2008_04_17 Windows, Garage Door, Water pipes buried

This entry shows a lot of different things taken on 04/17th.

Below is a view from the master bedroom window looking toward the southwest down the mountain, but you can't see far now from there since the leaves have started coming back in the week or so before this was taken.



You can see in this one how the upstairs bedrooms have siding on both sides of the walls. There isn't any insulation between them here since it's an inside wall and isn't one that we chose to insulate for soundproofing purposes.


You can see in the next one how the motor to the jetted tub upstairs is framed so that the 2 x 4's are wide enough to allow access to the motor should it need to be repaired or replaced. The end of the tub will have a wall that is the side of a cabinet for linens, etc that sticks out as far as the tub (which is 44 inches I think) and which will have a removable piece in it that will serve as a door providing access to this motor. The cabinet will be pretty deep, but we figure that it's better to have more space than less.

The basement picture below shows (to the left) the correct garage door, the missing middle exit door (that has been boarded up for now till the door comes), the garage door in the background which is a temporary door so that we can lock the place up while they replace it with a new one like the one that was damaged in shipment, and one of the two garage door opener motors.

Here is the path of destruction that was created when the water pipes had to be buried to get to the house from the bottom of the hill where the pipes from the water meter stop. The plumber used a machine that ended up cutting or pushing over trees and brush in a path that was probably 10 feet wide! I couldn't be there that day so I didn't see it, but I believe that Patton would have been proud to have such a machine from the way it blazed a trail through the woods. I took pictures of the entire path, but it took about 7 or 8 to follow the entire "road" from the starting point to the back of the house where the water goes into the house.

From the outside this is a view of the "correct" garage door. They are going to be what I'd call chocolate brown although there may be a name that the garage door place gives them that's not as descriptive!


Here between the two garage doors is an example of the outside electrical outlets that are on all sides of the house outside. They are also in a chocolate brown color. I'm holding this one open so you can see the wonderful stuff inside! Aren't you thrilled?


How good are your eyes? Can you see the little white square that's up on the wall close to the center of this picture? It is the outside cover of the exhaust fan that's in the upstairs bathroom. We'll need to get it painted brown later so that it doesn't stick out so much.