Cottage day 41

The cottage is moving along nicely, with the porch poured and the roof fixed. The outside is complete. The only thing left is to landscape the outside and of course to finish the inside. Our concrete guy poured the porch last Friday week. Last Saturday, the construction manager came down from Kentucky and repair the leak between the main roof on the front porch. It rained yesterday, and yeah, no more leaks.

Mike and I have been working long hours framing the walls and ceiling joists in the interior of the cottage. All of the walls are now in place and we finished putting up the ceiling joists last Thursday. We spent two days blocking and bracing. The ceiling joists are now braced in a true vertical fashion. The interior walls are now secured to the floor and hurricane clips have been placed throughout the structure.
We rented a Ram-set, which is a tool that uses small charges, 22 caliber, to drive nails through the bottom plate of the walls and into the concrete. I drove 100 nails using this tool and my right-hand is a little sore this morning.

We are now ready for the trades, and the plumbers arrived yesterday afternoon to begin their top out. The top out is the second stage in the plumbing in which the plumbers placed the shower and tub and stub out the water and the drains. The vent stacks are also connected and extended through the roof.
The air conditioning representative came out yesterday showed us where the return air vents were to be. Some of the interior walls had to be modified and blocked to facilitate the return air ducts. The placement of the furnace was also discussed and some modifications in the attic had to be made. A portion of the attic was decked to accommodate the furnace and the water heater and more decking is needed.

Last Friday, Mike installed the lighting cans in the kitchen and both bathrooms. He also installed vents for the bathroom. Now all the electrician has to do is wire them. Hopefully, the plumbers will be through and we can get electrician in towards the end of the week.

The air-conditioning guys are very busy. The next scheduled available time is August 20. They have promised that they will try to get in earlier if they can. That was the reason for the visit from the AC guy yesterday. In a way, this is a blessing in disguise, in that the condensation drain and the placement of the furnace will be will be ready when AC guys are.

I know it's been a while since I posted, but a lot of the work that's been done recently doesn't show. A lot of this work is for structural purposes and pictures can't show the change. Hopefully things will become more visible in the near future and the pictures will show the change.

Tata for now.