He Had Me Do What

We are using very few straight walls in the house. The wall between the bedroom/laundry and the dining room is going in with this phase. It is the wall you see when you come in to the house so we want a pretty curve to it. Our first thought was just a inward curve but that took too much space out of the bedroom and laundry. Bill left and gave me the task of finding the shape. He put down boards to show walls and tape measure to mark the laundry room door opening. He cut a bunch of boards in 12 inch lengths. This size of boards is easy to work with in a curve.


  
I tried using several different sizes of screwdrivers and then folded paper to get even spacing between the boards. Nothing worked so I needed to just eyeball it.

This is a screwdriver being used as a spacer.




 
Lay it out and then retry with another shape.



After I got the shape I wanted; ran a pencil line on the concrete. It is easier to see any problems with a line than the boards.




Didn't like that line; move boards to a different angle.

 Then onto my handy dandy Power Grab to glue the boards down until Bill has time to nail them to the floor.

 

Floor swept, couple of lines of the adhesive, final blow of any dust, fingers crossed it will look good and put the boards down.
 

I like it, just enough to add interest with looking weird.
 

Walls

  We have a bedroom and laundry walls!!!!!!!

Who Needs Floor Plans

There are no official floor plans for this house. Since we are doing it ourselves we can make it up as we go along. I had Bill meet with a builder so if one day he says he is tired or doesn't want to build any more we can call Kurt to finish up. At that point we will need to be a little more planned out. Until then we usse what is lying around.

New Drywall sheets

  Concrete floor











 

Drywall walls


 Concrete floors
  

We Are Building Again

Beginning to think this day would never come. All the rent houses are done and we have time to build on our place again. Well, we have one more house to lay a new kitchen floor in but we have to wait for the foundation repair guys to come and do a readjustment first.

We will be building the third bedroom, hallway and laundry room in this phase. Of course, the first thing we have to do is demolition.

This room houses the hot water heater, breaker box and controls for the heat and air, It will be reconfigured to be the bedroom's closet. The door will be moved to the garage so we can come and go without opening the overhead doors.



Out go the walls.


  Insulation pulled out to be reused. Condensation wrap to go around water pipes that will need to be run. All the hidden stuff in our walls you never give a thought to once drywall and paint go up.



The previous owner put in the funkiest HVAC system. We cannot use programmable thermostats and the wiring for each thermostat comes into this thing. To move it out of the closet and into the HVAC room upstairs Bill labeled each little wire  and we took a multitude of pictures from every angle to put it back together right.



 Up he goes! That area will be the HVAC room and will house the hot water heater. Lots of replumbing and additional decking for support has to go in.

 


  No walls to attach this to so Bill made the cutest little stand ever to hold the wiring. Most importantly; all the wires went back in the proper spots and our air works.