The porch roof goes on

Hello everyone.  Its been a very busy week with the porch constuction--Mike has made huge progress and the roof is now on and they're getting things ready for the winter.  On Monday Mike and his crew will start on the roof over the oak room to get that buttoned up before the winter--that's an area where there has been some leaking in the past so we're anxious to get that tightened up.  Here are some photos to give you an idea of what things look like now:

Tuesday quick update

Just a couple of quick photos from the work here today.  A beautiful day to be in the Boston area.

                            And a HEARTY 13th birthday celebration for our "little" girl

The pumpkins get ready

Here are some pictures of the kids getting ready for one of their favorite "holidays".

Caleb's update 10-24-10

Howdy, everyone! Good week here at the farm, roofers finishing a section of roof in a seemingly impossible period of time.                                                      

starting work!

roof all stripped down, ready for the new shingles!

roof is finished in four hours YAY!!! 

                                                                                  

Also the farm's green trees are changing color and dropping their leaves ready for their winter hibernation.

                                                                           

Progress this week...October 18-22

A lot of progress was made this week on our "new" front porch!  The deck has been framed and now the roof preparations for the porch are being made.

To help orient you, here's a picture of the "front" of the house, the view coming up the driveway.  You can see from a distance where work is going on for the new porch:

Here are the workmen standing on the little roof above the Oak Room...at this point, they have removed the window in Audubon in preparation for raising the roof a bit which they have to do in order to put on the porch roof.  There will eventually be two new windows here, but they will be shorter to accomodate the roof's height.

Scaffolding of sorts....

Now they're building up the roof over the Oak Room!

The weather has been pretty chilly, but our contractor and his small crew don't seem to mind.  At least they have a great view from up there!

Soon to appear...roofers!  Several sections of the overall roof need to be replaced.  The shingles are here, and the roofers have been waiting for a stretch of dry weather!  They are due here tomorrow...

Until next time!  Laura (photos by Caleb)

Scott Update 10/14

Sorry for the lack of updates of late--things have been a bit busy around here.  Mike and crew have been hard at work as you'll see from the pictures below.  The deck subfloor is going on and they've staged a temporary scoffolding structure to work on attaching the roof of the deck to the house.  A large truck, complete with forklift, dropped off a tractor trailer load of wood today. 

Work on the roof has not started yet as Mike needs a clear window of weather, something we havent had now in a couple weeks.  It's suppose to rain tonight into tomorrow so they wont be able to start that tomorrow either.  The extended weather forcast looks good for a potential start there on Monday.  We'll keep you updated.

Update from Scott

We arrived home today to find Mike and a coworker hard at work.  As I hadnt been here since Friday morning there was much new to see.  The cement was poured for the footings last Thursday and the base of the deck (as you'll see in the pictures below) has started to go in.  Getting this level is the most important part of this piece of constuction so Mike and Gerry were spending extra time today making sure all is plumb and level.  Tomorrow they'll be back at it and will also have a crew up on the roof replacing the area over Suite 60 (the area right above the carport for those unfamiliar with the names of the bedrooms here). 

Michael Wang had 8 EIGHT! kitchen/back of house options for us to look over this weekend.  With every options that was presented we declared that one our favorite--in other words we loved them all and  will be hard pressed to choose a direction.  A big piece of the decision tree for us has to do with what we do with the back wing--whether we take it down entirely and rebuild something much smaller back there (but have to deal with capping the old foundation/space) or if we take down the second level and use the existing footprint for a family room off the back.  We'll try to get those plans up here so people can weigh in with their thoughts and make it a "vote" of sorts.
                                      Mike and crew pouring cement including where the stone wall will be

   
                                             The cement mixer offloading

                                                           View back along the house

                                                       Mike's staging area

                                    Tough to see/read but here is one option we particularly liked.

Caleb's update 10-7

Hello everyone. Today the workers and the excavator were here filling in the holes for the porch footings. Tomorow the cement mixer is going to be here pouring the foundationYEAH!!! Here are a few pics of the work today.

getting ready to fill in

filling in the footings

  



Scott's update

Just got home to find some HUGE piles of dirt out front and some equally deep holes that were dug today for the footings of the new deck.  I knew that they'd put those suckers deep but I didnt know that they'd dig a 4x6 foot hole down several feet for each of them.  Tough to get a sense of the holes from the pics below but they're big.  And they did all of this today on a particularly raw day--50 degrees and raining sideways.  In any case lots happening here and more expected in the way of activity tomorrow.  Till then enjoy the pics below..........

                                                    One of the 7 or 8 holes dug today