Home Construction (Day 28 - August 21)

Today they seem to have finished with the floor of our porch:


I must say, the porch looks nice from the side.

Also, they've added a window on the right side of the house (this is the window over the staircase). The funny thing is, they added it right after I questioned them about the water leaking into the basement through the wall. Their explanation was that our missing window on the second floor was causing it:


This was our first time standing on our front patio. Quite roomy and nice:



Our gas pipes? There are a bunch of warning stickers about not smoking around there, lighting them on fire, or performing weird electrical experiments near them. Must be the gas pipes:


They say if we smell something funny, run out of the home, don't try to "find" the gas leak using a match. I'm sorry. Who finds a gas leak using a match?! I guess someone somewhere did, otherwise the warning wouldn't be there.

Anyway. They also completed all the windows in the back of the home (the ones left were all in the basement area), so now it looks all finished:


Just very blue, that's all. Yesterday we still didn't have basement doors and windows, but today we have both:


Other small changes outside the home include:

1. The water faucet:


2: A couple of air vents: (this is the oxygen intake for the fireplace)



and (not shown) we have a vent from the kitchen out to the back of the home -- for the fan over the stove.

Inside the home, walking in from the patio using the main door, which now also has a door knob:




They've completed the window over the staircase - we were a bit disappointed that they remembered this window should be small. In the beginning they had made the window frame much bigger than this window was supposed to be - and we were so happy with that mistake! Oh well, here is the end result:



They also completed our sewage drain. Let's not talk about what is going to go down there:


Basically they've completed all the changes for our exterior (except the siding) - and it is now time to mark our territory. I left that duty for the Russian, who learned it from the Learning Channel, or the Discovery Channel or something:





We're not going near that corner of the home again. Ever.