As we approached our home yesterday evening, we noticed that Adam, our builder was inside the home doing some quality checks. Since he knows that we come by each night, he wanted to go over some electrical issues with us.

Most of the electrical work had been completed, except in the kitchen and grand room which has the most number of lights and switches. In our kitchen and grand room area, we have a double tray ceiling. This means that the height of the ceilings are 10′ (outer part of the room), 11′ (transition step between 10′ and 12′) and 12′ (inner part of the room). Our kitchen uppers sit under the 10′ part, the lowers and countertop sit under the 11′ part and the area between the island and wall cabinets sit under the 12′ part. The ideal placement of the pot lights would be at the 11′ part, however because of crown molding that will be installed in the tray ceiling, there won’t be enough space for the large pot light fixtures to fit into. If we put the pot light fixtures in the 10′ area, there won’t be direct light for the area between the island and wall cabinets. If we put the pot fixtures in the 12′ area, there won’t be enough light to work on the countertops along the wall. After some going back and forth with Adam, we decided the best solution is to install 6 pot lights in the 12′ area and install about 3-4 along the 10′ area which will all be connected to the same switch.

All the windows except the big window over the entrance doors were finished being installed. The arches matching the arches above the windows had also been constructed.

The wood part of the house which is mainly the second floor was covered by a yellow paper/plastic. It seems that this might be the vapour barrier.

Despite all the rain we have been getting the last little while, they have been slowly making progress on the roof in between rain falls throughout the day. Most of the roof has been covered by a black plastic which I think might be used for water proofing and laid down before they start on the shingles.