carolina_room Photo Gallery by roxanneboscobel at pbase.com

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Where we used to have pavers for a make-shift patio	Fence is removed	Ready for the workers	And here they go!
Cutting through the concrete of the back porch	Working to remove the concrete and laying out the room size	Digging for the footers	Putting up the 4x4s
From the back	With the 4x4s waiting for concrete	Footer	Footer
Footer	Chipping away	Cutting into the carport roof for the 4x4	Smoothed out
From the side	The 4x4 footer by the porch slab	Spraying for termites under the slab and around the footers	And it rained the next day
Squish	Digging the full footers in the mud	With the rebar in place in the full footers	Corner showing rebar
Drilling to put in the connectors	Drilling into house slab for connectors	Connectors epoxied in place	Rebar and connectors
Connectors and one down in the footer	Cement truck and pumper out front	Pumping cement into the first footers	Pumping into footers
It was more solid than I would have thought	Moving dirt up over footers	Poured footers	Squish
Sploosh	Up against the house with minimal splatters	Starting to level it off	Dirt over footers
Leveling off	After 10 days of rain, they got started	And quickly put up the main beams	And started on the joists
Where it joins into the house	Joists	Joists	Joists
Joists on beams	Joists on beams	Working working	You can see the shape!
Filling in	Don climbed on the roof to take these	Board nailed to roof; joists nailed to board	The peak
Where it will join into the flat roof of the carport	Looking back	Delivering the roofing materials	directly to the roof!
Some plywood is down	From the inside	Where the gable, hip, and flat roofs meet	How it looks
Plywooded	Fitting the three roofs togethr	That extra wood is there for what? At the joint of the plywood?	Ummmm
Errrr	How it looks	Shingles are starting!	Juncture
How it looks	Up in the top	Cut off and header to support the flat roof	I guess you get to the point where you just whack away at it
Supporting the roof	Well, once they cover it up you'll never know its there.........heh heh	Space for the dog door!	How it looks with the rough in for the windows
Roof is done!	Juncture	Juncture	Juncture close up!
The first window goes in!	They went in fairly quickly; the glass doors went in the next day	All the inside surfaces are covered in carefully cut aluminum	Covering
I asked the builder, so how is this supposed to work with the insulation against the roof material?	When the inspector came later that day, he just said Oh no, that's all wrong, so they'll redo the insulation	Putting up the soffits and outside sheathing	Making a hole for the HVAC return
Just a closeup of the insulation gaps	The HVAC guy	Putting up the soffits	Corner soffit
Putting up outside soffits	HVAC run to front of room	HVAC return pulled in center of front of room	Kind of looking finished outside
Interesting use of flashing.....	Looking finished -- needs caulking and paint	Don looking at the dog door that needs a lot of adjustment...	The guys came and tore down the insulation from the roof
Putting up the beam for the flat ceiling which seems to be the best solution	Where the beam attaches on the house side	I said, is it supposed to curve like that? The guy said, we're fixing it now. It was straightend out.	Access panel framing
Sitting on a cleat	Access panel framing from the other direction	Sitting on a cleat against the center beam	Not yet sealed so last night's heavy rain came in under all the windows
And heavily under some of the windows	HVAC extended out to near the far windows	Showing HVAC position	The fastest gutter job I've ever witnessed
Splash guard at the junction	Done!	"We're coming in to remove the windows, um, right now"	Unscrewing and removing each of the panes
Some came out easily, others were very painted in	Pulling the mechanics out	After all the windows are out, cut a few things outside the frame and pull a little bit........	And the question about the header over the window is solved! The answer is yes!
Wooden siding, gap, inside wall	Corner construction	What's in the wooden walls around the windows	Insulation and the back of 60 year old plaster and metal lath
This tumbled out of the wall; it had long feathery things in addition to legs; we put it outside (~2.5" long)	Hmmmm we'll have the floor guys build a step	Sill of the door	How the door was framed
And since they're doing dusty work.....	All open!	Now one big room	Vapor barrier
Putting up vapor barrier	Drywall going up	More drywall	Intake for AC and access panel
done!	Drywall ceiling done, showing finish to aluminum around windows too	Smoothed out dog door access	Aluminum covering header over window
Love that ceiling color!	Light light blue	All painted	And you can see the finish around the windows
Except we still have rain coming in under the window.....	Electrician finally came! We have light!	And switches and outlets!	And molding along the ceiling
And molding above the opening	And they begin the patio and walkway!	They had to dig out roots with saws and chainsaws!	Next to the Carolina Room foundation
Putting down landscape cloth	Then crush and run over top	Down at the other end, cutting out a smaller patio in front of the shed	Digging roots!
Pushing around the gravel	Crush and run on top of landscape fabric	The two pipes are for future use; that's the tv cable	String for leveling they constantly tripped over
Crush and run base in place	And nicely flattened out	Pressing it all down	Ready for sand
Leveling the sand	The placement of the pavers went very quickly	Wow!	Looking back at Marty
The next morning, redoing the path (too wide)	Preparing more of the path	Sand and laying pavers!	There goes the path!
The barbeque in the flower bed for now...	Looking great!	Now you can see the full effect	the path's end
The smaller patio	Flattening out the concrete for tiling	Setting up the angle for the step	Smoothed out, with thinset and adhesive placed to hold down membrane
Membrane to keep tiles from cracking	Here's the pattern	Starting!	Grouting!
Excellent job building the step	With the grout in place	It looks amazing!	The only thing left is to take down the fence immediately behind the room, maybe later this week....
We have room for the chess table now	And a snug corner to read in	View from the Carolina Room out to the backyard	From the far end back to the house
Showing potentially the most important thing -- the dog door.......and Buffy loving the tile floor

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