Siding FINISHED after 30 workdays since July.

It was 22 degrees F when I arrived in the Yodelin parking lot this morning. No snow since last week, so it was an easy walk in. (Warmed up to 32 degrees by the time I returned to the car.)

What's wrong with the picture? (Zoom in.)This was just up the hill from our driveway.

(They got it uprighted with help a few hours later.)

The day's before/after picture.  

Installed 15 pieces to finish off installing the Ipe on the cantilever today. Feels good to know that project has a check mark next to it.

According to my travel expense ledge, we started installing the siding on July 30th by flashing the flying beams.  It took 30 work days over 132 elapsed calendar days (or 19 elapsed calendar weeks) to complete all the siding. 

The total cost including the metal siding and trim, the Ipe wood, thousands of screws, a bunch of drill bits, and some tool rental (including the crane) came to about $11,000. (I need to sell my pumpjacks now that the project is finished.) And I have no idea how many hours of my time and many others, since we've had a multitude of helpers up to the Haus on various days. Lots.

Now, let's take just a moment to enjoy the fruits of our labor...

 Let it snow. Let is snow. Let is snow.

Next up: Deck railing.

Olaf's first appearance for the 2018-19 snow season

I figured it was about time for Olaf to make his appearance for the new snow year. He had to change the formatting and style of his chart to track multiple snow years. The chart below shows the snow accumulation for the same calendar time of multiple years. Orange is last year. Blue is this year.

You can see that we've started this year a little behind where we were last year. Dry, cold and sunny this week, but snow's in the forecast for this weekend.

Siding completion so close we can taste it

Didn't get up to the site until noon today. Katie needed to take pictures for Eliza's basketball team this morning.  The last two pieces of metal corner trim arrived this week. I strapped them to the top of my SUV, and we carried them in to the Haus. (Snowmobile still won't start.)

We had a drop-by visitor shortly after arriving. He was brave enough to drive in, but he also has a load of tires in back and he has 4-wheel-drive LOW.

I didn't take pictures of our progress until we were ready to leave at about 5:30. Dark pictures, even with lighting correction.

Corner trim installed left of the front door.

Corner trim installed right of the front door.

After completing the corner trim, the remainder of the day and evening were devoted to putting the Ipe' on the ceiling of the overhang. We developed a pretty good system that allowed us to measure once, then cut, drill and mount three pieces before measuring again. My shoulders and the ladder's reach gave out simultaneously at about 5:30 pm.

You can see there are about 10 more pieces to install at the very end. It was a shame to quit before finishing, but the last bit is going to take some creativity to wrestle with ladders resting on stairs leaning against the Haus.

We can definitely finish the wood on the overhang next weekend, at which point we'll officially be DONE WITH SIDING.  To put the siding project in perspective: With the exception of only one weekend, I've been coming up every weekend, with a smattering of additional days added in for good measure, since August.

Looking forward to moving on to the exterior deck posts and rails.