My apologies that I've not updated this since earlier this week.... It's been a very busy week at the site.
Tuesday came and so did the drywaller. The siding also was getting some more attention this week. The well driller came back and finished the hookup to the house from the well too. I had several meetings with both lawn installers and concrete contractors for the driveway along the way.
First, the drywall...
The supplier delivered the drywall on Tuesday. They opened up Lyndsey's bedroom window and used the truck shown below to unload all the upstairs drywall thru that window.
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| yeah, all the drywall on the truck is for our house! |
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| carefully.. carefully... |
While that was going on, the girls found entertainment in playing with the muck that was left after the well drillers capped off the well that had been running onto the ground for 3 days.
At the same time, the siding installer was putting up more of our siding, and the concrete contractor came back and sawcut the joints into the garage slab and porch slab.
Wednesday saw the siding guy make some more progress...
...and, it saw the interior begin to get alot more "finished" looking as well when the drywall began going up!
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| the living room - fireplace wall |
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| the Wall of Windows |
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| patio door in the dining area |
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| hallway behind the kitchen |
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| stairway divider wall |
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| piles of drywall up in the loft |
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| looking down over the front entry foyer |
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| the view from the front door |
Down in the basement a third type of insulation went in; spray foam insulation is used down here at the exterior wall end of the floor joists.
The top arched window is now in place.. the Wall of Windows is complete!
Thursday the drywalling continues...
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| view from the front entry |
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| hallway behind the kitchen |
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| stairway divider wall |
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| kitchen wall (stove) |
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| the girls wrote on the drywall, leaving notes for the workers :) |
Friday was more of the same.... drywalling and siding.
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| fireplace wall |
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| the Wall of Windows |
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| looking into the kitchen/dining area from the living room |
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| the overlook above the living room |
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| the kitchen/dining area |
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| the master bedroom reading nook |
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| the master bedroom tray ceiling |
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| Rachel's room |
Robin and I were scheduled to be insulating and drywalling the garage walls on Saturday. I took Friday afternoon off and bought/delivered all the insulation to the site. The drywall for use in the garage showed up that afternoon as well.
In talking to the drywaller early Saturday morning (he arrives around 4am each day) on-site, he said that his boss had ordered 24 sheets too few of drywall! D'oh! So he had to use the stuff that was supposed to be ours to use in the garage for the house instead.
I called the builder about this... he was a bit ticked. He told us to just get the insulation put up in the walls and he'd make certain the drywaller's boss felt compelled to hang the drywall himself at no charge due to the slip up in order.
So we got out of that part of it anyway.. lol
Robin and I worked our butts off in the heat that day. At least it was overcast most of the day. But we got the insulation put up.
The siding guy got a bit more siding put up.. in the front of the house this time. You can see both the siding and the dark bronze colored trim together now.
Sunday (today) the drywaller was scheduled to come back and finish the drywalling the house. I'm assuming he'll be doing the garage then on Monday.
The plasterer is going to be starting putting the plaster up on the interior walls tomorrow (Monday). Things will begin to appear to move much more slowly from here on out.. but the differences should be very apparent in most cases nonetheless!
This past week I had meetings with 3 concrete contractors to get an estimate on doing our driveway. Also, I met with 2 landscapers to get prices for installing our new lawn. Once I get the last of those numbers in we'll have to make a decision on both of those items.
We met with Debbie the interior designer on Saturday. She's also a Parade "requirement". We'll get to keep the window treatments (blinds, curtains, etc) that she installs. She also is responsible for basic staging of the house during the Parade, and we'll get the opportunity to buy anything she uses in the Parade if we want to afterwards.
Paul
