we haven't had a chance to look through it yet!