rain

good thing that roof is on there, because the rain is here in seattle. its been raining unusually hard for september the past few days. anyway, the roof is doing its job, and just in time. the next door neighbor said its a little loud when the rain beats down on it. oh well. turn up your tv. if he doesn't like that, he wont like the siding much...
we're going with metal siding from about half way up and wood on the bottom half. the metal is a dark grey corrugated and it should look beautiful in contrast to the wood. the wood is an open joint rainscreen system. i'm pretty excited to get it up there and see what it all looks like. i'm hoping to hire out the top half to keep myself off of the ladder, and do the bottom myself. we'll see.
-k

roof

the metal roof looks awesome. it was a little expensive, but it should last forever, and it looks great. actually, it wasn't as expensive as i was thinking it would be, but the labor was kinda steep for a day's work. the place to go if you're in the seattle area is Metal Roof Specialties in Tacoma. ask for Wayne. he helped me out a ton.
rough plumbing is in, but dry and today is the pre-glue inspection. hopefully i can get the place all glued up on saturday and tested. its time to move on to the siding, and in order to do that, we should get that big hole in the front yard filled up so we have a flat place to work.
garage door is on order, and should be installed in a couple of weeks. it will be nice to be pretty much closed in at that point. we still have a window on order and two to install, but after that, we should be pretty much dry inside
i'd take some pictures of the roof, but you cant see it from the street. you have to drive around the block and look at it from the road above. and even then, you can only get a peek.
-kk