Steve has completed the installation of the roof rafters in the Yoga Room! Also, he has put up one collar tie; the other will be placed once we determine the exact measurement of the closet. Right now the entire roof is just sitting on the walls of the room because as Steve placed the new rafters he removed the old, and the original attachment is now gone. He has temporarily secured the roof down at strategic places until he and Joel decide how to best solve this new challenge. Luckily the roof is very heavy...it is actually a roof built upon a roof, so we don't think it is going to shift or move. However, it has been incredibly windy lately:)
Joel and I go back and forth on which is the front of the house and which is the back. He considers the lakeside the front because he calls it "lakefront." I think that the front of the house is the side that faces the street, you know the side with the "front" door?! In any event, while Steve waits for Lenny to come back and finish the dining room chimney repair so he can build the kitchen walls, he has moved to the front part of the upstairs (I am sticking with my definition of front!) and built the walls for our reading room as well as the closet walls for each of the front bedrooms.
The absolute nicest thing happened late yesterday! After Joel and I met with the owner of a local heating and cooling company who presented his proposal for our job, we headed over to my parents house for happy hour. My dad had asked us to fill them in on what the plan was because he knew we were struggling with which way to go...forced hot and cool air, radiant heat in the floors, or base board heating and ducted cooling. Well, were we ever in for a big surprise. My folks offered to cover the entire cost of the HVAC installation! We accepted with hugs all around. Quite the happy hour indeed. Thank you so much mom and dad! Oh, and we have decided to go with baseboard heating, ducted cooling, and an AC mini-split to cool the Yoga and Rustic rooms.
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