The update you’ve been waiting for…
Update: I just ordered our cork floors. They should be on their way in a week or two!
Here’s the latest slideshow from the Dellwood House (Click on the picture).
Here’s where we are:
- Lead boots have been attached to the roof over the new plumbing vents.
- The gas line has been installed with a tap for an outdoor grill!
- The kitchen floor has been cut to extend the plywood base out to the edge of where the cabinets and island will go.
- The laundry room now has Hardibacker concrete board down for tile and hookups for the washer and dryer.
- The plumbing has been roughed-in and inspected.
- We have a new PVC sewer pipe — at least to our neighbor’s fence.
- Our walk-in shower has been mostly framed (above) and the shower liner is in.
- The tub has been installed.
- The shower valves have been installed. We’ll have a rain shower in the bathroom with a tub.
- The upstairs closets have been extended out about 1.5 feet on both sides, giving us roughly 4-ft deep — actually useful — closets in the upstairs bedrooms.
- The dividing wall for the master walk-in closet finally got built. That took me all day on a Sunday and most of a Tuesday evening.
I’d love to say that there were some incredible physical limitations that prevented me from getting the wall up in less than a day but the real limitation is that I’m an awful framer.
First I cut the studs 1″ too short the first time because I didn’t consider the slope of the floor and only measured from the center to the ceiling. What’s really sad is that I managed to get seven 10-foot 2×4s into my Prius (diagonally) and ended up almost wasting them when I cut them down too far. Luckily I was able to throw an unused 2×4 from a wall that I had pulled down at the bottom of the wall to make up for that 1″ gap.
Here’s what’s next:
- Finish the closet expansion/reconfiguration.
- Have the electrician finish wiring through the new wall.
- Get a final electrical inspection.
- Wire studio/presentation room for sound & volume controls with 14/4 + Cat 5e cable. (I may also extend the wiring out to the kitchen and front porch)
- Buy insulation and put it in the exterior walls.
- Have drywall contractor begin his installation.
- Have the floor restoration company begin his work.
- Install floating cork floor in kitchen.
- Install tile in laundry room, front entrance (?), and upstairs bathrooms.
- Install glass tile in the walk-in shower.
- Install less-expensive tile in the other shower.
- Cut baseboards and new window trim and install.
- Install our IKEA kitchen.
- Buy appliances.
- Move in!
I’m sure there’s plenty I’m forgetting, but, hey, that’s a pretty long list already!
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