Progress - Weeks of April 27 and May 4

Apologies are in order to our loyal followers as it has been several weeks since we've last posted with photos and a narrative of the construction progress. A quick refresher....the extension is torn completely down, our last photos documented the excavation of the new foundation, and the focus of our contractor's attention continues to be aimed at the extension.

Unfortunately, we don't have any foundation or concrete pouring photos and we've skipped right ahead to the framing. Without further delay...

The steel arrived on site and was laid out in the backyard to be cut. Don't ask us how they got those beams back there.






Bird's eye view of the strucutural steel from the 3rd floor. Those beams will be cut on site to form the structural columns as well as the cross beams which will rest atop the columns.



In addition to the structural framing, work is also progressing in the parlor. Below you can see the channeling into the plaster in order to run the wiring for the lighting. For those curious about that pink stuff on the wall, that is a binding agent for the new skim coat/paint to adhere to the existing plaster work. Matt was quite taken by that color pallette and was considering those colors throughout the house however isn't quite confident enough in his masculinity. Brokeback Brooklyn.

This past week, the steel was cut and assembly has commenced.

Bird's eye view from the 4th floor.

Also, our windows arrived. All 28 of them plus 2 new rear exterior doors.

On tap for this week....continuation of the steel framing on the rear extension, radiators, and perhaps some window installation.