House Build- Windows are In!

Our house build pace has been painfully slow, but, now that the windows are in, it looks like there has actually been some real progress. The recent heat wave hadn't been helping. The window crew was installing in temperatures of near 40C. Even our site's cooling afternoon sea breezes weren't enough to keep them cool and we really appreciated their hard work in uncomfortable conditions to get us to this stage. Weather has cooled a bit now, hopefully that will help to speed up the pace and our move-in date!

The house wrap and roof membranes are also on which means we are pretty much weathertight now. Once the concrete floor slab is laid and the doors are on we'll be at lockup stage and about 1/3 complete. Still a long way to go, but, we'll get there eventually.

The windows are by All Weather Windows, Apex Series. We're loving the look of the black acrylic wrap and wide trim on both inner and outer surfaces. We didn't actually see them before we chose them, so, we're happy that they turned out as imagined. The square, 'four pane' windows were tricky. We would have preferred an awning window, but, they were out due to egress requirements, so, we decided on a casement window with simulated divided lights and special egress hinges instead. We think they turned out well.

The 'letterbox' window in the kitchen will be totally framed by cabinets. Hopefully, it will turn out as we imagined.

A sliding patio door (only five feet wide, but, functional) leads from the kitchen out to the elevated sun deck.

The tall living room window is so long it had to be packed separately and the crew commented (more than once!) on how difficult it was going to be to hoist it into place, but, they did it and we love how it perfectly frames the view of tall trees adjacent to the deck and house.

The west-facing, floor-to-ceiling window wall allows us to see the sky, across the Alberni Inlet to Arbutus Ridge, north to the Beaufort mountain range (still with snow on top in August) and south down the Inlet. Sunset views should be spectacular.

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