The only crew working so far this week are the HVAC installers who are actually getting close to finishing. Here is a view of the basement from the corner under the master bedroom. Straight ahead are the air handling units (which will eventually be enclosed in a wall forming a utility room). You can also see some of the insulating panels installed on the left, and the remaining panels stacked to the right. Between the silver panels and the silver ducts, the basement will be very shiny. (We are contemplating painting the panels later on.)

No electrical work in being done this week, but the electrician will be back next week.

The builder confirmed that the siding technician will actually be on site on Friday so siding starts on Friday. They will start with the north side of the garage, where the electric meter is and where the propane tanks will go. The goal is to get that wall sided so the propane tanks can be installed. Those tanks will be used to heat the house (using a portable unit) during construction. They do not want to use the newly installed heating system since they do not want to have all the ducts get coated with construction dust.

We are now picking out a garage door. The original door we choose was from a manufacturer that our installer warned us against, so we are finding another door we like. Speaking of doors, we have decided that the sill for the door between the pantry and the breezeway will be accessible to make it easy to roll a wheelchair over the sill. The downside is that the sill may leak a little water in a severe storm (but the door is under the breezeway, not really out in the open). All the other doors will have a step up to get over the sill (which is typical).

No progress on the deck fire protection paint since it has been raining. But the rain has now stopped so I expect that work will start up again soon. The fire protection paint is very light, so we are thinking that we will add a final coat of a darker paint, which will prevent the deck joists from being noticeable under the deck planks (yet to be installed).

All that rain has raised the river by quite a bit. Here is a close up of Mary’s Ditch (as our neighbors call the inlet in our waterfront) as of today next to a cropped picture from 2 months ago when the water was at its lowest.

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