It is crazy warm out today! But just in case it gets cold again – we now have insulation in the nursery and master bathroom as well as along the sill plate in the basement 🙂 It was great getting work done on the house while I got to stay at my desk and get …
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Going into this weekend I was a little concerned with how much prep work we had to do before putting in the new windows but of course Ryan and my Dad surprised me and got it all done! First – up went the scaffolding and then down came the aluminum siding which Dad cut and …
This past weekend was awesome! My parents came out Friday night and we spent the weekend putting up drywall in the front hallway/entry and closets. It’s not ‘finished’ because of some areas we left out strategically and also some areas we just ran out of drywall. Plus it was getting late on Sunday for them …
A quick sand and a second coat and the gym floor was done for the day this morning. Still a tinted coat, the third coat will be a clear coat. Once the floor was done we dove back into the electrical. Now that we had daylight it wasn’t difficult to go into the attic to …
What a LONG day – we’re just now sitting down after a 14 hour day (of course we had breaks for lunch and dinner but not long)! And the progress we made shows what a day we had. First up – the gym floor!!! Dad spent the morning sanding it down and we did a …
I feel like this has been the focus of my life for the past 9 months or so – but finally it’s over – we have insulation in our livingroom, diningroom and front hall/stairway! That’s most of the downstairs completed now – everything but the kitchen and backporch – plus a tiny bit of the …
Nothing could beat Saturday, we got so much done. And sunday we didn’t even try. We slept later on Sunday, we played video games, we relaxed. It was great. I did run the vacuum through the house (including the shop vac/demo area) – to get any lingering dust. And I started a puzzle 🙂 Monday …
We had a very productive day today, it started nice and early but at 8:30am it was only 3 degrees outside and a little too cold to tear down the porch ceiling. So we started with an indoor project first. We made the blocks for the front exterior lights, then Ryan routed around the edges …
Today was our last day off and it was a day full of wrapping things up. In the morning we ran errands, after lunch I spent some time setting up our new router which arrived. We finally dragged ourselves into action and got some wiring done. We wired the the cable/ethernet lines in the livingroom, …
Two trips to home depot today and we made some good progress on the electrical. We got the front hall light circuit feed run. The blocks for the outside lights put together (Ryan got to use his pocket hole kit). We also ordered the front outside lights (the one we bought originally for the side …