2007_10_29 Bedroom storage, Dormer rafters, front & side flashing

Well, last week it rained almost all week and Steve and the crew didn't work much at all. They did work on Saturday, however, and were there again on Monday.

They worked on the dormer rafters today. They put up some end flashing and side flashing too.

Remember the low head room areas in the upstairs bedrooms that we have decided to enclose for storage space? There was a misunderstanding on what we decided and I didn't make it clear enough to Steve that when I asked him to take them out to 5 feet from the window area that I meant 5 feet toward the other end of the rooms and not to where it was 5 feet of head room!

It makes a difference of a little bit over a foot in how far they would go out into the rooms. Steve thought it was to be 5 feet of head room and that made it stick out about 6 feet out into the rooms. I need to re-calculate to see if we can give up another foot of room there and still get the furniture in.

The bad thing is that we'd lose some floor space, but it would give us more storage and there would be more room for the doors in them. He said they could move it without too much difficulty. I'll have to figure it again and let him know.

Below you can see one of the little storage areas from the side. We think we want the little doors to them to be on the sides, but if we have Steve move the end of them a foot or so closer to the lowest point near the window then it would offer the possibility of having a larger door to access the storage area. So, there are pros and cons both ways.



Below you can see that this one in bedroom B. Bedroom B is the one that is the larger bedroom which does not have the bath attached.

They have put on some green flashing on the front and sides. It is an evergreen color. I'm not sure where this color comes from. It is perhaps not the color of the roof we want, but so far Kathy hasn't shown us any roof color samples. We have always told her that we want a Hunter Green color or at least whichever name the color that is a fairly dark green is given by whomever is supplying the metal roofing.

We really need to be able to see the options before roofing is started so that we aren't surprised and Kathy doesn't end up having to change the order with the supplier whoever it ends up being!

The picture below is just to show the wiring that is going through the ceiling boards and goes down into the ceiling of the great room. They will be for lighting and a ceiling fan.

This is a view of the dormer's progress as viewed from the deck outside the dining room. Check out the pretty blue sky! It was a nice day today with temperatures in the 60s and no clouds at all.

Now that they have moved to the other dormer this is the view of their work. Dormer rafters up. Soon will come the ceiling boards, plastic, insulation, 2x4's, OSB boards, and felt before the metal roofing material.

Here is a view of the bathroom upstairs as seen from the loft. The door on the loft side is visible here.

Below you're looking through the loft bathroom door toward the other door that goes from the bathroom into bedroom A. The bathroom looks pretty big without any fixtures in it, but even afterward I think that it will be adequate.

OK, the picture below shows the flashing across the front where the siding meets the porch roof and the corner where the roof starts going up on the side. The front flashing sticks up a little bit (by design according to Steve) and then it gradually goes down so it will lay flat against the roof on the side where it goes up.

I need to find out a few things from Scott and Kathy. For example:

Steve says that he doesn't know how the air conditioning ducts will be run so that proper vents will be in the bedrooms, loft, bathroom upstairs since Scott and the AC people will need to tell him how that will be done. He says that it may require that the ceilings of the closets in those bedrooms be lowered so that the duct work and vents can go above them.

We also need to find out who is going to be doing the metal roof so we can see color samples to be sure we get the one we want.

We have not yet seen any of the hardwood floor samples to choose the color of stain that we want on the red oak floors.

I told Steve that I'd try to get up there again tomorrow after I have done some more figuring on the space upstairs so I can tell him whether we want him to move where the storage areas (low head room areas that we are having him wall off) begin so that there is more room for beds, furniture, etc or just leave it as it is.

Oh, yes, I told Steve today to just leave the foyer bathroom door where it already is (i.e. facing the foyer as opposed to facing the great room) since it really does LOOK better that way and we probably would not put anything along that wall (facing the foyer) anyway since it would stick out pretty far into the foyer unless it was a thin table (which we don't currently own!). We're going to leave it with the door facing the foyer.