Stucco and Drywall

Soon after the frame walk and the frame inspection the drywall and insulation go in! Woooo!!!

Of course, while Paul and I were in Reno for Paul's best friend's wedding, they started the putting the insulation in the walls and installing the dry wall. Our real estate agent was on top of it though, it's like she had a sixth sense that it was going to happen and stopped by the property and they were putting the walls up. She snapped a bunch of pictures for us (below) so at least we had them to document.

One of our upgrades was to put insulation between the great room and the guest rooms that will eventually be the babies rooms :) We're going to be hanging the tv on the wall and the insulation will help muffle the sound that may travel into the other rooms.

this picture is the shared wall between guest/baby room and great room - you can also see the studs they put in for where we'll hang the TV.

Then it's time for the dry wall!!

3/2/15

3/2/15

and there's Paul sitting on the bath tub! That spot is my progress spot!

And the stucco, covering that crazy chicken wire!

And can I just share this next picture?! I absolutely adore it!!

3/2/15

After all the drywall and stucco goes in, they smooth out the edges, cut the holes for electrical and add texture:

wall texture with a fucking Jesus Fish on it...I'm sure Jesus had nothing to do to create wall texture...sheesh!

in the great room - 3/8/15

outside garage - 3/8/15

they put a few piles of dirt on the side of the house - we think it's to fill in the land a bit

That's it for now :) Catch ya later!

Electrical!

And I said, let there be light!! Well not literally, but holy wires throughout the house. They put in all of the light switch wiring and housing, ceiling lights/fan assemblies and light fixtures housing. We had what they call a frame walk on Feb. 12th, were we go around the house with the superintendent of the build and have them make any last changes or adds before they start the insulation and dry wall. We established where we wanted a half hot (well, a full hot, only one since they wanted to charge us an arm and a leg for each one). We also had the builders put in studs for where we'll be hanging the TV's.  We added a light switch and light for the attic space and a larger opening for the attic. Paul also requested an couple extra electrical outlets in the garage on a separate circuit so that he doesn't blow the breaker. We also got a cable outlet in the garage for the rare occasion he'll be watching tv while in the garage. Now, part of me thinks that may have been a bit of a waste because of the wireless cable boxes the TV providers have. Oh well.....it's Paul's deal.

Here are a couple pictures of all them wires!!

Master bedroom/kitchen wall

this is where all the wires go out to the breaker - which is by the master bath

Kitchen

Front porch

 While we were at the frame walk, the workers were putting up the exterior walls - which weren't all plywood - part of it seemed almost like styrofoam...very weird. Then they put up what looked like chicken wire stuff all along the exterior on top of the styrofoam walls (styrofoam...really?!), which I'm assuming is to help keep the stucco in place when that goes in. At the same time they were doing that, they had brought the roof tiles in and stacked them up on the roof.

2.12.15

That's the roof tiles over on the right

I really feel like this shit is styrofoam....they built our house with styrofoam! huh 

2.14.15 - marking where we want the studs to go

we wrote on the ground where we want the studs positioned

almost all the styrofoam on and roof tiles up 2.14.15

smile! It's Valentines Day!

See ya later!!