Sheetrock Day!!!!!

Finally....we get to see some definition of walls in the house!!

The crew arrived right on schedule. A truck delivered 80 sheets of 4x12 Sheetrock and 52 boxes of taping compound. I will admit I would have liked to have done this portion as well but time just did not allow for it.

They went right to it. I was amazed how fast the whole house changed. I have posted several pictures of the walls we finally have.

With the Sheetrock finally getting hung, and the tapers soon following, we still needed to get two of the east side windows installed......and one was the huge 6x7 window.

I will be the first to admit I was a little nervous about putting this window in place due to the size and the weight. I would guess the window itself weighs no less than 250 pounds. That is bad enough but then it also has to set up about 16 feet off of the ground.

We had to do a little more rough framing for the opening, and by the time that was complete it was mid afternoon. Needless to say we had to rent another lift to get it up in place. We went a little smaller this time due to the rising costs of fuel to get it over here. But knowing what I know now, I wish we had stuck with the bigger one that we have been using throughout the project.

We have no pictures of us actually installing the window due to both of being rather tied up installing it but here is the finished product.

I'm Back

My apologies for not keeping up on the blog. It has been a very busy time since my last post, with the blog having to take a back seat for a while due to all of the work needing to be done on the house.

As you can imagine, a lot has taken place since the last post which, in itself, seems like a surprise to me given the fact that it seemed as if the whole house project had come to a complete stand still since the first of the year.

The last blog left off with us trying to get the wiring wrapped up. Even at that point we still had a lot of odds and ends with the wiring to clean up as well as some framing to complete in the upstairs bedrooms and bathrooms. The list seemed to grow everyday instead of get smaller.

We started off with getting the rough-in wiring inspected so as we could at least get the sheeting on the second floor. The wiring portion of the inspection went well but we have a real construction police for an inspector and he managed to point out a lot of little things that needed to be addressed. Picky stuff is what I would call it.

So, long story short, we passed the electrical and proceeded to get the second floor sheathed. That went well, and along with that we got all of the duct work run for the vent fans out of all of the bathrooms.






After the flooring was completed, I started in on getting the framing completed upstairs. This was not a project I was really looking forward to due to the fact that just about every cut would have to be a mitered cut and all of the work would be up and down a ladder so it would get to be rather time consuming.



The framing that needed to be completed was to finish the upstairs bedroom/bathroom walls all the way to the ceiling. I had not done this when I originally built the walls due to wanting to be ready for the plumbers when they did their rough-in.




Finally, the light was at the end of the tunnel and it seemed the list of projects to complete started to get smaller. The inspector did seem to have a real hang up on fire blocking. That is a horizontal 2x4 that is inserted near any drop ceiling and under stairways. I guess it is a good idea but I had a hard time figuring out why some of the areas that they wanted fire blocked needed to be. I did a little research on the net and was even more surprised to find out most states do not even require it. But I just gritted my teeth and proceeded to install fire blocking.

The same day some of the cabinets from Gutowski Cabinets started to arrive. They needed the room in their shop and we had agreed that we would be able to store some of them up here given the fact that there would be nothing overhead taking place as far as sheetrock was concerned.



Also, just prior to the sheetrock being hung we took some time to get the walls between the mechanical room and the master bathroom and closet insulated for sound.

Finally, the following day after re-inspection, we got the green light for the sheetrock crew to finally start hanging sheetrock.