Sunday, October 7, 2012

Windows and Plumbing and Electricity OH MY!!

What a difference a few weeks can make when you are building a house.


Pictured above and below is the Wendling house, under construction, will the window (and front door installed).  The house is now considered to be enclosed and is a major touchstone in the construction of a house.


As you can tell our house has lots of windows.  Rosanne and Kevin enjoy natural light and every room in their house - except one in the basement - has a window with natural light from windows.


As you may also be able to tell many of the windows are extremely large - for example the windows in the middle  of the main house - basically in the middle of the picture is approimately 6 feet wide and 5 feet high.  These windows off of living room and in the loft in the 2nd floor will allow the sunset to be seen and natural light to bathe the house.


As well the plumbing is also complete in the house - as can be seen below with the plumbing for the island in the Kitchen.  It is so easy to forget all of the piping and waterlines that are found in between the walls that will later be covered up...


and of course part of the plumbing are the toilets.


Beside the windows and plumbing our house now contains about 75% of the heating ducts and cold area returns.  Although we are awaiting the furnace  still one can see how everything will connect together.


And what house would be complete without a laundry shoot...5 kids (girls) with 2 of them being teenagers...the laundry shoot is far from a luxury but rather a necessity.



Finally, over the past week our builder poured the final sections of concrete....


...the front porch...


the garage and our steps from the walkout.


Lots of work done...but yet lots to go.  Stay tuned as the exterior and dry wall will be coming.  We as a family continue to get excited as we see things progressing and we await our moved date which cannot come soon enough.

4 comments:

  1. Wow, Amazing work.
    Excellent plumbing work done by you and thanks for sharing nice pictures of house.
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  2. It seems like the project is going according to your plan, judging by these photos. I noticed that the plumbing system is pretty well setup. Did you hire a professional plumber to install that? The arrangement is very organized, which would make future repairs and replacements easy to do.

    >Darryl Iorio

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  3. The back of Kabola boiler in the engine room can be seen through the (large for access and ease of use) gap in the bulkhead. Click here

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  4. When the plumbing system in the entire house is done, that’s the time when you can already tell that the house is halfway finished. You can now almost imagine the house as a home. Is this home already finished? I’d love to see its pictures when it's done.

    +Elia Lester

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