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 April 23rd, 2015Most of the doors have been delivered. So the trim work continues. Here the sliding door is installed. There are two sliding doors in the house. This one is the door between master bedroom and master bathroom. There’s another sliding door in the basement for the laundry room.
April 20th, 2015Cleiton Batista from Batista Contractor is here today to work on the door frames. One might ask why is the door frame being installed before you even have drywall? We are doing a no trim finish. Meaning that there will be no trims around door frames or window frames. So drywall will have to go all the way to the door frame. And that’s why door frame has to be installed before drywall is hung.
November 16th, 2014I decided to caulk all the windows myself instead of getting some contractor to do the job. And because I choose a white exterior colour with black window frame, the caulking becomes a slightly more complicate job because you want to make sure the caulking lines are crisp. I am using LePage QUAD White Sealant to caulk my windows. So first, I use painter’s tape and tape up all the window frames.
November 9th, 2014There are quiet some big gaps between the foundation wall and the basement windows, so when I found some time, I decide to foam up the basement window myself. Just like the rest of the house, I used Great Stuff Window & Door Insulating Foam from Home Depot and filled up all the gaps.
October 20th, 2014More framing done. Today all the basement windows are installed. This one below is the one on the west side.
September 14th, 2014Decided to seal the window and the door with some insulating foam today. Bought a couple of cans of Great Stuff Window & Door Insulating Foam from Home Depot. And just go up and down everywhere and put foams in between all the openings between the window and door frame and the rough opening.
A few rough opening is way bigger. So in total I used 11 cans of the sealant. A few places probably can use a bit more foam. If I get time, I will add some more. But in general it should be all good now. Later I can try find some foam backing rod and caulk the windows and doors on the outside.
June 6th, 2014Got the rear entrance door installed today. It has to be installed so that the stucco work can complete on the back. The area around front entrance door will have wood cladding. So the front entrance door can wait until later. This is a very heavy door. Thermally broken aluminum door with a dual pane tempered glass. A 60″ vertical ladder pull is used as the door handle. The ladder pull is offset toward the middle of the door to give access to the lock. For the lock, it is paired with a digital lock that accepts a normal key, a key code, or a RFID tag, and it has an electric motor that will automatic lock / unlock the door.
May 30th, 2014The doors are now fixed and delivered to me again. The ladder pull is installed and the threshold now are both black. The one to the left is the front entrance door and the one to the right is the rear entrance door which is a mirror image of the front.
May 22nd, 2014Day 2 of windows installation. Yesterday there’s not enough person on site so that those big windows cannot be installed. Today there are 4 person here to lift all the heavy windows and sliding doors up to where they need to be and get them installed. This is the window in front of the house towards the west. This is a massive 7′ wide 6.5′ tall window.
May 21st, 2014Today the windows is being installed. The windows are all dual pane low-e PVC windows painted black inside and outside.With the PVC window painted black inside out, it almost look like they are aluminum frames. The windows are 4mm glass, with 11/16″ air space argon filled. They are all custom ordered since the sizes are designed specifically for the room and the placement of the windows.
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