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Buttoning Up

 

 

We hello again!

With the framing 99% done there wasn't much left of the lumber pile.

 

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It was time to start putting up the drywall.

We started right here on the Long Wall.

 

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The Long Wall went pretty quickly as there weren't a lot of cuts required.

I cut, carried and placed while Sue set the first screws and completed the middle and lower halves.

 

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We also picked up all the goodies the boy's purchased along with the flooring and ceiling tiles.  We've got lighting fixtures, fans, fausets, vanity, assorted accessories and a shelf to put them on.

 

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Here's Sue closing up the furnace room.

 

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I took two pix, so here is the other one.

Sue got pretty good at hitting the studs by the time we finished.

 

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I finished up the wiring in the pub area so we closed that up too.

You can see a bunch of insulation in the tub.  The boy's decided to insulate the ceiling so we were picking that up too.  We picked up a pallet of it (12 or 18 rolls) whenever they had it in stock - we ordered 53 rolls altogether.  As I worked on the wiring and plumbing, Sue put the insulation up in the ceiling.

 

 

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The walls are all up - now it's on to the soffit and beams.

 

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Our wallboard was getting pretty low.  We would have only needed to buy a few more, but Sue talked the boys into putting it up in the garage too - where we had all the new insulation hanging out.

 

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So here we are unloading twenty more sheets of drywall.

Jay's F150 handled it just fine, in fact it didn't even know it was there.

 

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My Sport Trac, on the other hand, couldn't handle all 48 boxes of flooring at the same time, so it took us two trips.

 

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900SF of flooring makes an impressive pile sitting all in one place.

 

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It took another trip to get all the ceiling tiles.

 

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Here's a look at a pallets worth of insulation in the bed of by truck.

 

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And here's a shot of the driveway around the back of the house - for those of you who haven't been there. There is not much back yard. The other side of that fence is a steep drop off to the main road on the other side of the trees.  And that deck is none too sturdy and may end up on a future to-do list.

 

 

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