Wednesday - Our new home has two long porches - each 10 feet wide and 60 feet long. Each porch roof is supported by six 10 inch by 10 inch fiberglass and steel columns. The large ceiling is an excellent place for Shiver Construction to add some of their signature finish work. To do this we chose 1 inch by 6 inch pine bead board planks. Each plank was 10 feet long so that there would be no joints.
Gary did most of the saw work while Josh Wells and Gary Wayne did the fitting and nailing. The pine bead boards will be stained a medium oak color - to match the front and rear doors. The ceilings will then be clear-coated. The 5 recessed LED lights will finish off the entry area. There are only 2 doors on this home - they will be unlocked by digital keypads. They can be set to automatically lock after an interval of time. That way the doors are always locked. The doors can also be opened with a master key.
They ran the front porch today and after a 60 foot run of 6 wide inch boards - the last board was as perfectly on square as the first one. The boards are from Scotch Gulf Lumber
In the attic there will be access to the top of the porch ceiling. The top is almost as pretty as the exposed bottom.
A few years ago - there was a big scandal with drywall from China. In China - they are allowed to use fillers that would be considered cancerous here. All of our drywall was made by National Gypsum on 9/23/13. It is one month old today.
Lulu met with Kevin Rodgers today. His cabinet shop is down on Woodville Highway - just south of town. Kevin will make all of Lulu's cabinets from scratch. The bathrooms - kitchen - and laundry cabinets will be Everhart Originals. Kevin makes all of the cabinets in Shiver Homes.
The attic drywall is ready and waiting for the foam spray insulation to be installed Monday. They had to bring the 12 foot drywall sheets in through the window because they would never make the turns in the steps. "They came in thru the attic window."
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