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The update you’ve been waiting for…

28 June 2007 by damonnoisette
Filed under Our House

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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