Since our last update we have shingles on the roof, pillars on the porch, plumbing throughout the house, electric, heating/cooling, insulation and drywall on the second floor and the start of some siding on the exterior. It has definitely been a challenge for us to sit back and wait for our sub contractors to find the time and motivation to work on our house. Our patience is wearing thin and we want to complete this project more than ever, so we continue to do the projects we can handle ourselves and encourage the subs to get their part done.
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| A little glimpse of our December! |
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| Ryan and Michael installing our pillars for the front porch |
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| We hired an insulation team to insulate the second floor. It was definitely worth having someone else install the insulation after we removed all of the previous insulation from the old house. |
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| A view of the pillars after installation. We still need to install the white ballisters in between each pillar. |
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| Remember all of that brick we took down from the back of the house?? Well, we were able to reuse it around the garage and we had enough to patch up areas around the house where the brick had fallen off in the midst of all the demolition. We plan to paint the existing brick a shad lighter than the fiber cement siding (stay tuned for pics of the siding). |
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| A view of the garage with all of the windows installed. We were able to reuse the old windows from the back of the house. |
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| The stairway to the second floor covered with DRYWALL! |
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| The master bedroom with the drywall installed!! It is so crazy to see the second floor with WALLS!! |
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| Master bath - the green drywall is meant to resist humidity (i.e. shower steam) and the grey dry wall is cement board for tile |
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| Another view of the master bath with drywall |
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| The middle bedroom |
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| A view of the hallway with walls!! |
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| The third bedroom on the end |
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| Another view of the third bedroom |