Nov 28

The weather is still co-operating, so we continue to make real progress with the exterior of the cottage.

The main roof is now shingled, so that as soon as the windows arrive and are installed within the next week or so, the cottage will be water tight.  It was decided to hold off shingling the porch roof to allow us to use that roof to stage our scaffolds to install the siding (which will be on site in about a week)



The boat port was also reshingled to match the cottage.



The fireplace is now installed and the chimney framed in.  The fireplace could theroretically be lit



The stone mason has completed the deck wall and can be seen installing the lath on the cottage wall in preperation to installing the stone on the front and side walls.



Finally the interior partitions are all going up and are now defining the interior space of the cottage.



To paraphrase a famous politicain 'the cottage is evolving as it should"

November 18, 2011

The guys were back from the hunt camp.  Jon reports that the hunting was a bust, but the camaraderie was a success. 

This week they succeeded in getting most of the porch roof framed.

The roofers were scheduled to start shingling the roof this week with weather conditions including four inches of snow on Thursday prevented them from starting.  A wet plywood gives a poorer roof.

Don is making good progress on getting the stone installed on the deck wall.

Finally the fireplace was installed on Friday.  It still requires the insulated chimney to be added (they were send a damaged elbow and had to get a replacement) the fireplace walls still have to be framed in, and the stone facing installed, but combined with the in-floor heating tubing last week the cottage is getting closer to being winterized. (pardon the bad focus on the last photo)

Overall things are progressing as scheduled

Nov 11



This week was mainly devoted to the sub-trades getting the concrete main floor poured.  Very little was done with the framing since most of ort guys were off for the annual male bonding week.  As is traditional in North country at this time of year, most of our guys were off to their "hunt camp". 

Nature even co-operated by giving them our first snowfall.  The snow only stayed on the ground for a few days but it set the tone.

Before leaving they did get the sand under the floor compacted and the SM Styrofoam insulation in place for the plumber and the heating guys to install the mesh re-enforcement and the tubing for the in-floor heating.

On Friday the concrete was poured and levelled ready for the main floor interior finishing to come.

 Meanwhile the stonemason, Don, was busy installing the cultured stone to the front wall deck.

  

Nov 7

A lot of progress was achieved last week.  The site has been a beehive of activities with most of the sub-trades spending some time on site getting organized.  A lot of the material needed over the next few weeks have been delivered.

1.  The Stonerox cultured stone for the exterior of the deck and walls as well as the chimney are now on site and the stone mason has started to get the walls ready for installation.  The current good weather is going to allow him to get a good head start on the stone work

2.  The "Tall Wall" for the vaulted ceiling in the Master Bedroom is now framed.  Notice that one of the porch roof truss was put in place to determine the height of the porch posts and beams.

3.  The Cottage roof was framed in and sheathed.  As soon as the porch roof is done we can get the shingles installed. 

4.  Notice all the equipment in the above picture.  It was hard at work for most of the week getting the first phases of the septic system installed.  The picture below shows the septic tank and the two pumps required for the system to work.  The pump nearest the cottage will grind the sewage and move it to the tank, and the second pump will move the treated sewage up to the septic bed will be located to the left between the cottage and the garage.

5.  The plumber was in to install the drainage pipes that will be buried under the floor and will connect with the septic system.  The electrician was on site to install the hydro panel below so that we now have power within the cottage.  The rest of the wiring will come later when the framing is all complete.

6.  The deck joists have all been installed in order to organize the location of the posts for the porch roof, and to give the workers a safer work platform.  The joists will be temporarily covered in plywood and the actual cedar decking will only be installed next spring.  (Please note that the deck will not overhang as far as shown.  The joists will be trimmed back once the porch roof is installled).

Finally we are quite proud of our work, so we are taking the liberty of showing who we are, with signs visible both from the road and from the water.