First Day Cottage Walpole

Every day passes and we get a little closer.  Some big milestones this week:  The septic tank has been delivered.  Next week the leach field will be installed and then we wait for the state inspector. You can see my red board siding for the garage here. The concrete gets poured for the garage today (fingers crossed)! And progress continues on the tiled shower in the Master Bath

More progress at the house this week.  We have a porch!  The roof and railings were constructed. There is an opening for 6 foot wide stairs that will come down off the front.  We were concerned that the roof would slope too low and block our lovely view from the inside but Mike worked it out so it did not do that and we are thrilled! It is going to be a lovely place to hang out and enjoy our beautiful pastoral view. And they started putting the roof on yesterday.  Now that all the rough wiring is done through the roof for the overhead lighting the roof can be installed.  It will be good to get the house completely weather tight. It definitely gives the house a whole new industrial sort of look.  It is charcoal and the siding is light gray so very neutral. Will definitely need to add some flowers to get some color in there!  The garage will be barn red and I began working on those boards this week.  Still very cold here for May.  We even had a little snow over the weekend!  Wa

The furnace went operational today and the basement slab is starting to warm a little and not feel like a tomb down there.  This set-up in the boiler room looks intense.  I think the whole house will be hooked up tomorrow. One of the manifolds for the radiant heat in the basement. In other news the electricians have been doing their part and we officially have a light in the boiler room. They have got a good amount of the rough in electrical done is one half of the upstairs and have all the heating and water appliances wired in.  Getting there.