Week 28

First impressions.

Week 28

Will has broken his right hand playing hockey of all things. Have to remind myself it is not all about me and my house, so I took the day off and it was 'Take your client to work day'. We took a couple of loads to the dump, had some lunch, went to Home Depot and Fontile, chit chatted and I had a nice day. What does that say, that I would rather go the dump than go to work?

Week 28

A milestone for sure. We passed inspection yesterday and DRYWALL! going up as I speak !! Yeah, I don't know how to express how great it is, but it is great. 

Week 28

Linda's kitchen cabinets came this weekend.  

Week 27

It is what it looks like.  They loaded drywall in on Friday !!  Exciting day.

Week 27

Openings framed to the crawl space on my floor. One is in my bedroom and the other in my old bedroom. You can see Lulu investigating in the last picture.

Week 27

The spray insulation was slated for Wednesday and they wanted us out of the house for 24 hrs.  Off to Sandra's I went for the night and kitty spent the night at the vet where he got a few shots and a checkup.  A little bit stinky upstairs the next day but good downstairs in my hovel. The city will be coming Monday for the final insulation inspection.

Week 27

As it turned out, only my kitchen came, so didn't taken up much room.

Week 27

Hahahaha!!

Ikea just called and our kitchens are ready and they have a truck available for tomorrow.  We had arranged for delivery for the 21st, so a wee bit early.  I asked if we could delay but there would be an extra charge and I panicked and now I have to find some space to fit 114 pieces in the basement. YIKES.

Lulu still doing okay

Week 26

Will you look at that? 

The insulation is all done and it is markedly warmer in the house.  I am still sleeping in the basement and need to rely on the construction heater. I dream every day of the end and what it will be like when we are back in our living quarters. Won't be able to afford to leave the house, but I will be nice and cozy. 

The city inspector wants spray insulation in the ceiling of Linda's kitchen that is under my deck, so that might go in on Monday, then comes an insulation inspection and on to drywall.

Week 19-Week 25

Looking better and better, bit by bit.

Week 19-Week 25

There is so much lumber in our house now, overkill is my opinion.  But we have passed the structural so onward and upward.

Week 19-Week 25

Linda decided to take out her kitchen floor and put a new sub floor in, with Bill's help.

Week 19-Week 25

Some shots from the lost weeks. The new digs and some photos of both floors that look cleaned up.

What week is it? I have no idea.

YES, it has been sometime since I last posted something and have been pestered by a few folks.  I took a vacation.
The last I mentioned was that I was off to house sit for 3 weeks while the drywall was to go in.  It was lovely there and the cat liked it too. Didn't take either one of us to adjust to the new digs and it was good to just forget about the house for a bit.
In a nutshell, not much has gone on since Gabe left.  It is now April and no drywall in sight.
In Week 18 the engineer, well not the engineer, an assistant of sorts, failed us on our structural. Should have known that would happen, as Will was proud of the fact he had never failed on structural and he should never had said it in the house.
Week 19 the engineer disappeared and turns out he went out of town or something so we were twiddling our thumbs till he got back to us in Week 22.  Will got to work with the fixes he wanted and called for another inspection in Week 24.  Failed again!  Just a few little things that took Will no time and WHEW! We passed in Week 25. About all I can say is, if there is ever an earthquake, my house is the place to be. This house 'ain't' ever falling down.
We are now currently in Week 26. On Monday the city came in and we passed with flying colours. Today is Wednesday and insulation is going in as I speak. I am not saying anything about drywall, don't want to jinx things.  The plumbers are here tweaking a few things and work was still being done at 7pm.
So on with the show!

Congratulations, Gabe!!!

Week 18

The bay window looks like it belongs now. 

Week 18

Will has called for an engineers inspection, then the city inspection and then on to the insulation, then drywall. Getting close!

Have to start thinking about getting out of here for the drywall, which is still slated for next week.  I have a friend who is off to warmer places for 3 weeks and I will be house sitting along with Lulu.  Perfect timing.

No plumbers all week, as they are waiting for our shower and tub rough-ins which have been on order.  They arrived at the end of this week so that will be taken care of next week.

Will and Gabe have kept busy with finishing up the bay window and some strapping in Linda's room for the plumbing that extends below the floor joists.

Week 18

Gabe got his fireman job !! He has been in and out getting things sorted out for that. Very exciting for him, but my house isn't finished!  Haha, Will assures me that he has built many houses without Gabe.

The construction heater that I have been using in my room has gone on the fritz, and I pretty much have had no heat for about 4 days. It is February and still COLD!  Grrrr.  Turns out the trouble wasn't with the heater but the breaker.  Anna replaced it and now I have lovely heat blasting, thank you.

We passed an electrical inspection for my floor this week and Anna has some of the potlights going upstairs and she is working on the roughin on Linda's floor.