Since the last post the interior of our house has come along way.  The kitchen tile is almost done, the cabinets have been installed and the walls are painted.  The rest of the house is drywalled, floated and textured.  We will probably do a lot of the painting this coming weekend.  The interior doors arrived however half of them were wrong so we’ll have all of them by the end of this week. 

In the next two or two we will get the floor installed.  The wood, white oak, comes unfinshed which mean that first you nail it down.  Then you have to sand and stain it.  We are going to begin the nailing down part starting next week.  The tile is also being ordered and will start going in next week. 

After all the floor is installed we can begin the final phase.  This includes mounting all the vanities, triming out the windows and doors, doing the plumbing top out, electric trim and mechanical final. 

So as many of you know I’m not very computer compatiable thus posting is a bit of a process for me.  What’s happened in the past three weeks?  Well, the first round of inspections have all passed (on the first try I might add).  This means that the frame is complete, all the electrical wire have been pulled, the AC/heating is installed just not on yet, and all the pipes for our plumbing system are in and water tight.  All in all we are moving along quite nicely. 

The next few weeks will include insulating the walls, hanging, taping floating and texturing the drywall, installing our backyard deck, then painting the walls.  So alot of wall work basically.  After that we can start triming the house and installing the interior doors. 

With a quick change in personal, our walls went up in a day. The crew worked like a swarm of bees constructing a hive, very precise and hard working. The roof is expected to be completely in the next few days allowing the plumber to begin work on Monday.

Day 9 of construction - We worked through the first weekend to get the demo mostly done. The foundation work began on Monday and they have worked incredibly hard to get our fifteen new piers dug and poured so we can start framing this weekend. We also beefed up the beams that run along the rear of the existing house so that we could tie onto it, saving us five more piers. At this point I’m very happy with our progress.

Almost all demo is complete and we will be finished tomorrow. We’ve taken out the back stairs, shed, kitchen cabinets, back room closet and most the the drywall that needs to come down. Tomorrow we plan to complete the drywall removal, remove the water heater and take the back of the house’s siding off. I’m excited by our progress and glad that the foundation work will be on schedule and begin on Monday.