I said Hey Hey Hey Hey, Hey Hey Hey… I said Hey…. WHAT’S GOING ON!??!?!?

March 17, 2006 – Drywall went up pretty quickly and the first pic shows all the joints already mudded and smoothed out.  The screw holes were quick to follow.  The second pic is a nice pile of wet mud compound that I managed to step in. In the third pic you’ll see the buckets of drywall coats that can go on top of the drywall to give it texture.  We had to choose between “knockdown” and “roll-coat” textures.  The closets and ceilings are always knock-down along with the two story walls (foyer).  Reason?  Celings look better with heavy texture, closets take a beating and the knock-down texture hides imperfections/scratches well, and to do roll-coat properly you want to do the entire vertical roll of the wall in one motion…. not possible on a two story wall.   So instead of rolling a texture on, they spray it on in chunks and knock it flat with a trowel.  Thus…. knockdown.  The last image here is of our furnace being built.

March 31, 2006 – I suppose I’ll explain this mega-post pic by pic…   First off, the walls have all been coated by the drywallers and the first coat of primer has been applied which was actually a matte 400 white paint that is the final coat for the closets and ceilings as well.

All the vinyl flooring has been installed for the bathrooms and laundry closet.


The garage is full of doors… to be installed by the finish carpenter who is currently working on the house.

The living room has boxes of floors… (heh… I rhymed) to be installed starting Monday the 3rd of April by myself and a few friends.  These boxes are the wood flooring for the foyer, hall, kitchen, and dinette areas.

Welcome to spindle city.  These 80 pieces of wood (58 balusters, 2 nule posts, 10 baluster spacers, 3 baluster bases, 3 handrails, and 4 wall plates) were all stained on Thursday the 30th and then had to be coated with two coats of Polyurethane for durability.

Ye old Poly…

Sadly, between coats we had to also scrape up the first coat of urethane which dries like a plastic coating, with steel wool, then wipe them clean from dust and debris before coating a second time.  Needless to say this was a LONG process.

So we enlisted friends!  To the left is Rachael and to the right is Sarah.

Here is Rachael’s husband Mathias… who just may kill someone someday.

The outside of the house hasn’t changed much, but I don’t think we’ve posted a shot of the back of the house yet, so for your viewing pleasure… here’s both.


That’s all you get for now… next post will be about the hardwood floors I’m sure.  Look forward to hearing about sanding down floor joists, broken orbital sanders, putting holes in walls, and breathing in more dust than any human should.