Insulation

The insulation is going in! It's Johns Manville Formaldehyde Free so it won't be off-gassing any nasty fumes into the house. R-13 for the walls and R-30 for the ceilings.....the walls are about 2/3 done, but ceilings aren't in at all yet. That will probably be happening tomorrow. We're insulating all of the interior walls of the house for acoustic reasons too.

Here's the part of the house that's not insulated yet. It's the part that needed the new foundation wall....


....which was poured this past Wednesday. After the forms come off and the new sill plate and rim joist are put in, the contractor will be able to finish the north wall by sheathing it with the OSB and installing the last window.



Here is where the new foundation meets the existing chimney.

This is basically our exterior palette. The boards are the redwood that will be the window and door trim. They have been treated with Cabot Clear Solution in the Cedar tint. The two 'pie tins' are possible stucco colors. This past weekend, we mixed up the two stucco colors that we're trying to choose between because those paper color charts just never are quite right. The one on the left actually looks much darker and more blue than it does in the photo. We are currently leaning towards the one on the right....

This is the rear kitchen window and door. We've had a little scheduling problem with getting our doors in a timely manner. The back door is supposed to be in early next week, and the front door will, hopefully, follow soon after that.

Here's the obligatory overall shot from the front of the house.

And finally, here you can see that some of the windows have their metal, corner strapping in place. These walls are going to be rock solid when we are done!

Next week, we look forward to stucco lathe and drywall!!