Day 28 - 10/5/2010

We feel that we have finally entered the home stretch with today's major event: the drywall started going up.

Andy said he was glad that he doesn't deliver drywall for a living.  This was a small project with only 120 sheets.  The guys had to carry it from the truck and half ot the sheets had to go upstairs.  It was quite interesting watching them take it up.  One would stand at the bottom of the stairway and one at the top.  The bottom guy would stand the drywall on end and start lifting it up to the other guy passing it through the wall framework.  The top guy would grab it and pull it upstairs.  Andy is very much appreciative of being a desk jockey!!!

The drywall crew came in just after noon and got to work.  They worked until about 8pm and got most of the drywall up.  Despite putting up additional plastic sheeting, pretty much everything in the house is covered in a light coating of dust.  The crew will come in again tomorrow  morning to finish up so that the next crew can come in and tape and bed.

It is really beginning to look like a house now:

Looking from the sunroom to the informal dining area

View into the kitchen from the sunroom

We can finally see the office closets.  Hmmm... the one on the left must have been designed for short people only.

The drywall subcontractor said that they should have all of the drywall and texturing done by the end of the week!!!

In yesterday's post, you saw the decorative blocks on the rear roofline.  All of those have been installed now.

The blocks don't look so big from a distance

During Andy's night shift, he installed the mirrors in the master bath and added the front and doors to Monica's sink cabinet.  The master bath is coming along as well, albeit a little slowly.  Andy may be slow but his labor rate is quite low.

Next: add the handles and start tiling...

Hopefully, Monday will be the beginning of all of the trimout work.  Andy is taking the rest of his vacation the next two weeks to start working on his part of finishing the great room.  He needs to assemble and install the cabinets, get the granite process going, install the appliances, paint, install the tile and wood flooring and bring some of the furniture back from storage.  We'll see how far he gets before the Swiss visitors show up.