Since we used the front livingroom I thought I’d share the picture from Christmas Eve…
Merry Christmas!
Month: December 2013
Livingroom sheetrocked!
Our contractor continued to come work on the livingroom the week before Christmas, getting the 1/2 walls built, the beam up and helping my neighbor sheetrock on Friday. Everything was moved to the basement (well most tools were), and the room was cleaned up. All in time to use the room for Christmas!
On monday I got the room cleaned up, vacuumed, mopped etc. Then Tuesday we got the tree and set it up – Christmas Eve 🙂 The room has been a great play room and it’s not even finished yet! We’ll empty it back out next week, and start the process of getting it finished! Counting down the weeks now I hope!
Floor finished
As he hoped our contractor was able to finish laying in the floor by the end of the day Tuesday! So the floor and the sheetrock in the cupola are done! And it’s not even the end of the week yet, we still have Friday (and today) for more progress. Our contractor is coming back today most likely to start on the 1/2 walls and a few small areas of floor that need patching. Friday hopefully most of the sheetrock can be finished in that room entirely and even part of the front hall. Then we’ll take a break on progress so we can have our tree up and use the room for a week or two. Then we’ll get back to finishing the room (taping/spackling/trim etc).
I’m very excited to use the room for xmas. And pretty soon we’ll have a fully useable finished playroom!
More progress
Saturday our neighbor finished up sheetrocking the cupola, it’s great having that done in time to put up a xmas tree this year! Our contractor got the rest of the floor cut out in a feathered pattern for re-installation.
Sunday during naptime I got the lights in the livingroom wired down to the panel box and switches and pigtails all installed so there’s work light now after 4pm 🙂 I also put a temporary light in the diningroom which has had no light for a while 🙂 I cleaned up some wiring in the basement too although that’s an ongoing project. Eventually I’ll do a full panel box clean-up, make everything nice and tidy. I think we’ve finished wiring pretty much everything that is downstairs, except the microwave outlet. So anytime I have a free day with daylight to do it I can do that project.
Today our contractor is back and he’s putting in the floor again. We have the saved stuff he pulled up (what was saveable) as well as what we saved when we pulled up the upstairs diningroom. It’s going great so far for such a tricky fill in job. He has to leave early today but he’s coming again tomorrow and I think based on the progress he’ll be able to finish tomorrow no problem. I think our neighbor is coming over Friday to start taping maybe, that would be great.
Our plan is to get our tree on next Monday and it will only stay up for a week this year so we can get back to finishing this room. Luckily we’ll be home a lot that week to enjoy it at least.
Friday sheetrocking
The contractor and neighbor were back over today while I worked from home. They got the ceiling of the cupola prepped and sheetrocked and then my neighbor started the walls while our contractor planned out our 1/2 walls he’s going to build and went and got materials.
We ran out of sheetrock so that’s item one for my neighbor tomorrow, then finishing up the walls in there. Our contractor is going to start working on feathering in the floor again. I plan to do some electrical work and maybe some grouting prep?
I’m very happy to see progress on the weekends again. I think we can see an end in sight (far away) again, it was looking dismal for a while!
Progress Weekend
We hired our contractor and our neighbor to do some work part time for us on the front livingroom and they got started Friday, Saturday and Sunday this weekend so we have some great progress to report.
FRIDAY:
Our neighbor’s first job was to move a ton of stuff to the basement, clearing out the front livingroom, this took most of friday outside of any help he had to give our contractor.
Our contractor’s first job is to repair the floor in the cupola, it was slanting badly, very noticeable once the radiator was removed so he pulled up the floor friday, including the subfloor.
SATURDAY:
On Saturday Ryan finally had time to work on the house! After months of working weekends he had one off. So after Alex’s gym class he got working on tiling the shower. Our contractor had picked up materials to repair the joists in the cupola and my neighbor came over in the afternoon and started sheetrocking the livingroom outside of the cupola. Oh and I got to do some electrical to get the fan wired to the new switch.
SUNDAY
Sunday we went out to breakfast (like usual) and stopped by home depot to get a new door for the bathroom. We decided to go with a new door because it’s an upstairs out of the way door and I wanted a smaller door since it opens out into the hallway.
Ryan then hung the door (i helped during naptime!). Our contractor continued work on the floor and our neighbor sheet rocked the other wall in the livingroom.
Next up our contractor insulated the floor and put down the new subfloor with help from our neighbor. Ryan continued tiling and I did some cleanup.
Ryan finished the shower tiling by Alex’s bedtime so once I put her down I helped and we finished the floor by 9pm. It was tough, and very cold outside cutting tiles but it’s done!
Next up on the bathroom is to get the trim done (including baseboards). Then painting trim and grouting, okay really we have to remove a bunch of thinset from the grout lines first in one section, that will take a while. We’ll see if we can get some prep done before next weekend so maybe we can get it grouted next weekend? Here’s hoping Ryan doesn’t have to work next weekend, that would be great.
Our neighbor is going to continue to work Fridays, they are going to sheet rock the cupola this friday, the goal is to have the floor fixed before xmas so we can put our tree in that area with sheetrock up (unfinished) and a floor! Then in January we’ll get that room finished up hopefully. Eventually this room will be Alex’s play room, i’m VERY excited!