More drywall installation

Yes, a DIY house rebuild takes forever. However, it also saves money. Lots of money. This is where we are currently on the drywall installation.

The hallway

Kid Room

Master Bedroom

Master Closet

Another Kid Room

Master Bathroom

The pit to the basement. This was entertaining watching the drywall be hung.

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.