CBC News

Our friend Erin was having lunch with the anchor of the CBC Winnipeg 6:00pm newscast and they were talking about how everyone is doing the same stories regarding the "poor Canada Post Employee / Gas Meter Person / Construction Worker" having to work in the cold. Erin mentioned that she had friends who were renovating and we didn't have a roof on our house. This prompted a call from someone at CBC to see if there was a story and I sent them to the Blog. Apparently there was enough information as Christy, Sarah, Joshua and I were interviewed and gave a tour of the house. I am still trying to guess what the story is but there might be a segment on the 6:00 news tomorrow night. If there is I am sure there will be a link and I will post that here.

Walls are up!!

The last of the walls were built today - that was a feat in itself. The tall angled walls have really filled in the front corner and finished off the structure. The exterior sheathing will give the addition the additional "bulk" but the framework is there. The windows were delivered and we will be having the doors delivered tomorrow. All in all the shell should be completed in the next week.

This shot from the street looking South shows the angled wall and the openings for the two windows. To put the scale in perspective, the bottom of both windows are 7'-0" off the finished floor of the second floor and the top of the stairwell window is a further 5'-0" above that. The height of the stairwell will easily be 23'-0" from the dining room to the ceiling. Trust me there will not be a chandelier hung at all though that would look cool from outside. I just don't want to have to change that bulb!

This close up of the front corner shows the windows in greater detail.

Not surprisingly the amount of car traffic coming around this side of the bay has increased. Most people are probably wondering what the crazy people are doing building in December. Some cars are taking laps around or just stopping in front of the house to review things. I have given some tours to the curious when I happened to be out at the same time. I am sure that there are probably more curious people out there - hopefully this site will suffice for now. With the ADI group sign on the building now I probably should post a bit of a detail on our portfolio and have a link from the site to the Blog. It will be interesting to see if that drives traffic to the site!