June 24
technical
Now that all of the wood for the walls and closets is in place, the next step is the linseed oil spraying project. The floor has to be covered completely. Linseed oil + concrete = disaster. Arnold and his helpers will go through the entire interior, spraying all of the wood and the adobe blocks with linseed oil. TWICE. In one day. Oh, just kill me now. I can’t believe he can do this, but he can. Steve and Arnold can do anything, I bet.
Also this week, the windows will be delivered. Arnold and his helpers will install all of the windows. And you KNOW how many of those there are in this big house. These are Pella windows. They will be placed in the window bucks and then there are several steps involved in securing them, including attaching wire mesh to them and wrapping that mesh around the window buck and nailing it under the felt. Once the stucco goes on, these windows will be stuck! In a very good way. Installing the windows will take at least a week.
After the windows, the doors will arrive. Don’t know yet who does the doors, so stand by for that info.
Steve and I also talked about garage doors and tile samples today. Things are moving along!
Don’t forget: Click on the first picture to open up the BIG Gallery!
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- Arnold’s Wood Working Shop–in the Garage
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- Beautiful wood
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- This is a good view of how the tongue and groove works
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- Gorgeous. This will be sprayed with linseed oil.
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- Even better close-up of tongue and groove
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- Exhaust for the dryer…
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- …goes through the maintenance room to the great outdoors
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- East End HVAC is all complete now
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- Floors are covered in preparation for the linseed oil spray
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- Every inch of concrete is covered. Concrete hates linseed oil apparently.
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- All covered up
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- Rain precursor clouds
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- The metal roof flashing is in place all around the edges of the house now
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- The flashing will not show once the stucco is applied
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- Hard to believe the roof is completely done now!
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- Steve is zooming in the Spyder, picking up materials for the big truck
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- Remember this? It is used to cut adobe blocks.
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- Adobes are done so this machine needs to go back home
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- Bye bye, Clipper!
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- This is the last bit for this trip
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- Steve gets the Spyder lined up…
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- clicks it into place and boom!
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- It is ready to go home along with everything else.
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- Rainbow around the sun means weather is on the way.
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- Lots of Cloud Dancers today
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- Very expressive!
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- But the thunderheads are moving in our direction, so the dance must end.
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- Bella thinks it is too hot to dance.
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- Can we go home now?
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- Thunderheads!
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- The house from the street: Fort Krevit Disco Hotspot!
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Tile Teaser:
There are 9 pages of these from which to choose. OMG.
those tiles are mahvelous…how was you ever choose between them?
Me not know. You have been a big help in assisting me in narrowing down the range of choices, but still. There are so many I really like and some I really LOVE. I want to go “dramatic” in the kitchen. Steve is trying to talk me down from this ledge… Ha ha.
Wow! It’s looking amazing!
You are having more rain than we are.
Lucky you–I have always wanted talavera tile.
We have been fortunate with the rain this year. So fortunate that fireworks were allowed in town last night! No fire ban for the first time in a long time apparently. And the tile–so exciting but also mind-numbing. Too many choices! What a problem, eh? 😉