Week 7

Now the details are beginning to be filled in. Inside the house, the electrical and plumbing work is proceeding, which is all essential but doesn't really photograph well so you'll just have to imagine yards and yards of shiny copper pipes, and electrical wire snaking along the ceiling and walls into where the new vanities, showers, light switches, power sockets and smoke alarms will go.

My lovely new Kohler bath with fancy overflow drain;
the rough shower plumbing is installed. 

The flush mechanisms and frame for one of the WCs

New hole in Felix's closet to access the bath drain

The inspector from the Department of Water and Power came by to tell us where we could put our electrical panel/breaker box. We were given 2 choices: outside the bedroom all the way over to the east side of the house, which will cost a whole lot more in very expensive cabling, or the shortest distance, on the west side outside the family room. This will require us to have our big old shade tree thinned and trimmed, also an added expense but not as high. We're scheduling that for next week when Jim comes back from his Helsinki business trip.

We'll need clearance from the top of the pole...

...down to the mast on the roof (left).

Above, you can also see the posts for the patio have been placed into the 5-foot deep shafts ("Just like Minecraft!" - Felix), and the sand for under the concrete has been delivered (under the white plastic sheeting). There are now two vents in the attic (silver rectangles under the eaves).

On Saturday morning, we stopped by the house and when we came back in the evening, we had a new door from the kitchen to the garage!

Earlier in the week, I gave Felix a Sharpie and let him doodle on the wall.

View from the garage side.

Now that this door is here, we're going to have to figure out where we're going to put our serving dishes, cocktail glasses and formal dinnerware which were in a credenza all along this space. There might be space for a tall, narrow cabinet just to the right of the door.