We had a wonderful reunion this past weekend with Kory's family. It was a nice little break getting away from the house. We're back now and we are ready to work again! On Monday, July 15th the girls and Brayden and I cleaned the upstairs. With the 2 bedrooms and closets being done we swept and vacumed up all the sheetrock dust. Brayden wasn't a fan of vacuming. He would have much prefered to be screwing sheetrock to the walls.
Monday night after dinner we all jumped right in and began sheetrocking the family room.
We only had about 6 smaller pieces left of the family room when it got to dark to finish. It was past 8pm and the 2 big kids had been invited to a friends house to play games. So we called it quits, let the big kids leave and we played a game or 2 with little ones and then went to bed!
Tuesday night mutual started an hour early again. I had dinner ready at 5pm so when Kory and Hunter got home for work we ate and jumped right in. We were able to finish the family room and hang another sheet in the bathroom before we all had to leave. I hate that it's taking us so long but we are making progress. I just have to be patient!
On Wednesday Kory's lumber didn't show up to the shop. So after lunch he brought an employee (our other guy took the week off) to the house to work until his lumber was delivered. We were able to finish the bathroom sheetrock and the stairwell! I will never have a 2 story house again. I hated setting the walls for the upstairs, being so close to the edge. I hated being on the roof so high of the 2nd story, I hated having to carry sheets of plywood up the ladder to the 2nd story on the outside. Carrying the lumber and sheetrock up the stairs was also a pain, thats some heavy material! And now having to hang the sheetrock in the stairwell, It was hard. My arms and hands are tired and sore! I know I will love it when it's all done but it really was a lot harder to do than the main floor.
We are done with the sheetrock upstairs. It feels so good!
The guys then came downstairs and began working on the kitchen plumbing. They didn't get to far when Kory got the call that his lumber had finally arrived!
Kory took off Thursday from his real job to go on a Priest Horse Backing Trip with Hunter. They left early Thursday morning and didn't get back until Saturday night about 6:30. They had an awesome time.
Thursday afternoon there was a knock on my door. It was our texture guy! He had come to start taping the upstairs.
It took several hours but they got most of the upstairs taped and screw holes filled before they had to leave.
They did not come back on Friday which I will admit I was a little dissapointed. However they did show up Saturday morning. They taped off my stairs so that when they start sanding hopefully the majority of the mess will stay upstairs! They got everything taped and filled. They hope to come back next week sometime to start texturing. WooHoo! I just might have kids upstairs by the time school starts afterall. Just 23 days left of summer. How awesome would that be?
Our heating and air guy also showed up Saturday morning. We had a busy house! He was able to connect a few ducts together and move the duct work in the upstairs bathroom. The duct was coming out of the floor by the door. He moved it across the room so it will be under the vanity. It will make it easier to clean the bathroom floors this way. Knowing I will have 3 girls with long hair upstairs I really didn't want that vent to collect all the hair!
He didn't get quite done when his wife called to say that she was in labor!
He took off to Cedar and said he'd be back!
Congrats J.C
So awesome to see so much progress done on the house this week. I am getting excited!
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