Howell Cabin

Friday Isaiah came up for the weekend. He and Eliot put in a laundry room window. Jon cleaned up glue spill and defects on the exposed tongue-and-groove ceiling to prepare for an oil finish. Siggy made a signpost for the archery range from repurposed window shipping crates. And he took a ride up the elevator. We took a few shots at the bale. Saturday Began with a huge dump run, truck and trailer full. 2580 pounds! The transfer station attendant complimented my trailer-backing skills (hit the stall on the first try), so I think I just earned another merit badge. Christina worked on detailing and oiling the interior wood trim on the installed windows.  Sometime in the last year or so someone hired a surveyor to stake out property lines. That's handy! I had a few fenceposts lying around, so I pounded a couple in to make the marks more permanent. We originally hung the swing on recycled conduit pull tape, good for 1800...

Friday Mike made it back this weekend, and we got to work on the windows. Look at that, a dozen windows in the front! We even had enough time to get a lesson on ordinary windows. Here are the kitchen windows going in. Eliot & Mike were justifiably proud of their work. They got out the big  selfie-stick (above) and took the cool shot at the top of this post. In the evening, Eliot finished up the tree-trimming. Saturday We finished up the top layer of flashing on the front windows.  Then we punched through the back of the house and put in the upper-loft window at the very top....  ...and the windows in the girls bedroom on the second floor. While we worked, our plumber Pete came up and finished up the drain & water work in the crawlspace. It looks fantastic. We quit early today. A puff of tool exhaust blew a chip of sawdust around Eliot's safety glasses and into his eye. The pain hung around a while, and we conclud...

Friday We fixed up a few details.  Eliot screwed the hose bibbs into the mounting blocks. We had a 30" space for the toilet, but the plumber pointed out that after drywall it would only be 29". We cut away a wall and moved it 1-1/4" farther from the toilet. We needed to rearrange the framing in the showers to accommodate the shower valves we bought. Vycor Man made an appearance, carrying eight rolls of membrane window flashing in a single load . Jon brought boxes of liquid-applied flashing from Seattle, which is supposed to be the new hotness, but we brought a bunch of Vycor membrane flashing from Marson in case the liquid didn't work well. Our cherry-picker showed up Friday afternoon. They were out of the 42' lift, so we got a 60-foot model. Eliot drove it up to the house to ready for our framer Mike coming Saturday to help us with the windows. Saturday Mike showed up to teach us how to do windows, and to help us understand the mechan...