Friday, January 1, 2016

We're done!!!

And by done I mean that we successful passed our final building inspection!!

Along with getting the siding done, we had to finish the installation of our hand rails. Both on the stairs to the basement that I have talked about before but also on our 100 year stairs from the main floor to the second floor. 

As required, here is the railing I installed on said stairs. Fancy eh?!




After noting the high quality of the railings I installed, the building inspector inquired "you are keeping these right?". "Of course" I replied... below are the pictures of Penny helping me take the basement railing down the following day.


 And this is the fire that I made using the wood from the railings...



And finally, the ceremonial burning of the building permits. After 262 days of construction, it was a very satisfying activity to be sure!

One last post to come, an overview of the project, then my blogging days are over :)



Siding, it's done, finally.

Well to be fair it was done on Dec 17th, I'm just getting around to writing about it. It took far longer to install than I, or the installers, thought it would. But we are happy with the outcome. Actually, I'd be happy with pink ceramic tiles instead of Typar at this point...