Category: building projects

  • Water and Wire!

    Last time i posted, (July 29th) i was eating my words, and i told you all we were ready for plumbing and wiring.  I am glad to announce that the plumbing for the entire house is complete. All we need is to install our water heater and we’re actually having the water company move the…

  • Another perspective…

    Since Caleb is neglecting his blog, I’ve decided to update you all.  Now that all the framing is finally finished, (Caleb finished it about a week ago! yay!) we’ve moved on to plumbing.  Our contractor friend, has graciously recruited one of his employees to come over and guide Caleb through all the specifics of plumbing.…

  • Just dropping a quick line.

    Well, i’m eating my words, technically, we are done with framing as in no more walls and ceilings but we aren’t totally ready for sheetrock, and i believe that is a big part of what framing entails. I am ok with where we are, now besides the few loose ends to tie up with framing,…

  • Just say it!

    I’m going to step out on somewhat of a limb and go ahead and say it: i think we’ll be done with framing this week.  There it’s out there which means i will either have to eat those words or we will in fact be done.  This probably doesn’t seem that astonishing or even exciting…

  • My sweet angle.

    Well we’re moving right along and like i’ve said, i am having a blast doing this stuff.  We have everything decked and turns out i bought about 6 or 7 sheets of plywood too many.  We got our stairwell celling up, the angle was tricky and we didn’t have to buy any more lumber for…