This week saw the completion of the trusses over all the roof and the sheathing of the roof with plywood. The progress has been absolutely stunning. It's an enclosed structure now and you can see how all the rooms size out and will look. See photos of front and back. The front garage doors are closed out right now in the photo as is the front door. We were glad no one was hurt doing the roofing as there was a serious amount of wind here in the Bay Area the past few days, enough to create mini-tornadoes out of the dirt in our back yard.
The Structural FX crew also completed the cutouts for all the windows, which are ready to be installed now. It's impressive to see the team working, about 9 of them on site Friday - 5 doing roofing, 2 on electrical and 2 on plumbing.
The rough plumbing continues to be put in and the electrical just started Thursday. In just 2 days most of the boxes and lights are positioned. The team has been very proactive in making recommendations on things we forgot - provisioning for Christmas lights and outdoor low voltage landscape lighting, additional light switch boxes for outside lights, slight changes to inside switches, and addressing our list of desirables based on the finishing we bought - e.g., electric plug near the toilet for washlet. We also went over the communications, alarm wiring and speakers throughout the house. It's relatively easy to modify things now but very important to get this done now or it will not be easy when the walls start to be closed up.
Next week the HVAC work should start, electrical continues for 2 weeks or so, window installations, bathtub placements and possibly some leveling of dirt and preparation for retaining walls in back. There are also a lot of "L" shaped frames to build for all the coffers in the ceiling, some 120 of them which will be a job in itself!
