Murasaki99 ([info]murasaki99) wrote,
@ 2008-07-30 07:29:00
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Entry tags:home improvement

Siding
The exterior siding is done. More photos to come when I get a spare minute. This shot shows the siding about 7/8ths complete on the back side of the house.

Still some cleanup stuff to be done in the yard, but not too bad, really. The work crews have tried to keep the mess down, although they managed to tidy away the sewer clean out cover somewhere, and I may have to ask the contractor to get a new one. -__-



And the city has passed the electrical work, so the interior drywall work can begin, yay!


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[info]queenriley
2008-07-30 04:32 pm UTC (link)
Oh look at the nearly finished! That's awesome! It really does look great. Amazing to see... from torn down mess of rubble to THIS.

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[info]murasaki99
2008-07-31 03:15 am UTC (link)
Now all that remains in the insulation, drywall, mudding, painting, flooring, bathroom fixtures... :D But the exterior is pretty much weatherproof, and that's a great relief.

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[info]_steelphoenix_
2008-07-30 11:26 pm UTC (link)
Wow, that's looking great! And yay on the further progress towards completion!

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[info]murasaki99
2008-07-31 03:17 am UTC (link)
Thanks! :D I'd say we're about halfway there. *Phew* Man, it's making me tired, though. Full-time work and then I come home and get to do whatever needs doing at the house. *Flop*

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[info]x_expat
2008-07-31 02:36 am UTC (link)
Looks very pretty! And LARGE. :-)

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[info]murasaki99
2008-07-31 03:19 am UTC (link)
Thankies! The largeness is due to the pitch of the roof-span trusses. At least the middle area under the roof is decked as an attic so we can store light stuff up there. I hate wasted space. I'd have preferred it to be a live-able loft, but the cost was too much. Construction is full of compromises. :)

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[info]aeljn
2008-08-01 12:32 am UTC (link)
Hurrah! I'm glad to see so much has been done. Just sent a letter to your Mom about the "fun" we've been having since lightning struck the house last week. (Turns out it was a good thing I was playing Mahjongg on my computer -- the painful, but not dangerous, shock I got through the mouse seems to have grounded my computer. Ed's computer was fried.)

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[info]murasaki99
2008-08-01 01:22 am UTC (link)
Good grief, you got zapped?? I'm glad you're OK! Yikes!

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[info]aeljn
2008-08-01 01:57 am UTC (link)
Yes, I was zapped, but it just hurt at the time and made my arm & fingers ache for a few hours.

Thanks! I'm rather glad, too.

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[info]centaurg
2008-08-01 03:12 am UTC (link)
I'm thinking what you described shouldn't have happened at all. Sounds disturbingly like the "grounding" in your house isn't, and should be tested by a qualified electrician.

An allegedly qualified electrician who did work on my mother's house left such miswiring that several of the basement wall sockets had a full 120 volts on the ground prongs--I proved this by connecting the ground to a water pipe through a light bulb, which promptly glowed at full brilliance.

Given that your house got zapped, an electrician should check things out on general principle. There may be damage.

I'm sort of glad I no longer live where lightning is a common occurrence.

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[info]aeljn
2008-08-01 03:22 am UTC (link)
Thanks. We're getting whole-house surge protection.
The strike was to an outside outlet for a long-disused water softner system. That outlet shared a wall with my bedroom.

The dishwasher timer motor got fried because the ground wire had never been connected. (!)

Yes, we had an electrician check the house. The outside light switch/outlet in my sister's and my bathroom works again, for the first time in months.

You know that kind of huge, jagged lightning bolts you see in horror movies? That's the kind we get around the mountains that are within 5 miles of our house.

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[info]centaurg
2008-08-01 03:51 am UTC (link)
Whee! Fun stuff to watch, but not so fun when it gets up close and personal; I was once standing on a building roof when lightning struck a nearby hill. The electrostatic field made the hairs on my arms jump. I've seen a couple of intriguing cases of direct lightning strikes: obvious gross burns and dangling skeins of insulation--the copper had vaporized without a trace.

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[info]murasaki99
2008-08-01 02:20 pm UTC (link)
Now *that* would hurt -- vaporizing, that is. 0__o

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[info]murasaki99
2008-08-01 02:23 pm UTC (link)
I'm so glad you're OK! Good grief, that was a close one! And I really glad an electrician has gone through things. Those misplaced ground wires are a real hazard as [info]centaurg says.

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[info]centaurg
2008-08-01 03:56 am UTC (link)
Oh, and while I'm at it tonight--looks like someone's got a house! No doubt you can taste the anticipation of when it's all done and you can start populating the new section.

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[info]murasaki99
2008-08-01 02:21 pm UTC (link)
Indeed! I wanna move stuff in there now, but there is insulation (started yesterday), drywall, paint, flooring, finishing, fixtures... But it is going very well so far and the outside looks so nice now that the shell and siding is done.

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