Cupola One

I was not surprised the roofers, the slaters or the brick layers did not show up today. They were forecasting heavy rain this afternoon and Mike had already forewarned me. With the forecast for heavy rain for the next few days, I am not banking on finishing the exterior this week.

Other than a brief period around noon when it did rain heavily for about an hour, the weather today was sunny and humid.

Mike and Nate arrived around 7:00 am got the garage cupola installed.

Base in Place

Body in Place

 We had an appointment to visit Bob's (cabinetry) shop at noon, so we were not around when they put  on the copper roof. Due to its weight, Mike said he had additional help coming.

Mike cut a hole in the garage roof underneath the cupola as I requested. We'll have a chance over the next couple of days to see if we are going to have leaks.

We have decided to defer the installation of an exhaust fan underneath the cupola for now. Mike believes we will we be happy with the amount of natural draft we get due to the vented soffits and roof ridge vents.

Hole in Garage Roof

It appears they got the weather vane's compass correctly oriented.

We did visit Bob's cabinetry shop and met Don. The bar cabinets looked good. The visible fronts are the Sapele while the interiors are maple. They are still waiting for the doors to arrive in the next day or two. Don said they should start the wood finishing process next week. We asked Don about the status of the mantel piece. He was unaware. Later, Bob wrote saying that Don had not seen the drawings of the mantel yet but the materials should be here within the next week. Coincidentally, before leaving this morning, we got a call from Kim (stained glass) asking about the status of the bar cabinet door. They are getting close to wanting to start on the stained glass for the doors and need the final dimensions. I told her we were heading up to the cabinetry shop and, if possible, we would bring a door back with us for them to measure. Since the doors had not arrived, we told Kim that Bob should be getting with her in the next couple of days with an actual template of the doors.

Bar Cabinetry Without Doors

I also sent Bob some photos of the staining done in the sunroom. I told him the ceiling and trusses turned out darker and less uniform than we had expected. Further, if there were any questions in his mind before starting the finishing of the Sapele bar and paneling, he should come out and look for himself. He responded that he would be out tomorrow to look for himself.

I got a note from Eric (solar) early this morning saying he wanted to come out to meet us tomorrow and talk about the inverter rack. I responded that any time is fine, just let us know when to expect him. I finally got a reply around 5:30 pm saying he will be here tomorrow morning at 10:30 am.

We also never got the confirmation call we were told to expect from the Overhead Door company regarding tomorrow's scheduled garage door installation. These people have not been very impressive.

Upon leaving Bob's shop, T and I stopped by our local lighting store to pick up the garage south side exterior wall sconces, exchange two of the wall sconces we had picked up a couple of weeks ago and to decide on the sunroom ceiling fan. We accomplished all of the above. The fan we selected is the Emerson Zurich. We decided to not purchase the light attachment yet.

Ceiling Fan

The garage wall sconces we picked up are being discontinued. Their "normal" price was $97.00 each, but the close out price was $17.00 each. This is the same design, but a little bit smaller, than the five we purchased a couple of weeks ago (two for the north side of the garage, two for the south door of the sunroom and one for the west door of the sunroom). Those were also be discontinued and were normally $149 each, on sale for $25 each. That's nine lamps normally selling for $1,133.00 for just $193.00. Call me cheap, but I've been called worse and I'll accept those economics any day!

Garage South Wall Sconces