Ready for the long haul

Well we spent the day we left on vacation buying tile, laminate flooring, and all our cabinets for the new house then headed to our hotel for a short sleep before our flight. We are now back and the house has been all drywalled and mostly mudded. The ceilings that are being textured are all done. They have started working on the exterior and it is about 1/3 done (a lot less than we expected) but they should be done by the end of the week. The painter should also be ready to start at the end of the week which means that Kurk will spend this week picking up all the flooring and taking it to the new house so he can start the install about the 4th or 5th of March. It I estimate correctly we will be in the last week of March beginning of April.

Drywall and away we go

Well things will be busy while Kurk and I are away. They have drywalled all the suite and 98% of upstairs and all the garage. They will finish drywalling tomorrow. The rain screen is all finished. The insulation will be blown into the attic tomorrow as well. The garage doors will be mounted on Wednesday and the last inspection before move in inspection will occur on the firewall separation between the suite and the main house. The natural gas will also be hooked up this week. While we are away it will take them 7-10 days to mud the drywall and the outside should be mostly finished with hardiplank and trim. The painter will start just after we get back then it is onto floors, cabinets, and finishing.

I can see painting on the horizon

The glaciers got 1/2 the house insulated today and the whole house is now papered. We have passed all the inspections so far. The framer has to come and shim a couple of windows and add a 2x4 to support a floor joist and we are ready for drywall on Monday.

Cleaning Again

Back Yard

Back Patio

Another shot of the back yard

Looking down hallway to the front door

Ensuite bathtub and shower

Fireplace in living room

This cleaning never seems to end. I also realized today as I vaccumed all the walls as Kurk swept the floors this house is rather big.