Exciting stuff...for me!

Let's see, we got the moisture membrane on the basement walls (but we need just a little more to finish it completely...I'm sure I'll be sent on that mission tomorrow! We got the drainpipe along the basement walls set in place. If my dad is up to it, he'll probably backfill in the morning. We ordered and received our shingles and the store brought their boom truck to deliver those right up to the roof, as shown below.



They also delivered our sheet-rock.

Not sure what Kenny was laughing at...

This stuff was delivered right through an open window! That'll save a lot of sore backs!

After the shingles were delivered, Kenny got right to work laying them. If you click on the picture, you'll get a closer view...these are way better than 3-tab shingles!

Don't adjust your monitor...yes there is a huge gap in this window opening, but it wasn't a mistake! At the time Dean built it, we weren't entirely sure where our kitchen sink was going to land along this wall, so he made the opening extra large so we could shift the window one way or the other. As it turns out, we laid out the entire downstairs interior wall scheme along with cabinet placement on the sub-floor with chalk lines, and this window will now be all the way to Dean's left.

Here are the two BIG windows near what will be the breakfast area in our kitchen!

They got one half of the new roof shingled completely and in the morning, they will be stripping the old shingles off the old part of the roof and reshingling that, too. Today they managed to get all the downstairs windows installed along with the exterior door in the kitchen. They didn't get to the exterior door in what will be my dad's room...tomorrow. Also the rest of the windows should be installed tomorrow as well. I'll keep you updated!