Memorial Day Weekend

Bonnie and the kids officially move in to the house this weekend

New grill and bulkhead wrapped

This weekend I brought up a new gas grill so we can have something to cook on with the fam, when they move up here next weekend! 

I wrapped the bulkhead in driftwood style shiplap. It looks better than I thought it would, very happy with the results.

Finally brought up the lil ones

This is my 8th weekend this season coming to the island to work on the house and the first one where some of the family came with me. Neil and Soph came along and finally got the see the progress on the new house. It was nice having them with me all weekend!

Not a ton of progress, just more priming the drywall. I finally finished on Saturday early evening. 

Here is a photo of the makeshift home office. Actually got both kids to connect, login and start school work before 9:00 am. This is nothing short of a miracle.

Work desk - construction style

We got the new queen mattresses and box springs delivered to the island, courtesy of Andy (Chris's boss) and his son. Here is a photo of Sophie, happy in her room with snacks and phone in hand.

Sophie in her new room

More priming

The priming saga continues. I started upstairs... I am now estimating this will take about 15 gallons of primer for the whole job, yikes!

Sunday, I had to help Tim move a counter top up on the point. I passed this photo op on the way back so I had to stop.

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.