This is as far as we got in the drywalling process this weekend. :(
I'm disappointed, but there were just a million little thing to do before we could drywall.
I'm disappointed, but there were just a million little thing to do before we could drywall.
On Saturday, Marc installed the water line across the kitchen to the future in-refridgerator ice maker. It will be terrific not to have to buy bagged ice anymore!
I was busy running the speaker wiring from the basement, to the future volume control and then to the future speaker locations. It should be sooo awesome to have a built-in speaker system. Even though running the wiring involved another jaunt into the pet cemetery. EW.
Then on Sunday, I insulated the ceiling. At least this time it was cooler, so I could wear pants and a long sleeve shirt to avoid the insanity-inducing itchiness. (Like how I color-coordinated my PJ pants with the insulation?)
We also installed the exhaust ducting for the stove vent. This kitchen never had a stove vent before, so now we can feel free to cook up bushels of cabbage and not worry about stinking up the rest of the house. This had to be run thru the roof, so I had some more fun time on the HOT roof with the en fuego asphalt bits from the old shingles embedding themselves in the back of my thighs. Good Times.
We did manage to get some plywood on the walls which made me very happy. These walls will eventually get the wood panels, so they needed plywood to nail into.Baby Steps Crack House, Baby Steps.
I should also note that it is a dryspell for studying, and not for lack of need. I take my last "hard" (multiple choice) exam on Tuesday and I am utterly unprepared. It is hard to study when you've spend all day crawling around with dead animals and stabbing yourself with tiny little shards of fiberglass. After that I usually want a beer and a good cry.
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Good luck on the exam. Sometimes it's just inside your head and you don't know it. That is possible, right? That's what I've been telling myself anyway.
ReplyDeleteMan, I don't envy you the pink insulation job!
ReplyDeleteI've done the attic bit exactly once on a hot September afternoon, some 11 years ago. NEVER again.
On our (largely) DIY renovation, I made the determination early on that I was using spray foam, at least in the attic, then I decided to fur out every wall and spray everything.
Now I've decided that a contractor can do it for about what it would cost me for tiger foam, assuming that I didn't screw anything up. Oddly, I was actually looking forward to spraying that stuff. For those with smaller jobs, I think that the tiger foam makes good sense. Maybe under the floor, and around the sill in the basement. I think it's about $1 per inch per foot and gives you R13 per inch.
If you've got more insulating to do this summer, I think I'd consider it.
Mark