Month: March 2016

Sheetrock time!

Well we had planned to hire someone to sheetrock but they never got back to us and after missing our first appt we didn’t like the track record of having to re-schedule or re-reach out ourselves (I did reach out by email asking about the quote and got no response) so I guess he didn’t want the job and we didn’t have a lot of options around here.

So this weekend Ryan picked up some sheetrock so he and his dad could start the project.  I’m trying to get in the mood and excited about taping and spackling – I really don’t mind doing it, it’s just tough to find the time with the kids.

First up this weekend Ryan and his dad put down the new subfloor in the bathrooms – new plywood which really stiffened things up then hardi-backer.  They also built the stand for the tub in our bathroom since we have the measurements.

Master bathroom tub stand and floor done
Small bathroom floor done
Plumbing for shower started

Next up Ryan and his dad started hanging drywall in Alex’s room.  First they re-screwed the existing ceiling and then patched in the section we had cut away.  Then they did most of the dormer – until they ran out of sheetrock.  A good partial day’s work!

Sheetrock!
There are lots of angles in this room!

During one break (nap) I got the rest of the subpanel wired up so our closet can also be sheetrocked when ready.

No progress this coming weekend as we have family fun planned.  Ryan does plan to work a bit in the evenings at least tomorrow for sure.

Insulation

Progress continues quickly as we finished up all the prep work for insulation and they came out last Wednesday to start the job (they are finishing up today with a few small touch ups and cleanup).  We are seeing a huge improvement in heat retention even with the heat turned off this weekend (we turned it off so we don’t get any of the insulation spray fumes in the air handlers/filters).  We used the fireplace this weekend and today it was still 50+ degrees on both floors!  Once we start running the heat again it will barely have to run!

A few pictures I took last week…

My sewing room

All 2×4 walls have 1.5″ of closed cell, then open cell to fill.  The 2×6 (new) walls in dormers are just open cell.  The attic and basement rim joist were also all sprayed.  The only part of our house without spray foam is now the addition section (over the slab) which is the livingroom, washer/dryer room and the un-insulated garage.

Downstairs bath
Front entry
Playroom
Kitchen

Ryan and his dad worked on the house this weekend.  They got the ceiling between the old ceiling and new dormer section firred out, ready for sheet rock :

Ready for sheetrock

They also got all the rest of the frieze board/trim installed on the dormers as well as the front of the soffit corners covered with white aluminum!

Dormers ready for siding

The hope was to do siding last weekend but the siding that arrived was the wrong kind so we are now waiting 2 weeks for a special order siding.  In the mean time we are getting ready for drywall upstairs – our plumber has started running the lines for the bathrooms and Ryan is finishing up the last bit of framing.  I have a tiny bit of electrical (hooking some lines up to the panel box) and we should be ready to go.  I think if we were doing the drywall ourselves we’d just be going on it already – our hold up is that we hoped to hire someone because the taping/spackling would go so much faster if it wasn’t us doing it.  We’re not hearing back from the one person we found that could do it so we may just have to do it ourselves and hope we can do it quickly enough.