Days 27-31 - Framed

What's this? A whole week in one post? Well, we skipped town again. Before you go thinking the construction is too much for us, and is making us run screaming ... let me remind you, it is summer vacation after all. Between that and the whole "living in two rooms covered in dust" situation, I can't think of a better time to pack up and get out of (half-built) Dodge!

On Monday night, after a very productive meeting with Bob's HVAC guy, we headed up to Paul and Lawrence's place in Kennebunk, ME. Snapped a few shots before we left on Monday, and put in my requests with my brothers Paul and Tom to try to keep up the photo documentation while we were going to be away (thanks, guys!).

Finishing up rafters - note: our old chimney is going to have to grow a bit, don't you think?!

Back of master bedroom on second floor

Plan for the week was to demo the remaining exterior wall of the old playroom (where we added 4 feet, in what will be new family room), and to finish framing.

First up: demo that wall.

Done! Here's the new back wall, with four new window frames.

And what were we doing while this was going on?

Funtown/Splashtown USA in Saco, Maine

Oh, yes, I did ride that roller coaster - Nolan and I were in the front row - wheeeeeee!!!!

Back to the home front .... the framing. The guys got all the plywood up:

All that work inspired us to do a little building of our own!

The crew