10-23-2009 - What did my old house look like?

This is a side view so that you can see the look of the completed roofline.


It was about 6:30pm on Friday night and these fellas were busting butt to try and get the last bit finished before the weekend. As if it needs explaining...this is a front view of the house! I had to go on the other side of the fence to get the whole house in one view! SWEET!


Side view from the other end of the house.


View from the side showing the two houses joined together under one roof line. It took them one day to place the trusses for the back half and the other end of the house and it has taken 3 days to do the rest. It took some serious engineering, but it is pretty cool!!

View from the back of the house...

We have seen some unbelievable progress this week. It is hard to even picture what the house looked like before! My hubby is the best to have designed this project!! I could have never imagined that our little 'ole house could be anything other than what it was. He is soooo talented!!

We are now PRAYING that it won't rain over the weekend. The framers finished up the roof tonight at about 7:30pm. They removed the chimney today and had to peel back some of the old shingles in order to set the trusses on the block wall. Even though there is OSB covering the trusses, it is NOT dried in! They covered it with plastic before they left, but I'm sure a good Florida rain would make for some roof leaks! Damon thought they would come out tomorrow and put the tar paper on, but the inspector has to come out and see the nails in the OSB before they can cover it with tar paper! No government work occurs on the weekend, so that'll get done on Monday and then they'll tar paper it and hopefully shingle it next week. Cox Communications is coming out tomorrow to move our phone/cable line...which should fix the phone problems we've had for the last 2 weeks. We also have it scheduled to do work on the plumbing and electrical next week, too!

Aside from the house, I'm getting excited for an upcoming week off! My sister and her family is coming to Disney World for the week. Unfortunately Damon can't get much time off, so we are only planning to drive down for the day to take Rylee to Magic Kingdom with them. I thought about staying a few extra day since I have the time off, but I don't want to stay in a hotel by myself and I can't afford the one they are staying at! Oh well...almost 6 months pregnant and a 2 year old will probably make the one day we are there PLENTY of time with Mickey. She is so excited. Damon pulled it up on the website yesterday and was showing it to Rylee. She was so amazingly excited! Damon said he actually got chill bumps from watching her get so excited!! She tends to be frightened of big characters, so I hope she doesn't freak out over all the Disney characters, but I think she'll have a good time regardless. At this point we plan to go on Friday...I'm gonna watch the weather and if it looks like rain, we may have to alter the plans.