The Finished House!

Photo dump and beginning of garage

 

A long awaited dump of photos from work on this jewel of a stone house. We have mostly completed the interior of the house. Our attentions have turned to the final major step of the process. The garage has begun and will take most of the summer to erect the stone walls. The rock continues to be pushed up the hill. It would have definitely been cheaper and easier to lay cement block, but where is the beauty in that? Hope you enjoy the peak at the interior shots. Here's to a productive summer!

 

 A million miles have been traveled during this winter, yet it seems as though they have all been taken standing still. Walls are getting a coat of plaster, trim is being roughed in, plumbing has been fitted and approved, and floors are being installed. Here are a few snapshots from a week ago of our endeavors thus far. Hopefully it will look ever more completed tomorrow as the miles continue to add up.

Kitchen with stripping up for tin ceiling.

Butternut panels in main room downstairs

Original basswood and soft maple flooring being reinstalled in upstairs bedroom

Small bedroom with bookcase atop stone wall

Kneewall closet

Late summer photos

 A lot has been done this summer. The brick work is now all up (pictures later). The ridgecap is bein made and installed. The stonework has been sandblasted, cleaned out, and tucked pointed. I am working on the drainage system in the basement, what a mucky mess! Pouring the floor is next. Still a lot of good working weather ahead.

Start of 2017

 The once barren walls have electrical wires run, plumbing pipes roughed in, insulation sprayed on, and in a few places plasterboard hung. I used 1860's doors and made the casings to fit. Joe the plumber helped me get the boiler installed before freeze up. The house is staying at a balmy fifty degrees with only the heat cables laid in sand downstairs. We have yet to run the baseboard throughout the house. In the evenings the window casings are being made. Note the photo of the downstairs window with one panel set in place. The original walls and casings had plaster directly applied to the stone as the finished surface.
The upstairs bedrooms have the collar ties exposed and with the tie in of of the 'new' addition tough angles which to cut around. A few more sheets of plasterboard yet to hang.
The basement is a mess as we have had to dig up the floor to install the new sewer stack. We will lay a new floor, in good time. More work awaits.

Upstairs hallway leading to two bedrooms

Upstairs bathroom looking to bedrooms

North bedroom

South bedroom

Basement (5ft headroom)

Walking around

 Things are framing up. I no longer have to rely upon upon a ladder to ascend to the second floor. Jim spent two weeks building the double winder staircase. The subfloor has been installed in the original house section and the addition. Blue spruce is a fine light contrast to the aged patina of the ash timbers. All the windows are installed. I am now turning my attentions to furring out the walls and ceiling for the electrician, plumber, and most of all the insulator. Electricity has been connected to the house, although a good handsaw and plane go quite a distance. With any luck and a lot of continued persistence the house will be closed up by snowfall. Sam

Windows

 A few photos of what we have been up to in the last few months. We got the antique windows which Bill brought from Connecticut last year finally roughed in. With a little work on the casings they fit in very nicely. We did install old wavy glass and the house seems to have a new life to it. I did get about five feet of brick work up on the back so the electrician could mount the meter. While I was waiting for the electric company to run the underground cable I got the downstairs framed out. As can be seen on the front of the house we worked on the right window to square it up. Amazing how much work a simple bottle jack can do. I am working in the cool of air conditioning on other parts of the staircase. Sanding treads and such. Once we get electricity we will turn our attentions to running the spruce sub floor through the saw.