EddieWalker said:
Alan,
Sure must be exiting times out there!!!
Take lots and lots of pictures and organize them when you download them. Steph and I used different cameras and our files are a mess. I've spent hours trying to get them in order and make sense of them.
Eddie
Eddie, I use Picasa, a free Google program to deal with my pics. I use a folder for each day up download pics, like 2006_12_06 so they sort right, and its easy to see them in date order. Picasa is great for cropping and emailing compressed versions while still retaining the original pictures.
Not much progress today as they were waiting for 3 big gluelam beams and web trusses to arrive (these go between floors). They got some ceiling joists up, and the headers around the perimeters of all the porches.
I already have a screwup. Long story short, during rough-in we changed from a 6' corner tub to a 5' foot corner tub and decided with the plumber to make my shower a foot longer toward the tub to make up the difference, and he moved his shower drain so that it would center on the new proposed shower size. Nobody told the framer so the shower is framed as the plan shows, and the drain is not centered. Also, the shower is framed like a closet, all the way to the 9' ceiling, whereas Mrs. Alan L. wanted it upen at the top.
I have not even spoken with anyone about but I think I am going to leave it. There is a 4 by 4 casement window that centers very nicely on the 6' wall behind the tub, and so we think we will just use that extra foot for a ledge next to the tub that will be tiled and she can put a pot plant or two on it. Plus, I think they can just frame in some rectanges up high on 2 sides of the shower enclosure to vent the steam, and line the openings with tile. I would hope that would look good. As for the drain, we might move the shower head from the center of the back wall to the wall adjacent to the tub (on the right). The water lines can be re-routed through the walls.
I am attaching a couple of pics. The one with the window is over the tub but the tub would actually only take up 5' of the 6' opening that the window is centered in. We would then put the ledge on the left side for plants, presumably just below the bottom of the window.
We'll keep thinking about it, but I think this is the way we will go.
I also think I put one of my floor plugs to close to the front door. You open the front door, and there is the floor plug 6'6" in front of you. I would have like to have moved it a foot further. One of the drawbacks to having any kind of foyer. The front door just opens right into the living room. I just couldn't get a foyer to work in this plan.
You must have a "mob" of framers to make that much progress in one day. Lookin' good!
