Randy working away!

Randy doing work... ;-)

Day 11 - oh boy - more rain

We had a very large storm that came through and unfortunately we did not have the tar paper down on the roof yet and the entire adition and the old kitchen were flooded. I have never seen so much rain....it was a mini Maine monsoon. So in the 1 day build project we have had rain on 8 of the days. last night and today we have wonderful sun!! So everything is slowly drying out and the rivers that popped up through out the property slowing down. 

So, not much work was accomplished besides we did get the tar paper on the roof last night and windows are done. The bathtub was also installed. 

Today the shingles are going on and the roof will officially be done. The doors will also be in and that will complete the "dry in" of the house. Most of us leave tomorrow. Joseph and Robert the caretaker are staying another week and a half to put up the siding and trim. Also the insulation. This will complete the 2008 phase I build. We have to wait for the house to dry out to be able to do any dry wall. We are hoping running the furnace through out the winter months will accomplish this and dry wall and the rest of the inside finishing work can be done in April of 2009! 

We had some wonderful island neighbors come by unexpectedly to volunteer and pitch in. They helped us with construction for a few hours and it was so wonderful and the family greatly appreciated their contribution. What a wonderful surprise! 

More to come at the end of today. 

The Big Idea Guy

The patio

Morning coffee on the new patio~

Check out these time lapse pics from Tommy Mhire

Please check out the below link for pictures that Tommy Mhire took while here helping. He has some time lapse pics that are very cool and show the progress early on in this extreme makeover. 

http://picasaweb.google.com/tmhire

Day 10 pics continued

Day 10

The interior walls are complete and windows and doors are going in. Joe is going to try to complete out the electrical so we can get the inspection complete in order to start placing the insulation. The roof plywood is half way done and Joseph will be completing the second half hopefully by the end of the day since it is going to start raining again later today and all day tomorrow. The ultimate Friday night goal is to have the place "dryed in". Jo-Fish has volunteered to stay a another whole week and work with our caretaker, Robert to finish out more work. We are going to contract out the drywall and roof shingles since we did not get to that phase of the project due to all the weather and unforeseen issues that had to be overcome along the way.