Time to start priming walls

This weekend I started priming the walls. I finished the most of the downstairs and realized this is going to take longer than I thought, lol!

Bonus item: on Sunday, I decided it was time to install a temporary toilet.

nice!

Drywall finished

This week the drywall crew finished all the mudding and sanding. The house is looking good inside other than a colossal mess.

Here is a photo of some of the drywall scrap. Seriously, this is much larger and harder to deal with that this picture looks. This is the situation, I had to pay for the drywall, pay to have it delivered to the island, and pay to have it installed. Now, I have to load ALL of this waste back on to my truck, haul it home and pay to have it removed!

This sucks

Side note: Fast forward a few days and this is the removal of two truck loads of drywall scrap back at home in Olmsted Twp.

Love the Bagster!

Drywall go-time

This is the big drywall weekend. I had to fix a few things in preparation. If you can recall, I plumbed up the hot water heater to the manifold a few weeks ago. Anyway, it worked but it leaked at some of the teflon connections. This sucks and because I hate teflon tape, I re-plumbed it using NO teflon and all pex crimp and swivel connections. I also fired up the hot water heater that worked like a charm.

What you see below if a thing of beauty and no leaks! 

New pex crimp connections

I wanted to move one toilet line before we buttoned up the walls with drywall. While I was moving the pex line in the bathroom, I found this gem written on the wall stud. It says "Frum Neil". I love this. Lil Neil wrote this on the board last summer and now I will never forget!

Frum Neil

 

Saturday morning it was go-time for drywall hanging. Jesse (from Columbus) and his crew got rolling.

By Sunday before noon, all of the drywall was hung in the entire house! Next step is the finishing - tape, mud and texture.

Drywall delivery

This is the final weekend to get ready for drywall. I had already installed the shower base and tub base in the two downstairs bathrooms. However, because they are acrylic they would make squeaking noises every-time you would stand in them or put any weight into them. This was making me crazy, so I researched how to fix this and apparently you need to set them in a bed of thin-set mortar as part of the install. Soooooo, I had to rip them both out, mix up some mortar and re-install. This sounds easier than the reality of it.

Here is the finished product... Not exciting, but totally solid and quiet with any movement.

Tub set in mortar base

Saturday morning, I received the Menards delivery ~200 sheets of drywall (8 and 12 ft'ers), plus 2 bunks of tongue-n-groove pine and one 20 ft i-joist.

Sunday, we hung this i-joist to be boxed in with shiplap barnwood to cover the duct work and load bearing center beam.