Inspections:
- Electrical: Passed 10/1
- Plumbing: Passed 10/22
- Mechanical: Passed 9/16
- Rough: Passed 10/26
Drywall all put up: 11/10
Drywall finished:
October 9: Ryann, Ben, Kellie and Gary came over. Kellie made lasagna for dinner. We worked on plumbing, insulation and packing up our things from the old house.
October 10: Kellie and Gary came to work at the house. My mom and cousin Brooke came over and helped pack some more of our things up. We got our entire bedroom packed up and furniture taken down.
October 11: My Aunt Carolyn brought my Grandma and Grandpa Shaffer out to see the house. I was so glad they were able to come out and see the house (even though it wasn't close to being done). Grandma had her proud Grandma smile on (for those of you that know my Grandma Shaffer, you know exactly the smile I'm talking about :))
October 12: Pete came out and worked on the heating/geothermal stuff. Courtney and Adam came by and brought Levi over for his first visit to the house. Kellie and Gary came over and we worked more on plumbing.
October 13 - 24: I somehow decided to neglect these days and don't have a great recollection of what exactly happened, but I'm guessing that my parents, grandma and grandpa and Kellie and Gary were around and we worked on packing, insulation, plumbing and electrical.
October 25: Rachel, Phil, Ryann, Ben, my mom and dad, Kellie, Grandma and I worked on moving stuff from our old house. We got almost everything cleared out of the old house in a pretty quick amount of time because of all the help we had. Gary worked on some electrical and then left to go farm.
October 26: BIG DAY - rough inspection passed. We ended up not having to dig up under the porches and fix the backfill issue we had, and with the rough electrical, plumbing and mechanical inspections all passed and the minor issues we needed to fix with the rough in, we were good to go. We were able to start drywalling that evening with help from my mom and dad, Grandpa and Grandma and Kellie and Gary and got the garage ceiling drywalled.
October 27: My mom and dad and Grandma and Grandpa came over and we finished all the drywall in the garage and our master bedroom ceiling.
October 28: Grandma, Grandpa, Kellie, Gary, Vince Pennington and my mom and dad came over. We got our master bathroom ceiling done and most of the cathedral ceiling done. Kellie, Gary and I worked in the master bathroom while everyone else worked on the cathedral ceiling.
October 30: Ross came over and dug up around the house and laid down the membrane. Seese came by and hooked up the well pump to our existing well. Grandma, Grandpa, Kellie and Gary came over to work on drywall again. We got the half bath, garage entry and laundry ceilings done. We worked on our master bedroom and closet walls.
October 31: Nick and I got up in the morning and went to Menards to pick up some things. My mom and dad and Vince were at the house at 10 and Kellie, Grandpa and Grandma got to the house around 1. We finished all the drywall ceiling!
November 3: Grandpa, Nick and I got almost all of one of our other bedrooms done and worked on some in the family room.
November 4: Nick and I had a nice night at the house where we worked on some things just the two of us. Every one else either had plans or were working.
November 5: Grandpa, Grandma and Kellie worked during the day on things at the house. My mom and dad, Nick and I came at night and worked on drywall in the hallway, bedrooms and closets.
November 10: ALL DRYWALL DONE!! We got the furnace working and turned the heat on so we would be able to get the drywall finisher in.
November 11: Mark, our drywall finished came out and started. Grandma, Grandpa and Nick put the basement windows in
It took Mark about 2 weeks to get the drywall done and we were ready to start prepping for painting on November 24. My mom and dad and Nick and I spent quite a bit of time cleaning the walls and floors so we could start painting. We were going to borrow Dow's sprayer to spray paint the primer on, but there was a missing part and we had to wait until after Thanksgiving to get the part, so we ended up doing it all by hand. We got almost all of the painting done by November 30. Venkat (my friend from work), Mike Barbour and Ryann came out on Sunday to help my mom, dad, Nick and I with painting. It was Venkat's first time ever painting but he did very well with it and had a lot of fun.
After painting, we started working on getting plugs and switches and electrical fixtures installed. We got our cabinets early in December and got those installed in a couple of days. We ordered our ceiling boards and have been working on getting those stained. We got them stained and polyurethane on them and started putting boards on the ceiling on Sunday and we were almost done today, but were two boards short, so I got those stained tonight after my mom, dad, grandpa and grandma left.
Things are coming together so nicely and Nick and I are so ready to be in our new home. We will forever remember the love and support that so many people gave us and helped us finish our beautiful home.
