Drywalling!

Our place is coming together!!!

We have been going crazy, working long full days, to get the house moved along before we head to Argentina. We talked and agreed to hire some drywallers to come in and finish up the walls. It is a task that would have taken us probaby a month - and wouldn't have been done nearly as well.

In order for the drywallers to be start their job, we had 2.5 days to finish
- the waste plumbing (Gregg)
- insulate the walls (samantha)
- and ceiling - yucky!! (samantha and Gregg)
- finish framing the drop down ceiling in the bedroom(samantha)
- build a closet for the washing machine (samantha)
- build the bench and built in niches for the shower (samantha)
- plastic wrap the walls that have been insulated (samantha)
- install the pocket doors (samantha and gregg)
- level and finish off the doors (gregg)
- built the interior bathroom walls (gregg and samantha)
- finish the electric (gregg)

among other things.

We worked LONG LONG days to get this stuff done. I was happy I had a slow week at work and could frame some of the interior things that need to be built. I am not the most experienced framer, but it sure is fun!!!

The first drywallers we hired, via craigslist, wound up being insane, stealing $200 from us, and refusing to be fired - still sending an unknowing worker to our house the following morning. I eventually had to file a police report, because they were operating under a false company name, among other things...It was super stressful at a time when we were already exhausted from working our butts off.

But, we did find some new drywallers that we like thus far.