Part 3

No action on the construction front today,but I did expect that so no big deal.

Our contractor did however happen to pay me a visit a work tonight which was very unexpected.My wife showed up about 5 minutes after he did and for the better part of an hour(while I was supposed to be doing work) we discussed windows,siding,shingle colours and what we could possible do with that front door. If you look at the picture to the right, that door between the 2 windows,well it's not a very practical door.Once you open the door you end up right in our living room,there is no entrance or anything which doesn't really work.

So here is an inside view of that.As you can see when you come in the house you are right in our living room.There was a wall there for a room at one time right where that tote is sitting on the floor,I think that's where the wall started.This meant at one time the door did make sense,because there was kind of an entrance there.We got to thinking that maybe if we got rid of the door and put in 2 large windows that would make a little more sense.So we mentioned this to our contractor tonight,he said it was possible but that we would have to put a door somewhere else.Then we thought maybe put a door in our bedroom that would open onto a deck.He said that would work and that he had a little deck from another job he had worked on that we could use. If we did that we would only need about $150 for some more materials.The part that was going to cost, we be to put a larger window in where that small one is with the air conditioner in it.Then reason being that he would have to do work inside to open it up and support it properly.Also the expense of the larger window.About $900 we were told depending on the size.So he told us to sleep on it  and we would discuss it more on Friday.

Well we didn't sleep on it so to speak but we did talk about it after I got home from work.Our feeling was, we are over budget all ready, we don't know what kind of other surprises he will find when he takes the old siding off and it's just one more thing that we don't need at this point.If we were further along and we knew how much we had left in the budget,then it might have been possible.But right now it's a no go.

Now you are all up to date and I will post the notes from our meeting on Friday night.

If it happens.