Radiant Floor Heat

This weekend we managed to get the heat transfer plates and tubing installed in the dining room, living room, bathroom and our bedroom.  We will have to wait on the rest of the cabin until next weekend, but we should be able to finish it pretty quickly now.  We may use some aluminum flashing to fill in some of the larger areas that do not have transfer plates covering them.

Sleeping Loft

The floor of the loft is down and the pony walls are built.  After this picture was taken, the guys put the boxes and wiring in for the smoke detector, 3-way light switch and a couple outlets.  We're still trying to decide what we are going to do for beds up here, but 1 thought is a couple full size memory foam mattresses so the kids can all just sleep in sleeping bags on top of the mattresses.
 

Sleeping Loft

With the pitch of the ceiling being much steeper this time around, we opted to include a loft above the second bedroom and bathroom.  There will be a ladder coming down between the 2 doors to get up and down.  We plan to put carpet and some twin size memory foam mattresses in so the kids can all sleep up there and the parents can have the bedrooms.  With the queen size hide-a-bed, we can sleep around 10.
 

Dried In

The gable peaks are all covered with plywood.  The battens still need to go up, but the cabin is fully covered except of the bedroom window.  We have the window on order and it is expected to arrive in the next week or 2.  The under side of the overhangs all have tongue and groove, which gives it a nice finished look.
 

Retaining Wall - Again

In order to do the underground power last fall, we had to take a big section of this retaining wall apart and dig a 4 foot deep trench right through the middle of it and over to the house.  By the time the power was done, the weather had turned and we could not get it put back together.  So today was the day.  We still have some dirt to move around at the top of the hill but there is no point in doing that until the contractors are done with the house.
 

Lake View

Since we had to take it all apart anyway, we decided to make the window in our bedroom considerably bigger.  It will now be almost 1/2 again as tall and 6" wider.  We will still have a single hung on each side with a picture window in the middle, but there will not be any mullions between them this time around.  Now I think we need to talk about taking out the tree.
 

Radiant Floor Heat

The grid for the radiant floor heat is completely finished throughout the cabin.  We plan to install the heat transfer plates and the tubing next weekend or the one after.  I'm still trying to plan when we hook up the manifold.  I need to call the state about a permit, so that may dictate when we hook it up.  If I can, I would like to wait until the drywall is done though.  We would get a much better finish if we can wait.
 

Retaining Wall

The girls came up to help us at the cabin this morning.  While I was getting some of the flooring done, Kelly and the girls worked on preparing to fix the retaining wall outside their bedroom window.  We had to take this part of the wall apart to run the power underground.  All we need to do now is put down the concrete mix for a base and stack the blocks.