Zoom boom bananza

I am posting early this week because tomorrow, Sunday, I am driving over 700 kms to pick up the log siding for the wall on the kitchen gable. If I don't do it myself it could be weeks before my contractor will get it done. Of course, I will bill him for the cost of collecting it, which will still probably be a saving for him. So, I am pushed for time this week having only just got in from working on the cabin

When Kevin and Marvin, the roof framers, finished on Wednesday Marvin kindly raised me up in the basket on the end of the zoom boom (see shadow) to take some photos of their handy work.

They did an outstanding job, and are a shining example that other contractors might wish to emulate. I took them out for a meal to thank them and sent them a copy of the photos that I took.

I also wrote to their boss, "Rich the Framer," to thank him for their services and offered to recommend him and his team to any future prospective clients.

The wood burning stove people also came along and installed chimneys for the two stoves that will go into the room above the garage and the main cabin great room.

The porch was also completed and all that remains here is to stain the timber frames and board the underside, which can wait.

I am particularly pleased with the way the main roof lines have integrated with the covered deck roof.

While I was up in the basket I took a photo of my neighbours' houses. This is the one to my right as you look at the lake and …. 

this one to the north or left as you look at the lake.

The rest of the week was taken up with fitting windows and doors on the upper level, for which the use of the zoom boom was very handy.

I even managed to get the trim on all of them, which was a real bonus, and ...

... to fit the French windows to the prow and trim them both as well.

The only real disappointment of the week was to discover, when we tried to fit them, that the two largest windows in the house in the prow are 10 inches too short. After much debate about options I have decided that the only viable one is to reorder the windows to the correct size. My contractor is obviously not happy with this but in the end it his responsibility to get it right in the first place.

It will be nice to see the small decks outside the bedrooms and the main deck furniture finished. It is hoped some if not all of this can be achieved next week.

The weather continues to hold and so while I was aloft I also took some photos of the lake and the surrounding countryside. This shot looking down the lake.

The view directly in front of my place.

Finally, just off to the north.That is it for this week. I'll try to write something a little more interesting next week if I have the time.