First plywood cladding

The north face and east face (east = back)

The first lot of cladding has started going on the back of the house.  It is plywood, and will be stained black.  We've also had the Great Cladding Debate concerning the non-plywood faces.  The bank manager won.  Macrocarpa it is!  I think we're leaving it untreated so that it will weather silver.

I've spent some quality time looking through the paint swatches and have presented The Architect with 9 shades of white to choose from.

The plumbers/roofers have continued their work on the flashings, and you can see that they've put the big flashings on the back of the house as well as most of the front.Two big boxes of lights have arrived, but they were all the small boring ones.  Hoping for the big, exciting ones!  Not all of the glass arrived on Friday for some reason, so the glass hasn't gone in yet.

The electrical engineer (Regan's dad) and electrician's apprentice #1 (Regan) went down on Saturday and started putting in the flush boxes that the electrical plugs will go into.  But the freezing winds that blew up soon put a stop to that!  It was snowing up where we live now.

Some floating flush boxes.