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This blog is about my friend Jeanne and me. I met Jeanne on the internet years ago and since have kept contact with her through emails and common interests. A few years ago I was lucky enough to meet with Jeanne in person and it has made our friendship closer. Recently Jeanne bought herself a camera and we decided to create this blog and share some of our photos and hobbies.

You will notice this blog is in both English and Dutch.

Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Are we there yet!!!

I am sure that is what you are asking about now.  "Are we there yet!"  Getting close just the roof and some finishing touches and the building part is done.  Then comes the 'landscaping' part and that is a totally different thing.  But first some more pictures to show you the wrapping of the house and the installation of the windows.

The work crew came back on Friday to finish the upstairs picture window frame, wrap the house and install the windows.  The finishing of the window frame was not too difficult and they could do most of it from the inside of the house but wrapping and installing windows was a different story. 
Darren doing some measuring.

Here you can see how the top window frame is starting to look like the bottom window frame.


 To make their work easier they had decided to rent a lift.  But here is where the trouble started.  Before they could drive around to the other side of the building they first had to level out the dirt around it and we had Herb to this while they 'boys' worked on what they could do.  At 10 am (they started at 7 am) the lift came.  Well did we have problems.  The lift got stuck at the side of the house and had to be pulled out by Herb's bulldozer.  Even that was not the easiest thing to do.

Here you see the bulldozer pulling out the lift.

As you can tell it sunk in quite deep.  I was told that these machines are extremely heavy and have a lot of ground weight.

Here is Jason standing and keeping is his fingers and toes crossed hoping it will work.

It is working but it is also pulling the machine a bit to the left.

Success!  The bulldozer won and pulled out the lift.

So now we had to get some more gravel.  But it is Friday late morning.  Jason tried every company he could to deliver some gravel.  All of them were of course totally booked up already and the earliest would be Saturday morning.  Finally he found a company which had trucks but no drivers.  By mid afternoon he had found a driver and a load of gravel would be coming.  But now that the machine was out they could at least wrap and install the windows on the one side of the house which they did.


Darren struggling with the wrap.  But it sure is a lot easier having a lift.

All the way to the top and some more.

Looking nice boys!

Here the almost finished product and . . . a couple of windows.

Finally our gravel came so first we had to move out the lift for the truck to drive in.  What is not shown in the pictures here that the materials for our roof arrived and are scattered around our yard as well so space was at a minimum here.

Herb do your best and let's hope it is enough gravel so the lift wont sink away again.

Herb did a great job and there was enough gravel to hold the lift now so they could go to other side of the house and finish the upstairs window frame and the wrapping.

Now we can get to work and get this done.

What is that bundle of paper there?

Is someone playing hide and see?  I see a hand.

Yes there is someone under all that paper wrapping the house.


This is why they need a lift.  Wrapping is so much easier this way.  As it is it still took 3 people to get the wrap stapled down.

And now comes the hardest part of the day.  The installation of the picture windows.  It is getting mid afternoon now and they want to get all the windows installed and take the lift back that evening.  I could not just post a few pictures of the window install as you would not get the right idea on how big the windows were and how they struggled with it.  So I decided to put all the pictures (60) into a slide show.  The slide show is about 5 minutes long so get yourself some coffee or tea and enjoy.



You can see the video by clicking here 

On Saturday Jesse came back to finish installing the casement windows and finish off some odds and ends.  No pictures from this day as we had to go out.  Tomorrow or Thursday the roofers are suppose to come which I hope they do as we have had rain now for almost 2 days and everything is getting pretty wet.  But I will keep you up to date with pictures again.
Thanks for dropping by and we will see you in a couple of days.

1 comment:

  1. Bij de video heb ik al iets gezet, maar moet nog een keer mijn complimenten geven voor al je foto's en het plaatsen met tekst, zodat het zelfs vanuit Holland te volgen is.Bijna winterdicht gelukkig. Zo zie je, alles komt goed, maar nooit zonder geduld! Jeanne

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