September 19, 2010

The Roof!

Our roof tile finally arrived on Thursday morning, more than 2 weeks behind schedule. It came on a big flatbed truck, and was dropped off in our driveway with this little forklift.
This much tile hardly seems worth transporting on a giant flatbed truck, but I imagine it's pretty heavy, and it looked like they had a bunch of other stuff on the truck to deliver elsewhere.
John and Steve W got pretty good start installing the roof tile on Thursday, and then came back Friday to finish it up -- with Rob's supervision.
It's hard to get a good photo of it without taking it through a window screen, but here's the view of the roof from the family room.
Unfortunately, they didn't deliver the curved pieces that go along the front face of the roof, so it's not entirely finished yet, but hopefully they'll get the missing tile soon.
Inside, they have installed fire-resistant drywall along the south side of the garage and managed to hoist the little sailboat up
We stopped at Home Depot last night and picked up some fluorescent light fixtures and hooks for hanging bikes, boats, and garden equipment. Yes, it's kind of sad that we spent our Saturday night at Home Depot, but at least we were on our way home from a party. OK, it was a kid's birthday party, but it still counts -- the food and drink were decidedly adult-oriented.

Someone will be coming later this week to install the gutters, and then the only parts remaining will be installing the electrical fixtures and extending the driveway. If all goes well, it should be done in the next couple weeks.

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