The exterior doors were installed. This is the front entry a few weeks ago. There is a second, identical door across the foyer from this one. You're actually looking through two glass doors at the scaffolding on the back of the house.
There are two doors to the porch from the living room. Here's one of them.
We weren't there when this happened, but imagine that some words may have been said. As the electrician put it, "Dan was not impressed." (These Mainers are so dramatic and really need to tone down their superlatives.)
Plumbing is now pretty much roughed in:
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| Shut-off valves for every room are in the mechanical room |
The electrical system for the house is also roughed in (we still need to make decisions about the garage and shop.)
And this:
Became this:
A box appeared in the mechanical room that appears to be part of the solar photovoltaic system. So far we don't know what it does.
And most exciting of all, as much as we like the pretty pink rigid insulation covering the exterior of the house, it's now being covered in siding. The siding is Hardiepanel, an engineered fiber cement board. It comes pre-painted (ours is "Light Mist") and requires essentially no future maintenance.
To bring this post full circle, this is how the entry looks now:
