The ‘sky’light that is! Well it has been a few days and I finally have some photos I can share with you. We’ve had multiple trades here over the last while so a lot is getting accomplished in the house. Our builder is finally back on site after a two week abscense, so we are hoping he gets a bunch of things wrapped up as well.
Here we go:
So as you can see we have shingles and two skylights installed over the dining room. 
The other front half of the house is left to shingle and install skylights, but I’m pretty pleased with how it’s coming along. Also we got our chimney framed so we will be working on getting the fireplace hooked up right away and as soon as it is, we can start using it! Wahoo!
I had to add a picture of Aron driving on his little tractor. He’s heading off to smooth out our road. It’s a steep road and we get a few people driving up who try to gun it and then spin out or make a mess of the road. Slow and steady always works the best. Anyhow, it will be a constant job for us to keep the road in good condition while it is under so much use.
This is the interior of the dining room with the new skylights installed. Both have built in blinds that run off solar and one opens to vent out hot air in the summer (also runs on solar).
They have cut the holes for our bedroom skylights, tomorrow, they will get installed.
The electricians, plumber and HVAC crew have been busy. I’m impressed with the size of our electrical panel
and we have vents, pipes and wires running all over the place now. They should all be wrapped up by the end of this week. One major issue that we run into was that we planned to have an electrical hot water on demand unit (there is no natural gas running out this far). Unfortunately we hadn’t really paid attention to the electrical demands for the unit and our electrician almost fainted when he saw the specs. Needless to say, we’ve had to change our plans or get another 200 amp service run to our property ($$$$). So we are now going with a propane powered hot water on demand system, but this requires more work for ventilation, piping in the propane, etc. Plus we can’t have it in the utility room as with everything going on in there we couldn’t find any way to vent it. So we are putting it in our pantry (knew there was a reason we had such a big pantry). Anyhow, at least we found out before we bought the unit we originally selected.
And last but not least, I got the front entry beams stained. Now I just need to get 3 coats of sealant on them and I’m done!
Aron has been working on our water system, digging in pipes out into the river and then working back to the pump shed. This will be an on-going project for the next week or so. I’ve been working at my new job the last 3 days, so I’m not around much during the day. I’m going to enjoy my next four days at home doing some work on the house and garden.
Sorry to hear about all the snow in Southern Alberta, we sure hope you are all safe and warm. The weather here is in the mid to low teens now with the odd bit of rain, but overall it is pretty decent fall weather. We hope you get some sunshine and warmer weather soon!