THIS post is all about the west addition from way back in the olden days when I started this blog!! Remember? The Room in "Room for More" was a chronicle of the work on the addition we built on to our house to make room to bring Matt's mom into our home, and also ended up giving us plenty of room to bring Krassi home (and, though we had no idea at the time, also the room for B and T! Our original house, cute as it was, would have had a hard time fitting three wheelchairs, two standers, and a feeding chair (or two?) into it, especially if we also wanted to have room for twelve people...and three cats!)
Well, it's been pretty much forever since I've posted anything about the house addition. The last, I believe was back in April when Matt posted about passing our electrical inspection and getting ready to set up our final local inspection to close out the permit. Well, I think I forgot to post about that, but the news was while we did pass the electrical, we did NOT pass our general inspection! That came as a surprise to us. But as he walked up the stairs to Barb's rooms, he looked really closely at the windows...and refused to pass us - the windows were supposed to be tempered!!!
Sure enough, when you read through the code, yes, windows of that size within that distance of the stairs and that far off the floor are required to be tempered. Neither Matt nor our window supplier caught that when we put those windows in years ago.
So we were left with two options: replace the windows, or install a bar comparable to a handrail at handrail height across the windows.
We chose to replace the windows, which was NOT CHEAP, but we decided that overall, it was the right thing to do. Thankfully, we were able to just replace the sashes, and didn't need to do anything with the frames, since the glass is in the sash.
Four months later...
So yesterday, we finally passed our final inspection, and the addition is now finally (at least as far as the city goes), complete.
This is significant because we're hoping to pull a new permit soon to put in the egress window in our original basement for what will become Owen and Krassimir's bedroom so B can have their main level bedroom when she [someday] comes home!
Matt's hoping he can tweak things enough with the new header that he can use these two, nice 60" tall window sashes that we just happen to have around the house, and just have to buy new frames. It's the sash that's the expensive part, right? ;) (His original figuring was for 54" tall windows; we'll have to see if we can make the 60" ones work. If we can, that would be a nicely rounded out end to the story!)
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