Now our focus goes back to work and the house.
We are so close to being done with the siding, with basically two sections left to do. The master bedroom face and the back deck and dormer area are what's left, and still a bunch of caulking.
I want to extend the perpetual invitation to anybody that would like to drop by and throw-in, regardless if we are having an organized "work party" or not. I'm going to try to keep a running list of things that need to be done, many of which really can be done or severely impacted in an hour or two or three. Practice your skills, challenge yourself if you like, be an extra hand for something, it's all here and if you don't know how to do something, we'll figure it out. That's how we're building this house, in fact, figuring out how to do stuff as we go. We've made mistakes, we correct them, we learn and get it done. Immensly rewarding so far, but we're impatient to get it done!
Here's an idea of things to do:
- Install siding
- Caulking
- Cut and screen vents
- Install deck ledger spacers and siding to cover tyvek
- Install door hardware on two french doors
- Dig up rain barrel to repair leaking connection
- Spread gravel under house
- Dig out sump pump under house, build brick wet-box for pump
- Route, plan and install vents for baths, kitchen, laundry, water heater (pending material)
- Route, plan and install gas piping (pending material)
- Route, plan and install vacuum system piping.
- Install soffet boards front and rear
- Mask windows for paint
- Paint the house (pending material)
- Connect the shed 110vac wiring feed from the house, final the hose bib there and cover the hole.
- Insulate (freeze protect) the exposed water collection lines where they enter the house.
OK that's it for now. Check back for updates, we'll see if I can keep this maintained. Sandi will at some point continue with the picture-post, but as you loyal readers know we're pretty hit-and-miss on doing updates.
