Water, water everywhere....

We have a well....with 100 gallons per minute! No problem running a geothermal heat pump....at all.....lol...

And Charlie changed all the door openings today and two of them are in....one more to go. Had to order the handles for the French doors at Home Depot online, since no one here carries the dummy handles. So it is all coming together again. If only we didn't have those backward steps.

Should have known...

...things were going too smoothly. HVAC, Electrician and Plumber will all be coming in the next little while. The plumber might be harder to get in, as he is super busy, and is really just doing our house as a favour for a friend. Our second plumber also moved out West (as did our first), so he arranged for this guy to do the job. No big deal, and nice of him to arrange it rather than leave us high and dry.

Here's the problem. You can see all the windows are in, but not the doors. Hmmm...wonder why? Maybe because the doors don't fit!? They are all 1 inch bigger (wider and taller) than the dimensions on the spec sheet from the building supply store! And while that might not seem like a big deal it is especially problematic in the basement, where we already had problems with the height of the headers....sigh....plus it means backtracking and redoing work that is already done.

And still no word on our second draw...not sure if the CMHC inspector was back and did his report or not...will have to try and chase that info down tomorrow....before we run out of money!

Adam Ramsay, the well driller, was up today to check things out...a couple of "adjustments" to the landscape (we'll be calling you again Jane!) and he is coming on Thursday to drill the well. We want to make sure we have enough water pressure before we install the geothermal heat pump.

The upstairs windows are in, as are some of the downstairs ones. Gary took a couple of pics, but I was away, so there are no pics of today's work crew...Shawn (Birder), Mike (Kronk) and Chris (Walshie). So for those of you who wanted to see a picture of Kronk at work, you're outta luck...haha....

Windows to our world...

The windows came today. :) And will go in tomorrow! One was broken, but Kent's is going to send someone to replace the glass, since it was broken before we ever got it.

LOVE the big kitchen window...there are no upper cabinets on the river side...just the view. And Charlie put in the "porthole" today at the end of the upstairs hallway, just so we could see one window in! :)

Glad we bought shingles before the price jump this week!


Pondering something important...


Bonus room over garage...

New pics soon--I promise!

The roof is on the garage and the front is in the process of being shingled. Windows and doors go in on Saturday.

Of course, there always have to be headaches, right? We requested an inspection for early next week from CMHC so we can get the next draw. We chose next week on purpose...so that the windows/doors would be in and would be included in the draw. Well, guess who was there today...the inspector! So he would do his report and we would get the money up to date--which does NOT include the windows--and then they arrive tomorrow and by the time we get the money we owe for them too!! gaah!!! I have a call in and hopefully they call back tomorrow and we get it straightened out....*sigh*

Thank you...

..to Uncle Aub for the lend of his trailer and my big brother Andy for his truck so we could pick up our floors and save the shipping and brokerage fees. I meant to put this in the post about our trip, but now it gets it's very own post! :)

If it isn't the rain....

...it's the sun! lol Started shingling today, but after three rows the nail gun quit. But it was too hot anyway...walking on the shingles in this heat would mark them, so the guys quit early today. School starts Monday, so Gary will help when he can, but Charlie will be a one-man-show most of the time.