Sheetrock...&more sheetrock

January 9, 2013 our little baby boy was born. I think this gave my husband more motivation to finish the house because ever since we got back it has been non stop work on the house for him. He has been working on a number of things (much of which I couldn't take pictures of because I was at the rental taking care of our new baby boy). 

The plumbing in the bathroom had to be redone because we decided to move the bathtub, toilet, and sink into more logical spots. So my husband had to cut out the subfloor, figure out the direction the pipes run, take the metal pipes out and replace them into their new positions with PVC. He had also been working on the laundry room plumbing as well (just mainly running it to where it needed to go because there wasn't a laundry room in the house to begin with). And then the sheet rock...

Almost everything in the house has been covered with sheetrock. The laundry room is done minus the installation of the sink:

Below is a picture of what you see when you first walk in through our front door (click the picture to enlarge). To the left is our dining room and the middle/right side of the picture will be our living room. The wall on the very right that doesn't have sheetrock on it will actually end up have vertical boards on it which will end up being the back part of our built in entertainment center.

Below is a picture of what our kitchen is looking like at this exact moment. Still no finished shelving yet, but all in good time. To the very right of the picture, you can sneak a peak into the wide open hallway with the bathroom and the small hallway which leads to the laundry room and "man cave" (for now...) :

I tried to do a small panoramic of the bathroom to show you the haps but the sun was shining in through the window and put a glare on the lights the hubs just installed:

The only room that has any mud on the sheetrock is baby boy's room:

And...that's pretty much it for now. I'm sure the next couple of posts are going to be kind of boring due to all of the sheetrocking and soon we will start tiling the entire downstairs. Until next time...

SteffaneB

Back to work

Wow, it has been a crazy last month and a half. Between dealing with pregnant women drama (referring to myself of course) and family festivities for the holidays, my husband got into a bad 4wheeler accident and ended up breaking his scapula and humorous. This accident gave him 4 metal plates and 3 months out of work. We just started back working at the house because he is getting stir crazy sitting at the rental doing nothing (and honestly, I can't keep him captive at home for too long). So now that you know my excuse for not posting as often as I should have let's get this thing started.

My husband finished putting up all of the beams against the concrete walls in the house so that we could finally start sheet rocking. Below is a picture of the northwestern corner of our living room, on the right is the boards screwed to the wall and on the left is a wall I built to go in between the living room and kitchen/breakfast nook area.

Then once all the wood was up on the concrete, we realized we still needed to knock out this load bearing wall to open up the dining room into the living room. So below is a picture of the wall before...

This is a picture of the wall being taken down (you can still see a little bit of it on the left) and the beam to hold up the weight of the upstairs in the bottom right of the picture.

After some hard work we finally got the beam into place and was able to put the vertical beams up underneath it (might I remind you that my husband had only one working arm, I was 37 weeks pregnant, and my brother-in-law was out of town for a week).

And then FINALLY! we were able to put up some sheetrock. First we put up the ceiling sheetrock because it makes a better seam when you mud. We decided to go with a 5/8" thick sheetrock to add some insulation and sound barrier. Just a little tip for those of you who might we redoing a house now or in the near future, if you are going to hang sheetrock on the ceiling invest in a sheetrock hoist. We got one off of amazon.com for $150 and it was well worth the money and lack of headaches. (Below is the sheet-rocked livingroom)

And then to the south of the living room (our dining room) was beautifully sheetrocked as well.

I attempted to take a panoramic picture of the living room/ dining room/ foyer area to give you a better visual. So to the left is the living room with the three windows and front door being on one wall. To the right is the dining room and a visual of our currently exposed staircase.

Before we started sheetrocking the bedrooms, we decided to put up insulation on the walls and ceiling due to the cold concrete and terrible north winds. The insulation we used looked like something that belonged on the space station but it is supposed to be an awesome insulator and the upside for us was that it was thin and could fit nicely on our jacked-up ceilings.

The last thing we attempted today was installing our ductless units for A/C and heating. They aren't the prettiest thing in the world but they are a lot nicer looking than extremely low ceilings for duct work. Your probably wondering why there is no sheet rock in the room below but that is due to us still currently working on hanging the sheetrock onto the ceilings in the bedrooms.

Well until next time folks. Hopefully it won't be as long as it has been this past time for me to post an update but you never can tell since we have a baby on the way (DUE NEXT WEEK!).


-Steffane B