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The last 2 foot stretch of railing is complete upstairs. On Saturday I laid the oak flooring we needed (yes, it does take pretty much all day to lay about 16 square feet of recycled 2-1/4 oak flooring) and today I got the railing up then started work on finishing the kitchen light install and […]

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Change Log for…

Well, I haven’t been very good about getting change log posts up, have I.  We’re still plugging away.  We have someone working on the stairs and that will be done on Monday.  Matt’s working on getting the kitchen together today and this weekend (after working on the oak flooring last weekend) and hopes to be […]

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Change Log for Friday, June 5th to Monday, June 8th

I finished painting the sink area of the kids’ bath and finished the walls in the shower area I did lots of cleaning downstairs Matt installed the sinks, faucets and drains for the kids’ bath and […]

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Last year our well went un-insulated all winter and during a particularly cold stretch we had a pipe break. Fortunately I noticed it within about 12 hours because I saw that the electrical meter was spinning at a crazy rate. For the last 10 or 11 months I’ve meant to do something to prevent it […]

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Paint decision making

Here’s a couple pictures of our paint selection process.  We ended up going with the one on the corner of the house - the lighter one, not the one on the top painted board.  We’ll have a cream-ish trim color and a red-ish accent color and door.  They should start painting next week!

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One more receptacle box. A bit of wire cleanup. Rough electrical will be done! (assuming I don’t find anything else while cleaning up and reviewing it all).

Need to fix a stud and redo some vent piping to make the stud more vertical. Need to install vents for dryer and water heater.

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I’m very close on finishing everything I need for the rough inspection. I’ve got an appointment with a guy next Saturday to talk about drywall and get a bid.

Recently completed:

All ceiling fan boxes mounted and wired. Can lights on landing wired. Fixtures in kids bath […]

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Tuesday night

installed can lights in built-in on landing finished cutting block for ceiling fan in second dormer installed boxes for plugs under built-in on landing

Wednesday night

Wired boxes for plugs under built in on landing Hung block for ceiling fan in second dormer with copious amounts of subfloor glue […]

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Tile and a Woodstove

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Holes in the Roof

This morning, the roof of our house was an unbroken sheet of shingles. Now it is pierced in three places.

Two plumbing vents went in (a 2 inch and a 3 inch) and I believe that the plumber finished his work. I need to put in a dryer vent and direct vent for the water heater […]

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