The past 2 weeks have been a bit busy! The older girls and I were gone for 4 days to girls camp. Then this past weekend the older 2 and I were gone for Youth Conference. Although we haven't been around to work every single night I'm still impressed with how much we have accomplished.
Wanting some storage areas Kory framed a few more cupboards into the stair case. We're going to have a nice large cupboard on both sides! The opening is framed in. One of these future nights we'll get the boxes built for them. I think we'll really like them.
Before starting on the electrical we needed to finish insulating the walls with our foam boards. On this Friday, June 14th it was a all hands on deck kind of day. All 7 of us had jobs to do and we worked really well together.
The younger kids could drag the boards in and help hold them while Kory cut them into our strips.
Then the strips were taken to the walls and placed between each stud.
After they were in we nailed them a few times and sprayed foam around the edges to block air movement.
It's getting pretty warm outside which means it's getting pretty warm inside. We haven't turned on our A/C yet becuase once again we have too many holes. We've got 4 windows that we are still waiting on plus an open attic. It can get quite miserable in the afternoon evening time before the sun sets enough and we can open windows. Hoping all this insulation will help a little bit.
When the foam boards were finished up stairs we sent the boys downstairs to finish. Kory, the girls and I began wiring the upstairs. While the girls and I were away at girls camp he and the boys had installed most of the electrical boxe; fan, canned lights, light switches and smoke detectors. So we finished the few that still needed done and the began running wire.
Kylies job was to help pull the wire off the reel.
And then Kory, the girls and I would pull it throught all the holes he drilled through the studs and push them into the electrical boxes. It's not really hard work just a little time consuming.
All of the electrical boxes have wire to them.
Woo Hoo!
We also seem to have bad luck with wireless electronics. In every single house we've been in we've had something that was wireless NOT work and had to hard wire it to use it. Having the material already we decided to hard wire almost every room. Although we don't allow electronics into the kids rooms we may rent the house out long term one day or use it as a vacation rental. One day in the future it might be nice to beable to have all the hard wire available to us. Nice to know that wire is now done too.
One of Kory's and my biggest pet pieves is having towel rods in the bathroom that fall off the wall. Why is this? We've rented a lot in our 17 years of marriage and most of the places we've rented has had this issue. The rods are always loose. And if you look closely enough you can see a ton of screw holes where the rod had been previously. It just keeps getting moved a little each time the rod falls and screwed back in some where else. The problem is that the towel rod isn't being screwed into the actual studs in the wall or maybe one side is but not the other. It's just going through the sheetrock. So with extra material laying around we fixed this little problem. Kory screwed some large and thick pieces of wood (left over staircase stringers) between the studs. This way when the time comes to hang towel rods it won't matter where we put it along this wall. We will hit real wood instead of just sheetrock. That rod isn't going to go anywhere for a very long time! We also put a piece of extra wood where the hand towel by the sink will be too.
We're getting pretty excited to see how quick the house is coming along!
Sure is looking good.
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