Drywall Day 6

The drywall is all but done, we have just a little in the basement yet to finish, we had to order more drywall for the basement since we weren't planning to drywall the garage and decided to. I saw an ad on Home Depots site yesterday that they had 20% off deck lumber, Bill went and ordered the lumber for our decks, we got a great deal with the 20% off. Home Depot will be out on Friday to deliver the rest of the drywall and the lumber for the deck, looks like we may be building a deck this weekend. This will definately make putting the siding on easier.

Drywall - Day 4 & 5

All of the drywall is hung on the main floor and garage. Tomorrow the drywall will be hung in the basement, then the taping and coating can begin. Vic is awesome, he did a great job and was fast.

Stydinger was out and back filled our trench before all of the rain came and washed away our stone dust again. Hopefully if it stops raining, we will have electric by the end of the week. Stydinger will come back next week to install the septic. The septic pipe entry hole is not in the right place so we will need to drill another hole and fill the existing hole with concrete and waterproofing before the ground is back filled back in around the house.

Siding has been put on hold briefly since it has been raining so much. Bill has been getting the lines in the electric panel hooked up and ready for electric before it is hot/active. He is not too far off from finishing this task.

Electric Power Poles

Two electric power poles were installed today, the transformer is on the pole closest to the house. Hopefully the final wiring will be completed tomorrow and we should have electric as of tomorrow. I guess it will be dependent upon the weather, since rain is likely we may not have electricity until Wednesday.

The drywallers were out again tonight, I have not been back to see what all was completed, but will update once I get back to the house to see the progress.

The insulators were out and insulated the garage and basement for us. Both of these rooms are now ready for drywall also.

Embarq was also out to install our phone lines in the trench. Our excavator will be back out this week to cover backfill the trench, widen our driveway at the entrance and install our septic system.

Siding Started

Today we had a house full of people there to help. Bill's mom, Rick, and Josh came out, as well as, Melinda, Bill, Xavier, Noah, Ben, Jacob, Leah, Dustin, Brya, Clay, Eve, Ava, and Farren. Dave and Heather also came and my Dad came out to help as well. Since the basement was the most important thing to get ready, Bill and my dad spent the morning framing the steps, and making sure the walls were ready for insulation. They also put the remaining foam board up. Then they got the starter strips up almost around the whole house to get it ready for siding. We were able to get almost the whole garage framed today. Bill and Melinda helped with getting some garbage cleaned up, which was a huge help. Elijah and I burned lots of wood scraps to get the house looking nice outside and ready for the excavator this week to install the septic. Dave and Heather also helped by cleaning up the basement so the insulators and drywallers could work better. This was a HUGE help. Josh, Xavier, Bill K., Dad, Bill, Dustin, Brya and Rick helped with the siding.
We served brats, dogs, chips, cookies, gatorade, and water. Mom was a big help in warming everything up for me today since I had worship at church and could not get to the house until afternoon. I made the brats the day before to make it easier on Mom Sunday afternoon.

Basement Framed

Larry came up and helped Bill finish framing the basement walls, they also framed the wall beside the steps and door way to the future bedroom in the basement. We have scheduled the insulator to be out on Monday, they will insulate the garage and basement for us. The drywaller will also be out Monday evening to begin Day 3 (Evening 3) of the drywall. Sunday we plan to finish framing around the steps in the basement and start siding.

Muddy Mess

Tonight we planned to get a lot done, but it was raining pretty bad and Bill got his truck stuck in the mud, he forgot to put it in 4 wheel drive, and ended up sliding into a hole by the electric trench. We were so upset because all of the stone dust that was put on the trench has run off due to the rain, since PP&L did not come out this week like they were supposed to. Now we will have to put more stone dust on, just another thing to add to our list of things to do.

Kitchen cabinets ordered

Island cabinets - Maple pearl white

Kitchen design layout

Corian countertop we want to go with

Laundry room cabinets

Bathroom cabinets - Maple toffee

Bathroom vanities - first two are for master bathroom, third is the kids vanity

Kitchen island - Will be in Maple pearl white

Maple Cafe cabinets for kitchen

We went over to Armstrong today during lunch to order the cabinets for the kitchen, bathrooms, and laundry room. We decided to go with an all-wood maple cabinets. We are going to go with cafe maple in the kitchen, toffee maple in the bathrooms, and all white in the laundry room. Since the laundry room has a small area, we thought the white would make it appear larger and seem more clean. The cabinet we chose for the laundry room also wipes down really nicely.