Roof is finished ... or at least, "topped out"
Today was a nice milestone, the roof of the addition is complete. Well, they've done all the work from the outside. Inspection will be tomorrow and they plan to start putting the shingles on. We'll try to match the existing shingles, but may be a little difficult. So we will have to make do with the best match possible. If it looks really bad, when we do the next addition, we will re shingle the whole thing.
As you can see from the pictures, the "new" part blends really nicely with the original house. with the paint and shingles in place, it should look like it was all built at the same time.
The new roof is currently adorned "island style", apparently this is a common "tradition" in construction ... I like it ... maybe we should keep it.
Tomorrow they will start "inside", so we spent a bunch of time discussing the options for what we want. In particular, we are having tray ceiling installed that will raise the ceiling from 8ft9in to almost 10ft. This will give everything a very large feel.
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Looks fantastic John, gotta feel great to not only see such steady progress but to have such a good group and relationship with Steve. You'll have to hang onto his contact info after you're done!
It was also fun to see the custom they have on the roof as this is pretty much exactly the same as in Europe though of course there they use evergreen tree branches so it looks like there is a Xmas tree on the top of every new house being built or remodled. Not sure what the original story on this is but it's a nice touch and interesting that it is so wide spread. Do you see this a lot in FL? I don't know of it being common in North America.
Not sure about the custom ... I'll ask tomorrow.
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