DRYWALL PARTY AT OUR HOUSE!! EVERYONE'S INVITED!!

We are having a drywall party at our house on Saturday Sept 19. All are invited! Pizza and beer AFTER the drywall is hung!

As stated in an earlier post, we had hired two guys to put in ventilation fans/lights in our two existing bathrooms. They never showed and never answered any calls nor did they respond to any voice-mails. That has put us about a week behind schedule now. We've had to move forward and do the work ourselves.

The upstairs bathroom fan has been installed and is working. The downstairs fan was worked on over the weekend and should be finished up early today. Hopefully the inspector can then come this afternoon or tomorrow morning.





Sunday morning, while everyone was at church, I managed to knock out the insulation for the the first floor. It is now ready for the drywall.





I will start this evening on the upstairs and will hopefully have it fully insulated by Thursday. Then it's time to get the party started!!

WHOO-HOO!!!

Another inspection has been passed. The rough-in electrical inspection was held today at noon and it passed. According to Papa B, it passed with only a couple of pointers from the inspector.

On Tuesday, the guys who are putting in our ventilation fans in the bathrooms are coming. Once that's done we'll get another inspection on the "mechanicals". This should only take a 1/2 day for the work and hopefully later Tuesday or at least on Wednesday we can get that inspected.

Looks like we can start the insulation! WHOO-HOOO!!

WIRING IS MOVING ALONG QUICKLY

First, I want to appologize for the lack of updates. When the work is on a smaller scale, it takes awhile for it to really stand out.

Second, we want to really thank Papa B for all the work he's been doing on the house. We could never have done this without him and what little work we've been able to help out with is really teaching us a lot. THANKS PAPA!!

Third, we also want to thank Greg R for stopping by on Sunday to help out. Sorry we couldn't use you more, but we promise the next time you'll get a work out!!

So, to update all on the progress....

A lot of the wiring has been laid. Thursday or Friday of this week, we have someone coming in to install new ventilation fans in our two existing bathroom. Once that's done we should be ready for the inspector to come give us the okay. When we get that, then the outlets and such can be fully hooked up and we can start the insulation and drywall.

Speaking of drywall, did you know that they have to inspect the screw pattern when you put the drywall up???

Here's some pics from the last week or so.

HELP!! I'M BEING EATEN BY MY HOUSE!! (or Days 51-53 of our project)

We're bAAAAAAAaaaaaaaack......

Sorry for the lack of posts the last couple of weeks. Not much has been done until recently. We've all been a bit busy with trips and family visits and such. This week we got back into it.

So, to begin, I was eaten by the house...


Okay, not really. We started doing some wiring in the new addition. I had to crawl (no pun intended) into the crawl space. The wire then fed down to me and through the wall into the basement. It was not the easiest thing to do as to access the crawl space you go through the old basement window. On the plus side, because the crawl space is so new, no bugs had moved in yet.

We now have one working outlet in the first floor part of the addition. This works on a switch that was already there that worked an outside light. This is helpful as we have the ducts for the AC closed off in there so now we can use a fan.


We've also run a lot of wire and put in some boxes. Still have some holes to finish drilling and running the rest of the wire. Our friend Greg has experience with this so he's going to stop by on Sunday afternoon to help us finish it.

DAY 39 - DONE!!

DONE!!

They're done!!

Whoo-Hooo!!


Oh wait...this means now we have to do the work....

Okay, here's where we stand as of this morning. Dumpster is still on our driveway, but should be removed sometime in the next couple of days. That will fully finish the contractor's job. Next up is wiring. With the help of Kristen's dad and hopefully our good, dear, wonderful, outstanding friend Greg (you know who you are), we'll get the wiring done. After that we have to put a new vent/fan in our first floor powder room (never had one as it had a window to the outside; window is now gone so we have to have a fan). Then we move on to insulation, drywall, yada, yada, yada.

We won't be starting anything until Monday at the earliest so be sure to stop back for more. Also, there probably won't be daily updates as we'll be moving slower.

So who wants to start a poll on when we'll be done with the inside?!?!? I'm guessing two weeks...okay, maybe by Christmas we'll be done...

DAY 38 - SO CLOSE!!!

We are SOOOOOOOOOOOOO very close to having the outside work completed. They have a "couple hours of work" to do today and then they are finished (we hope!). We will start the inside work next week.

Yesterday they finished most of the work on the front of the house...


Looks like I missed at party at the house yesterday as this big truck showed up...


The big truck was delivering the topsoil for the grass reseeding. That is a lot of dirt they put down so hopefully the grass will take off as we were having some issues anyway...


And this is what I came home to...I was so happy to see it....Means they are almost done....



Now the bad news...The @#$%@)#(&% dumpster is probably going to be on the driveway for another 4-5 days. According to our contractor, the company that takes care of the dumpster could come at 4am to pick it up or could come in a week. It's whenever they have a truck free to come get it. No telling when. I was hoping to blacktop the driveway this weekend, but that's not happening.

DAY 37

Okay, as posted we said we were having a bit of a row with the contrator. We were assured by the partner that they would finish up yesterday (Tuesday). Well, they got most done, but didn't quite finish.

All of the siding is now done....


...but they didn't finish the front gutter or finish the moulding.


I'm a little leary of the way they are just covering the dental moulding. I was under the impression they were taking it off. If they were clearer about covering it I would have got up there one last time and painted it again to help seal it. Oh well, nothing for it now.

Kristen had a final walkthrough this morning (Wednesday) and listed out all the items we had issues with. They are supposedly correcting them today once they finish the moulding and gutter work.

Top-soil was also delivered today, but the Bobcat hadn't arrived by the time Kristen left. Hopefully they got all cleaned up and the Bobcat has arrived and they are putting down the new topsoil and re-seeding.

Called to have the dumpster removed and could take up to 5 days or so before they can get out to get it. Of course the contractor said they could also come at 4am tomorrow to get it as well. We just won't know until it's gone.