Standiford Family

Boy am I glad I contracted out the finishing of the drywall to C & S Drywall, Inc.! First of all Barry showed up 30 to 45 minutes early which is amazing for a contractor. Then he started his magic with the fancy tools. Like I always say, “It’s all about the tools.” He taped and mudded all the seems and covered all the screw heads and was out the door in an hour. I was shocked. He’ll be back tomorrow night to put on the corner bead and what ever else. I’ll try to post pictures after then.

As I was leaving work today I saw my electrician contact and he said he would be able to come over this week and install the new sub panel. That was the first piece of good news. Later I received a phone call from the drywall finisher and he is starting tomorrow. This is great news! It’s really coming together now.

Later we went out to dinner at Max & Erma’s with Nana, Papa, Grandma, Grandpa, Jan and Doc. The girl’s school was having a fund raiser where 20% of the proceeds from the bill went to the school and we also thought is was a good way to celebrate us almost completing a month of doing pretty well on our goals that we set. We had a good time and some good food.

Oh Yeah! Today around 12:30pm I put on the very last piece of drywall. It was a tiny little piece on the inside of the game closet and boy did I let out a holler when it was done. I was so happy to have that part of this project completed. That took a lot of time and a lot of energy but I think it is going to be worth it.

I called the drywall finishing contractor who had come out to our house about a week ago to give us a quote and left him a message asking him what we need to do to get on his schedule. This is the next step and I can’t imagine how much better it is going to look after that part is done and then we will be able to prime it and paint it.

I got out of .NET training early today so I was able to come home and get some dry walling done before Kelly had to leave for Crop night.  I got almost the entire game closet dry walled.  I only have a couple of small strips left to call it completely finished.

Only a few more pieces of drywall to go.  Cross your fingers that it will be finished by this weekend.

One month into the project and I would say if there were a few less interruptions (but that’s life) and a few less home repairs along the way, this might be close to a finished project. Oh well I think it is going pretty well.

I came home for lunch today and did some electrical work and some minor prep work.

My Dad came over and we installed a new register and the drywall that goes around it. It was a little tricky, but as you can see we got the job done. I also installed another little piece of drywall before cleaning up for the night.

Long time no update, sorry about that!  I have been doing some work but I have been bad about posting my updates.  Actually the work has seemed kind of slow as well.  I finally got the existing network, phone, and satellite wiring reworked and put into it’s new place so that I could drywall the wall between the laundry room and the new office.

I also put up a few pieces of drywall on that wall separating the two rooms and ran a few electrical cables so that I can put up the last piece of drywall on that wall, hopefully tomorrow.  I’m currently in training for work so I may be getting home later in the day but I also may get home early like today so we’ll see.

Here’s another picture of Kaden helping out.  He’s going to be a pro at this by age two!

Another day, another helping hand from Dad. Dad came over and we went and picked up eleven more sheets of drywall along with some other things from Menard’s. We came back and hung a couple of small pieces before I realized that I was out of drywall screws. I thought for sure I had another box out in the garage. Another trip to Menard’s. I should have bought their stock before I started this project.

Dad had to get going to try and get his glasses fixed, the ones that I stepped on and broke the frames last Saturday. Sorry Dad! Then he was going with Mom and the rest of the Sisters to have dinner with my Grandparents who are celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary today. That is cool!

I hung a few more sheets of drywall and the closet is almost completely covered with drywall. Only a few more tiny pieces to go and then the ceiling.

Did lots of prep work on the closet wall to get it ready for drywall, hung two sheets of drywall, then started prep work on the wall separating the laundry room and the new office. I only have a one and half more studs to nail in but I had to quit so the kiddies could go to bed. I was on a roll too. Anyway here’s a picture of the closets with the newest drywall on them and the finished picture of the sump pump installation.

I finally found a lid for the sump pump basin today at the Menard’s South of town. I had to modify it a little bit to get it to fit but it looks good. I also used plastic ties to attach the drain pipes and cords to make the installation look more professional.

I did some prep work on the back of the closet wall. It was quite unsquare so I was making some changes to make it square before hanging the drywall.

A drywall finishing contractor came over today and said it would be a $200-250 job to finish the drywall I’m hanging. I’ll be glad to pay that and save myself the headache of doing that work. He said he could do it next week if all the drywall was ready. He estimated four days to complete the project.

Well today started out like any other day until I came downstairs to check my email before going to work. It was then that I discovered that the basement was flooded (part of the basement) and the sump pump was just sitting there stuck at the top with water just pouring over the basin. This is the third time in the past few months that something similar to this has happened so today I decided it was time to replace the darn thing.

I emailed my boss and told her I would be taking a personal day to clean up and replace the sump pump. While I was cleaning up and waiting for some of the room to dry I took apart the shelves in the laundry room since they needed to come down so that the new office space could be drywalled.

I went to Menard’s and purchased a new submersible pump to replace the old pedestal style that we had. These are supposed to be quieter, which would be nice since my desk will be on the other side of the wall. I worked on this for quite a while but finally got it installed. I also installed a new GFCI outlet in the laundry room for the washer and the sump pump. They both had been plugged into an old outlet with ground adapters because the outlet had no spot for the ground from the plug. Oh dear!

After all that I decided that I wanted to get a few sheets of drywall hung before calling it quits.