As the nights and mornings get cooler and our rainy weather returns, the race to get “weathered in” gets more serious.
Gabe came over for a couple of days over the weekend and helped with the waterproofing and roofing on our more vulnerable addition around the stairs, which is a big relief.
Gabe helps with the transition from old to new.
The remaining vulnerability is around the new lower space where the footprint is larger than the existing house. It rains onto concrete, which is less of a problem, but it wets the wood decking and framing on the way down. Not great.
The obstacle between us and that protection right now is the electrical drop, which currently (ha!) feeds through a place where roofing needs to be.
Our electrical panel floats and sun streams in where there ought to be a roof.
We did get a bit more privacy for our potty at the end of last week when Morgan built and kindly sheathed the wall between toilet and entry. The walls between toilet and stairwell are still open, but it’s a good start.
Little Nimrod peeks out of the open wall by the toilet. This space is now waterproof!
This leaves only one way in to our actual living space right now:
Come on in!
Both Jeff and Juicebox were over this morning and watching them deal with the confusion of this odd arrangement was validating in a weird way. Juicebox said goodbye and made two false attempts to leave before he found the way out, even though that was how he got in. We are living in a construction funhouse! Please exit through the bathroom!
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