Shingles! We have shingles. No, not the illness! The roof!
It took the roofers one day to put on the shingles. In the morning no roof; in the afternoon, roof. Take a look.
Meanwhile, the chimney has been finished. Here is a long photo of our new chimney.
That is a tall chimney. You can see that the cage is on top too. That keeps the critters out of the chimney. Squirrels and birds have been known to build their nests in chimneys during the warm months, and then the nests can cause a chimney fire after a fire has been lit in the fireplace .
We have the best looking chimney in the neighborhood.
Also, the framers have built the interior walls on the second floor. Below is a photo of the closet in the master bedroom.
Here is another view of the interior.
Wow! That is a lot of boards. You can see that the strapping is in place on the ceiling too. The ceiling boards will be secured to the strapping.
Buried in all of that wood are the bathroom fixtures, one tub unit and one shower unit.
They have to frame the walls around the bath fixtures because they are one-piece units and are too big to go in through a door. We don’t want to mess that up, because once the walls are finished, the only way out is Sawzall®*
*I have no financial interest in Sawzall – I don’t even own one – I am just trying to be funny again.**
**Although I do hear through the grapevine that you can take anything apart with one of those.***
***But I have no personal experience of that.****
****Which doesn’t mean that it isn’t true.*****
*****I just don’t know that for certain myself.