The Inside at Last.....

Getting close to the final pieces of the house over the last couple of weeks.  Tile, cabinets, paint and fixtures are being finalized.

In these shots you'll see the floors being tiled along with one shot of the master bath getting shower tile.

Our beautiful Neil Kelly kitchen is getting it's final touches this week and you can see that partial installation below as well. 

Tile wrapping around dining room wall to office

Floor tile partially in in living room

Final floors in and grouting

I'll expand on all these items in a later post, but wanted to get a few things up during the process.

Paul looking happy about the cabinets being installed  :)

Full view of the kitchen looking toward the dining room

Right Bank of our New Neil Kelly Kitchen

Master Bath Shower and wall tile

New Skin on the House

1st coat of stucco on the front of the house.

Finished rear patio...windows and stucco.

Front stucco complete.

Well.....just a quick update here to share the completion of the exterior stucco.  We had to do alot of new exterior wall replacement after adding insulation and new windows.  Now everything is patched in and ready for paint !  Check out the process above.

The 'Cool' Roof

Welcome Back !  We are moving steadily toward our expected move in date of December 1, 2010.  The next series of photos all deal with our new roof system and the insulation we added to help the house to be more efficient.

The first couple of photos are of the old roof stripped off to the original tongue and groove planking that acted as roof and finished ceiling.  That isn't must insulating value between you and the 115 degree temps in the summer, so we decided to up the ante a bit.

The third picture shows the rigid foam insulation foam being delivered to the house.   The insulation comes in 4' x 8' panels.  Rather than put down 4" slab of insulation, we decided to offset 2 layers of 2.5" and 1.5" alternately and stagger the seams to help prevent thermal transfer through the panels.

After the insulation is secured down to the decking, it is covered with a membrane type cool roofing material called Fibertite.  The seams are overlapped on the roofing material and heat-welded together to form a water tight seal.  In addition to being the perfect color to reflect the sun, the new insulation gives us approximately a R-25 in terms of insulating value to help keep those cooling and heating bills down !

Next up....finishing the stucco outside

Bare Roof Deck

New larger fascia on the front of the house to accomodate the new insulation.

Insulation being delivered.

1st layer of rigid foam going down on the roof deck.

2 layers of insulation being covered by Densdeck material

Rolling out our cool Fibertite roofing material

Almost done !  Future stands for solar power