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 …
We’ve made a lot of progress in the last month. It’s not easy to take pictures because it’s mostly demolition and wiring but the end goal is to get both the upstairs and downstairs of the main house (not the addition which is the livingroom/garage area) insulated. Originally we were going to do just …
I’ve been very neglectful in updates because I didn’t have pictures and I haven’t been there for 99% of the work that’s been done… partly because Ryan’s dad has done so much for us! One afternoon he went over and demo’d all the exterior walls because we had decided we’d do that and spray foam… …
The weekend before christmas I got to work on the house a bit! Suzanne watched the girls on Sunday and we got some wires run – fan boxes installed in 2 of the 3 bedrooms (and hooked up to switches!). The benefit right now is that we finally have light in those rooms (previously no …
This past weekend we had some great weather (what month is this again?!!). Ryan and his dad got the new chimney liner installed and finished the top of the chimney! Next up was installing the insert itself which took basically all day Sunday! It was quite the project. Other than that project we did get …
This weekend Ryan and his cousin got the new heat pump installed on the outside of the house. Ryan’s cousin is making great progress on the duct work in the attic as well and once we get the coolant lines run to the two units (attic and basement) we’ll get some heat going in the …
Ryan and his dad worked on windows on Sunday – putting them in is a two person job and now Ryan can get the trim up around them if he has time by himself! They got a lot more done than I anticipated and I can’t wait to see them later tonight! So there are …
First off – Ryan did an amazing job closing up the second dormer quickly. On the following Saturday he finished the roof on it (Nov 14) while I was out of town. The windows arrived last friday and that night Ryan got the first one put in already! He put the second one in on …
We got hit with rain this week – especially on Wednesday which was the day Ryan and his dad hoped to finish up the dormer. THey worked in the rain but they couldn’t finish the roof shingles in the rain so they just finished up the soffit (closed it in) and Ryan got the window …
It’s not really a surprise that dormer number 2 is going a bit faster than the first – lessons learned and all that! Ryan and his dad worked 1/2 of Saturday and all day Sunday this weekend on the dormer. Saturday morning Ryan went and picked up the wood we had milled into flooring – …