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Zooming right along here!

The siding we'd chosen has gone up in price from $2.08/ft to $2.45/ft last month -- a 17% price increase! Well, it's still a decent deal. Here's what happens when contractors rely on homeowners for materials: I might have mentioned that there's a lead time to order the stuff, but without being personally involved, it's easy to lose track of things like that. My mistake again. Luckily Redwood Lumber had some stock, which Tim cleaned out, and the rest he ordered arrived on Wednesday. We had a stack of 1500 sq.ft. of 1x10 fingerjointed redwood siding material stacked in our garage. Which needs to be primed.

Tuesday the windows went in -- it's really looking like a building now. Dave reluctantly poses under our shed roof.

And the knee braces are up! They look fabulous! What a difference it makes to the building. Good enough to move into. Tim did a great job, and he obviously takes pride in them as well. We're thrilled. Little touches like this make the expense and effort of the whole project a joy.

Passed electrical inspection Tuesday.

I'm conscious again of how massive this building is. Did we really need a 15-foot high peak? It looks fine with our house, but towers over our neighborhood. Well, I imagine it's only a matter of time before the modest ranches around here start getting remodelled and added to. As it is, a house down the block on Heron Ave. is selling for $850K (though it hasn't sold yet -- with the stock market in a constant slide, I'm glad we don't have a house on the market!).

Finishing touches for the week: the garage door openings are trimmed out, and they've started wrapping the plywood with good old-fashioned felt paper.

This week's final view:

Weekend: What weekend? We worked all weekend priming siding, both sides. It's a much bigger job than it looks, partly because of all the logistics of finding places to put 16' boards as they dry. In the end, we were exhausted from nonstop work, but the worst part is that we didn't even finish. We got barely 2/3 of it done. Though it was the best we could do, I hated not being able to make good on our committment. (Actually, the worst part is all the take-out food -- how do those guys do it?!).

We did find a moment to videotape the wiring before it gets covered up next week with insulation and drywall. Not a moment to work on my door restoration though.

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