Moving on Up

The rain held out for Jim’s crew today. By the time we stopped by at lunch, they had already put down the subfloor on the second level, as well as the carrying beam, which will actually go in between the first floor ceiling and second level flooring.


Jim Delaney actually had us up on the roof, I mean, FLOOR, of our second level, pointing out where various windows, walls and closets would go. Amazing how quickly things are moving!


View from top of stairs down to the front door at 1pm:

In the photo above, you can see the old fiberglass insulation in between some of the beams. Guess who accidentally stepped there and not on the subfloor? Good thing I had a light lunch - or else I could have ended up in our dining room. Not joking.

We had a 5pm meeting with our personal kitchen cabinet/island designer Janet Desimone at Home Depot in Danvers, who, by the way, is the most helpful Home Depot employee we have ever encountered (more on the kitchen island we decided on in a future post - we're going one level, folks!). So we didn't do our end-of-day driveby until it was almost dark (no wine this time). The guys had added in an extra stair at the top of the staircase (the space created by the enclosed carrying beam required it) and covered the entire floor decking with rubber rolled roofing. As Kel explained, that will protect it against any rain that might come (which it did at around 8pm). Jim and his guys will build the walls on top of the rubber, then once the house is roofed, he will cut away the remaining rubber material.

Ol' Salt Wall at 7:30pm:


We're quickly becoming big fans of JD Builders. Check out the mailbox they jerry-rigged for us. Now only if the mailman would actually leave us our mail...and if the rain would stop by 7am.