Adding Parapet to Bay window
Parapet on West Side
Lake Side nearing Completion
Roof almost done
Wednesday night - 8PM all swept off
Roofing Day - lots of people and equipment
Special Torched-On membrane, covered with light coloured capping
House looks big from here!
Ready for Concrete
Big Day - Concrete, Roofing and new Windows
Spreading Concrete (not a staged photo)
New Roof with Parapet covered
Ron putting finishing touches on floor
New Windows, ready to install
wiring a three way switch
Cut into building to support new beam for deck
Dave using new nail gun
New beam to support sagging deck .. worked out well !!
Start on Store Room
35 sheets of plywood for deck - a good load
Adding 1/2' plywood to entiredeck surface
Darryl relacing existing glass in all "wood" windows .. 22 panes in total
Living room sliding door removed, sill built up 3 inches
No more view from living room window (temporay!)
Getting truck ready to pick up windows .. rack removed, eyebolts added to back, cable straps to handle 7 foot load
Loading at HomeDepot in Omak, Washington
Leaving Home Depot
Shift of load, but made it back succesfully
Still fallen over in the morning
Ramps to slide doors up to deck
Job-site Injury
An easier way to lift the windows
New Sliding doors inside
New Sliding Doors
New Garage Doors - Hinges to come
Living Room to Deck Sliding Door
Living Room Slider - Inside -Plastic on until Stucco done
6' wide by 4' high hole cut for new west facing mountain/sunset window
Sunset/Mountain window in place - wrapper still on glass
New Dining area sliding door
New window from outside looking at west side of house
Dining Area Sliding door - Bronze Tinted sun reflecting glass
Downstairs front window
All windows in the front are now replaced!
Lights on both sides of balcony doors
First Blacony gone!
Balcony gone from Master BR
No more balconies .. careful opening those sliding doors!!
Front of House - Nov 8, 2010
Back of House - Nov 8, 2010
First new winow in "Kitchen Suite"
Dusk on Osoyoos Lake - Nov 8, 2010
Window on new covered deck
Window looking out onto covered deck
Looking at lagoon through new window
Two windows installed in "Kitchen" suite
New laundry room window - rain glass
New back door - from outside
Another great job by the truck - double door for front and double doors for storage room - tarp added after I got home
November 13 - Snow rapidly approaching - starting stucco install on Monday
Front door installed .. big job
Inside Front Doors
All the windows and doors in front are done
Storage Room with Window and doors
Nov 15th - starting to put paper and wire up for the stucco
Nov 16 -Nice colour, but a little hot in the Osoyoos Summer!
Grasses taking on Fall colours
House from back - Nov 18th
The last window installed! !!
With a forecast like this, probably nothing gets done in the coming week! It has to be warmer than this for the stucco scratch coat!
last of the vinyl siding - 902 lbs to the dump today
Xmas Lites to brighten up the night
Filling half the garage with outside furniture, kayaks, etc .. other half for the boat
Boat just fits with less than a foot to spare
Electrical panel installed and circuits started
Some kids cleared a skating rink on the lagoon
The House on December 3, 2010
Feb 14 - Stucco "scratch coat" going on
Feb 14 - getting there - still need some weather
Feb 16 - current colour choice favorite
Prep for Stairway Pad
Concrete Pad for new Staircase
Painting the stair stringers white !
The fans all lit up and spinning! Bring on the Singapore Slings!
Soffits started under the deck
New Stairs with landing in middle
Stucco Colours: Black top, grey band, then all white as lower section
Front of House - stucco done -- now we need the railings
Back of house - in the sunshine
Wiring Panel is full!
Dance Floor fully tiled
The Deck in Tile
The Landing with Angelo's Special Design
Front Entrance Way now re-tiled and straightened out
Coffee Set with Matching Tiles
The new workbench - made from back door
Tomorrow we gotta get organized !!
Railings arrive from Modern Times Aluminum in Surrey
Installing the Juliette Balconies
Amerdeep (right) and his crew
Front with railings
Back of house with Railings .. next the artificial turf and putting green
Ready for Artificial Grass and Putting green install
Cement and bricks to hold the crushed gravel ... building in the slope of the putting green
Crushed Graveldown and putting green unrolled
Beachside area with pipes for umbrellas
Seaming the two surfaces
Sanding the green to increase speed
View from beach
View from garage .. ready for play .. note the slopes on the green
Walkway at side of garage
New lights installed in front
Lotsa light at night!
