Saturday, November 14, 2009

Doorway (ish...)

See that small section of weather-beaten Tyvek pictured below? That poor piece of Tyvek has been waiting for almost a year to be put to good house-wrapping use. During that year it was buffeted by winds, wrapped up and nailed to the wall, urinated on by dogs and suffered various other indignities. Why was it waiting you ask? It was waiting because until today the small section of wall that it was supposed to cover did not exist. Today that wall came to be. This was the opening by which we have accessed the addition ever since the rest of the walls have gone up. Today we put up three studs, hammered some sheathing on, and wrapped it up. No more can we access the addition via the front porch. How do we get into the addition you ask? Read on, MacDuff...
Witness below. It is a hole cut through the wall of the entryway of our house. When you look through that hole you can see part of my head and part of Grace. That's right; this opening is the small beginning of a doorway into the addition from our house. It will eventually be enlarged to more door-like proportions but it's exciting to get a bit of an idea what things will look like.
One snag (there's always a snag). See just to the bottom left of the "doorway"? That's an outlet. It would have ended up in the middle of our doorway if we continued according to plan. Given the options of having an electrical outlet in the middle of our bedroom door or crawling under the house to reroute some wiring, we opted for the latter and this will be taken care of in due time.

2 comments:

Joyce said...

If you leave the doorway narrow, and perhaps make it a little shorter, the addition can be on "hobbit" scale. That might be easier than rerouting the wiring?

Al said...

i hadn't thought of that... it's worth considering...