Drywall installation begins

Some of the posts I'll make are going to be primarily pictures only. This is one of them.

Part of the living room

Living room ceiling

Master Bedroom

One of the kids' rooms

Drywall was delivered

The drywall for the entire house was delivered today. It was so worth the money spent to have them deliver it and bring it into the house. Drywall is NOT light. My knees and back are thanking my wallet today.

Yes, that's all our drywall. Yes, they used a crane to bring it into the house. The entire delivery took about 45 mins. It would have taken us SEVERAL trips and SEVERAL hours to do this. Again, definitely worth the delivery fee.

As you can see, the drywall process has begun. Our first few sheets are up. These are 4x12 sheets too.

The insulation is in!

The insulation people came today and put in the blown-in cellulose insulation. They did this all in a span of about 3 hours. So impressive! They were insanely cheap too. So much so that we're hiring them again to do the blown-in for the attic.

This is the insulation truck. If you look, you can see two different hoses. One is the blower hose. It's what blows the wet insulation into the wall. The second one is the sucker hose. (So scientific, I know). Once they blow the insulation into the wall, a second guy comes and shaves the excess. The third guy uses the sucker hose to suck the excess back into the truck to blow again. Very cool process. Very quick. Very efficient. I cannot recommend a better way to insulate.

 Thursday is our drywall delivery. Saturday the plumber is coming to hook up the water meter. So, we're getting busy busy. Things are starting to really fly now.

Randomness

Today I just have a bunch of random updates on the house. Nothing major, mostly pictures.

This is the basement. As you can see, the bracing is still installed. We'll remove it eventually.

This is a view into the crawlspace part of the basement.

Our electric meter!

Kitchen plumbing!

Our electric mast all hooked up and giving us power!

The front of the house as she sits today!

My cute little kitchen window

I realize that I am starting off the post with two pictures of Little Man. However, he's just too cute in his little monkey hat sweeping with his little broom. 

 Now, onto putting in the kitchen window! My Dad is awesome btw.

Here my Dad is cutting out the opening for the kitchen window.

It's all cutout! Isn't that a nice size opening for a kitchen window? I think it is. Plus, I just love this picture of my Dad working.

....would there be a sound? You bet there would!

Last June (2012), I made a post entitled "If a tree falls in the woods..." This is the continuation to that post. Yes. It's taken us over 6 months to take down the remaining trees. These ones were by power lines so we had to hire this done.

These are the remaining locust trees that needed to come down in order for the electric company to hook the house's electric service up.

This is the tree service. 

Better view of the trees. These things are massive.

All gone!

The house looks so much different without any of the trees behind it anymore.

This is the mess we were left it. Some of these logs are 30+ feet long.

This is going to be fun cleaning up.

Playing catch up

It's been a while since I posted. Things have been going on at the build site, but rather than make a bunch of separate posts, I'm going to make one really big one. :)

 The insulation baffles have been put in. Attic insulation baffles are forms, typically made of cardboard or plastic, that create a gap between the attic insulation and the roof sheathing, allowing air to flow from the soffit vents into the attic itself. Baffles are secured to the roof sheathing near the eaves. They effectively prevent the attic insulation from covering the soffit vents, promoting airflow from the soffit vents across the roof sheathing to the ridge vents.

 Closets in the kids rooms have been put in as well. As you can see, we are going with swing open doors for their closets instead of sliding or bifold doors. Those styles of doors, to me, are just too easy to take off of their tracks.

 This is a view of the children's bathroom. As you can see, we went with an all-in-one bathtub/shower enclosure. This bathroom is roughly 5x11 and all three children will have to share it. We're going to be having a large vanity as well as a pantry in this bathroom.

 This is how we've been heating the house, since we don't have a working furnace, or duct work. It's an OLD Ford brand torpedo heater. This thing is older than I am, but works amazingly well.

This is the pit known as the stairwell to our basement. We currently use a large extension ladder to reach the basement. Eventually, we will be adding an L-shaped set of stairs into the basement. 

 One of our windows was put in to allow natural lite! We went with SilverLine windows by Andersen. These are double hung, double tilt vinyl windows with Low-E glass. I love them! They are also rather large in size as they are egress windows. The windows are roughly 3x5!

 Our ceiling light outlets are starting to be put in as well. If you look closely to the left of my Dad, you can see one of the recessed lights going in down the hallway. We went with 6" recessed fixtures.

 This is a shot of the walk-in closet in the Master bedroom. It's approximately 5x6 with 8 1/2 foot ceilings! I love this closet! We're planning on having a double set of rods, shelves, and other random goodies. Plus, I'm going to add a sliding barn to close it.

 This is the master bathroom. It's definitely smaller than the other bathroom at only 5x8, but hubby and I don't need a lot of space. We've lived in places with -much- smaller bathrooms. I'm just glad to have a tub in this one.

This is the rest of our windows that have yet to be installed. That cute little one in the front is our kitchen window. It's actually an impressive 3x3 window! It's going to make the kitchen so light-filled.