Done!

Alright, that's a wrap. We just passed our final inspection. I will post up some final interior shots in the next couple of weeks. I will also be tracking the utility bills closely and I will report back when I have a decent amount of data collected. Beyond that I will be shifting my terrible writing to my other blog at onesojourner.org. I will be focusing on the happenings around the house, mostly cool little projects like charcoal making, wood gasification, electricity generation, small scale animal husbandry, gardening, permaculture and "stuff".

Trim, doors, well, tile, ect.

We are down to lots of small jobs at this point. The well is in and the pressure tank is set. Unfortunately the plumber didn't stub out a place for us to tie in at. I finished up the shower pan for the master bathroom and Calee got the tile laid on the floor of the shower. We finished up the heated floor in the master bath and laid the tile in both bathrooms. Now we just have to finish up the shower walls.

The cabinet guys got most of the cabinets set. The counter top guy came and got the kitchen measured. I am going to do concreted for both the bathrooms.

After 2 weekends with a paint sprayer we finally got all the trim painted. We finished trimming a couple windows yesterday. We also finished up the stairs.

The east side has siding and we have power

Just a quick update before we get battered by the coming spring snow storm... Eric Davis has made some great progress on the siding. The walk out side of the house is finished. They should have no problems finishing this up next week as long as the weather gets decent and I can finish up on the rock.

In other news we have power to the panel. The furnace should be hooked up tomorrow, though the temperature in the house stays around 50.

Soffit finished, mason work continues siding started and electric ditch

There is lots of things happening this week. Our James Hardie Hardieplank lap siding  was delivered on Monday and my siding guy, Eric Davis finished up the soffit on Tuesday and got started on the siding. It is turning out pretty good. This house is going to look a whole lot different in another week. The weather looks like it is going to be terrible for the next week (rain, sleet snow and we barely get out of the 30s). Work will slow down after today. With the cold temperatures I will not be able to do any more work on the stone wainscoting. I did manage to get some more of the ledge put up on the front porch last night so that is good. It will be next week before I get to work on it again with these temperatures.

 

My father in law got out the old backhoe and got the ditch dug for the electric line. The drywall guys were worried about the mud drying so hopefully we will have power by the end of the day today. 

 

The dry wall guys are making progress on the walls.

The next project is to get paint picked out and get some primer and color up on the walls. If the weather warms up we will be back outside working on the stonework.

 

 

Drywall is hung, stone vaneer is started

The hangers finished up the drywall now we just have to wait for the finishers. The inside of our house is a dusty mess. Hopefully they will get done this week. They were worried about it not being warm enough but I think they play to bring some heat in.

 

We got started on the stone vaneer this weekend. We are using a drystack so it takes a while to piece all this together and that means we are behind schedule again.  The weather is well below average this week for this time of year and that makes doing mason work suck. Our night time lows are hovering around the freezing mark so I will cover our work with plastic. The siding and soffit guys started on Friday and they expect it to take about a week or so to finish up so we have to have this rapped up by next weekend. 

Drywall progress

The drywall is nearly hung now. The finisher was going to start today or tomorrow. The end is near now.

 

In other news I got my hole at the bottom of the drive way dug. It was nearly 10ft deep when I quit digging. I didn't find any rocks which is extremely rare for this area. I burried most of the concrete after lunch on Saturday. I can fit more in the hole but we may use some of it for other projects. I finished up just as it started to rain. We got nearly 2 inches and my hole turned into a flooded mess.

The next project is to get the stone veneer installed on the front of the house. Unfortanatly it looks like half our weekend is going to be rained out. We ordered it from a company out of Springfield called Palisades Stone. They should be delivering it tomorrow.

 

The metal roof is on

Well it only took 2 days and we have a roof. It was completed just in the nick of time. Less than 24 hours later it was raining and then snowing on the new roof. We ran out there after day one with just enough daylight to see it. It looks pretty good in my opinion.