A proper chimney - part 1

I'm choosing the chimney as my starting point for getting back into more detailed construction-related posts since it seems to follow nicely from where I left off with a post about the air-tight ceiling, which I ended by showing a photo of two foam boards acting as a place-holder for my future chimney.
Installing the chimney was pretty straight-forward with the biggest consideration aforehand being careful measurement. A "proper chimney" should go straight up (without any bends), while all clearances to combustible materials (from bottom to top) are maintained, and while also having the chimney "land" where the stove is supposed to go.
Prepare for many a photo "below the fold".

The finished install: In this case the chimney had to land in just the right spot so that the stove could sit correctly on it's tiled pad next to the air-supply duct I roughed in oh-so-many years ago. There wasn't much wiggle-room to play with but fortunately luck was on my side here, and there happened to be just room enough to find a path through the roof framing. Measure thrice, cut once, I say.

Burning Down The House - Talking Heads

It lives!

Howdy, blog-readers. After a protracted hiatus, I have returned to dip my toe once more into the inter-web's murky currents. Much has transpired with this house project over the almost 2.5 (!) years that's passed since I last posted to this blog. To bring things up to date, in a nutshell, I am just now getting ready for an occupancy inspection which I hope will happen in the first week of June - almost 5 years to the day that this project began!
Now, given that I have some catching up to do between where things actually are and where I last left them on this blog, I thought I would begin with a quick tour of the present state of things before I rewind to cover the missing processes that got me here.

Still plenty to do on the exterior (cladding for example), but things have gotten quite habitable inside.

The World Ender - Lord Huron