Today Aaron and I finished the soffits front and back including the end caps on the overhangs. Now except for the AAC trim around the front windows/door and finishing a dab of HardiPlanking on the south wall, we are essentially finished with the exterior of our Irish cottage (awaiting the light gray stucco). Here's a picture of the soffit on the south overhang with its closed-in end cap. As you may recall, the southside overhang is wider than the front and designed to block the summer sun (which is higher in the sky) and let in the winter sun to passively heat our Irish cottage.
This is a shot of the front overhang/soffit and end cap:
We also finished some odds and ends today including changing out one of the hinges on the back door that was sprung and adding a "sweep" to the bottom of both front and back doors to seal out "Old Man Winter."
Additionally, we started cleaning the concrete floor in preparation for staining it to look like brown suede. The stain will be transparent ("chicory") and will allow the "blemishes" in the concrete (see discoloration in concrete, below) to show through giving the floor a natural stone-like look.
Howell King, our plumber/electrician, has been booked up with service work recently and can't come back to help us finish up until Sunday afternoon. The hope is we'll pass our rough-in electrical inspection next week and then be able to install our tin ceiling and summons the insulation guy to blow in cellulose (R-32 front wall, R-50 ceiling). It's gonna be toasty warm this winter in our Irish cottage!
This is a shot of the front overhang/soffit and end cap:
We also finished some odds and ends today including changing out one of the hinges on the back door that was sprung and adding a "sweep" to the bottom of both front and back doors to seal out "Old Man Winter."
Additionally, we started cleaning the concrete floor in preparation for staining it to look like brown suede. The stain will be transparent ("chicory") and will allow the "blemishes" in the concrete (see discoloration in concrete, below) to show through giving the floor a natural stone-like look.
Howell King, our plumber/electrician, has been booked up with service work recently and can't come back to help us finish up until Sunday afternoon. The hope is we'll pass our rough-in electrical inspection next week and then be able to install our tin ceiling and summons the insulation guy to blow in cellulose (R-32 front wall, R-50 ceiling). It's gonna be toasty warm this winter in our Irish cottage!
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