Slow Dancing

Well, we're definitely at the slow part. The guys who actually have to make the stuff all the other crews did look good. They're starting the boxing and siding now, and it hasn't been without it's challenges.

First, the framers put full size rafter tails all the way out to the eves. That would have been fine, if we weren't trying to match the eves on the house. So, now the carpenters have to cut back each rafter tail and all the fly rafters, the hard way.

Then, we realized that the roofers, who were also the framers, didn't leave enough shingle overlap on the sides to accommodate the trim boards and drip edging. Oops. Short of some major changes that might do more hard than good, not a lot we can do on this one. Not a huge deal as drip edging basically isn't used on the sides here anyway, but it's on the house and that's what it was supposed to match. They're going to fab up some custom "L" shaped drip edging without the T-profile so it doesn't require any extra shingle overlap, but will have a mostly similar look.

And then there's that Dustin guy with his nit-picky requests.... Since we're using a moderately expensive solid wood siding, I'm having the guys seal the cut board ends that will be exposed to weather, bevel cut any joints to shed water, and space the siding boards a bit to allow moisture expansion (all of this is per installation specs, by the way, but probably wouldn't have been done had I not kept on them). But the less than perfectly straight boards are posing some unexpected challenges, and after a little over 2 days we almost have one side of the garage done.

I don't want to be too hard on the guys though - they really do want to do it in a way I'll be happy with it, and that's one of the things I knew I could rely on this builder to do for me. And, the reality is that it's starting to look pretty good. This part of the project is easily going to push into next week, but there's really not much more to do after that point.

We meet with the Garage Door Guy tomorrow - I have no idea what sort of doors we're going to put on this thing!

Oh, and we've decided to change colors up too. Since we went with a Vinyl window in a Taupe-ish Clay-e, Biscuit-like sort of color, we think we're going to do a Medium to Darkish Grey-Green color over the garage and house (twice as dark as the primer tints on the siding and trim on the second picture - those are intentionally lighter). We'll then paint the existing trimwork to match these new windows, as well. We think. Maybe. We've got a week or four to figure that part out, since we only have to have primer on for the final inspections.