It was a long weekend filled with some rough work – poor Ryan even needed stitches in his wrist after cutting himself on the concrete. Saturday Ryan finished up the jack hammering – which involved cutting his wrist, taking a break to drive to urgent care, coming home instead of waiting 3 hours – going …
We’ve kept up the momentum on getting the playroom really truly finished. Before the party we were able to get the painting fully done! Since the party we’ve kept up the work – I finished up most of the electrical in the playroom (waiting on switches before I can install the fan but outlets and …
It’s been a LONG while since I did a house update – we really took most of the summer off of house renovations but we are gearing up for a busy fall/winter! The big project right now was emptying out the ‘office/craft room’ and the ‘playroom’. The playroom was already sheetrocked but not taped so …
This past weekend Ryan replaced the rotted sill plate under the front door and finished securing the smaller beam in the basement! Jacking up work is done! On Sunday with the help of Ryan’s dad they got the rest of the demo done in preparation for putting in dormers. I had to unwire/rewire a bit …
Technically we are done jacking up all 3 of the beams we installed (thanks to Ryan’s Dad’s help today – they got it finished up) but 2 of the beams are really finished (bracket installed). We have to drill holes in the steal brackets for the 3rd beam still. We still have some jacking up …
We had a very productive weekend. We got 2 beams (doubled LVLs) installed with jacks – the real posts are on order so we are waiting for those. In the mean time we were able to start jacking up the original beam and our 2 new beams. We can’t just jack up all the sag …
Last weekend Ryan finished up the footings Friday night and Sunday morning. They look great! We had trouble finding the right size adjustable posts and actually had to order them off of amazon of all places for building materials! We spent our day off (Monday) making some brackets to support the beams and starting to …
Ryan took Friday off last week and we spent the day at the lake house. I had the girls so didn’t do much myself but he got the insulation all removed from the basement ceiling! On Sunday I did the final basement cleanup (sweeping and bagging up the tiny things – mostly mouse poop) and …