Month: January 2010

A Normal Weekend

A little time spent with family, a little time spent with friends and a little (or a lot) of time spent working on the house. That’s usually the way of it 😉

Spackling progress made this weekend:
– spackled the right side of the corners (2nd coat)
– spackled the wall side of the upper corners

Ryan also got some insulation in the bathroom up, that’s going pretty well (one wall almost done!)

What’s left now??
– 1 coat on ceiling screws {done}
– 2 coats on ceiling seams {1 done}
– 1 coat on ceiling side of upper corners {done}
– 1 coat on corners (left and right) {done}
– touch ups and sanding {done on walls/not ceilings}

3 day weekend

This weekend we headed back to NY for a friend’s PHD graduation party on Saturday. We got a later start back on Sunday than planned so just relaxed Sunday evening.

Monday however we got some work around the house done. In the morning we taped the upper corners in the tvroom finally so now that entire room as tape up!

Later in the day once it was dry I then spackled the left hand side of all the corners and did the final coat on all the wall seams.

Unfortunately the ceiling is lagging behind because we need either both of us or Ryan to have some time, I can’t do those myself.

We got some fiberglass free insulation for the bathroom walls (sound proofing) today as neither of us were looking forward to cutting and messing with the fiberglass insulation.

We bought a truck

And we worked on the house 🙂
Saturday we got the first real coat on the seams (walls only) completed and the third coat on the screws (walls only).  Then we did the left side first coat of the corners.

Sunday I did the right side of the corners and some cleanup (as well as finally dusting and vacuuming the WHOLE house – which was very much needed!)

The rest of saturday was spent out shopping for a new truck (trading in the BMW).  We were actually going to buy a 2009 and had a few picked out but with 30,000 miles usually on them it was smarter to go with the new tuck – no miles – for only 1000 more.  We bought a 2010 Toyota Tacoma TRD Sport in Silver.  It’s a 4 door (double cab) with an extended bed.  We should be able to even pick it up tonight!
: We picked up the truck Monday night and here’s a picture from Tuesday as it’s warming up!
truck

Vacation – to work on the house!

This week found us home to work on the house all week and there was plenty to do!

We started by taping the seams in the TV Room and spackling the screws. 

Then we repeated this process on all seams and screws (walls and ceilings).

Then we worked on getting the bathroom ready – some electrical wiring needed to be done.  We purchased sconces for the bathroom vanity lighting and put up boxes for them and wired them.

Next up we worked on putting up hardibacker on the exterior wall of the bath (shower) – this was a VERY slow process since we had a hand tool for scoring the cement board.  By Friday evening the exterior wall was at least completed. – Here’s an in progress picture:

Friday we also taped the corners of the tv room (inside and the one outside corner).

This coming weekend is a family weekend celebrating xmas so no more house work will get done until the following weekend!