We have a client coming in next week from Chile, and have spent the entire week preparing. Most of what we needed to do we finished late yesterday, so after breakfast I came back to Blaine to see the house. They were supposed to get much of the insulation done yesterday, and I didn't want to miss that before they started putting up the sheetrock. I'm very happy I took the time to come back out here as they got a lot done yesterday, and the guys delivering the sheetrock were already busy at work.
This post has a lot of pictures in it because they got a lot done yesterday, and the whole look is going to change dramatically after today.
I arrived at the house to blaring Mariachi music coming from the garage and the basement. These are the only two parts of the house that weren't completely insulated, and these are the two places where the insulation crew was working. I'm pretty sure that unless we have a Cinco de Mayo party next year that this will be the most Mariachi music for a while.
You can see that they have blown in insulation where the rolled in stuff doesn't go. The pictures above are both from the stairway near the second floor of the house. You can start to see here where they have put the plastic taped up in front of the insulation. We met the owner Tom's nephew Jereomy shortly after we got back from our Honeymoon last year when we started thinking about houses, and he told us then how TJB is known for a particularly tight house. They take great steps to insulate the house with top notch stuff, and have a very efficient home. Looks good to me.
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This is one of the guys jamming to Mariachi. This is the front of the garage, and one of the last portions of the house that needed to be complete as of this morning.
This photo was taken in one part of the modified Jack and Jill bathrooms we have set up for future children. I'm pretty sure they'll be pleased with the insulation you see here. If he or she ever complains about it, I'll let you know.
Earlier on in the process, we were debating putting the Wirzbo infloor heat in the basement. We ended up deciding to "rough it in" with the anticipation of hooking it up when we finish the basement in a few years. That means having the builders put tubes in the floor once the get to the point where they pour the cement, so that they can later hook up the boiler and run heat through the tubes. Above, you see a picture of the entrance to our Master Bath. I took this photo because in it there are wires running down the wall from a soon to be hooked up switch that will turn on and off a mesh heating system under the Master Bathroom floor. This is the only place in the house we're running this mesh, but we're excited to have this in floor heat in our Master Bath.
This is our bedroom going into the bathroom. Just a good photo of the insulation, plastic and tape they are using for efficiency.
Here is the fireplace, and the future book shelves next to it. It almost looks like red marker on the walls, or a photoshopped picture with red lines. But that is actually where they've taped around the plastic wrap in front of the studs and insulation.
This is the garage again. This was about 9am, so you can see they were very close even then to finishing up the insulation.
This is much of the sheetrock for the house. When I was walking around upstairs I ran into one of the guys delivering the sheetrock. I talked to him, and he said they don't do any of the actual sheetrocking, just the delivery.
This is the machine they are using to move around the sheetrock. You can see a chunk of it being picked up by the arm on the machine. They are actually moving it up near our Master Bedroom window which they are using to get the sheetrock into the second floor. The guy I met was bringing a cart up the stairs so when they swing the sheetrock in through the window they can move it around on the second floor.
You can see here the sheetrock being swung in through our Master Bedroom window.
It was another pretty late night at work. I have some briefing books we put together this week that need to be in Toronto by Monday morning for a client who is meeting with the Governor on Tuesday. I was at the Blaine Kinkos around 7pm this evening working to get those printed and bound so FedEx can pick them up Saturday.
After I left their, I decided to swing by the house to see if they got all of the sheetrock moved.
There was no sheetrock left in the front of the house, and the house was locked up. The garage door that I had been using was locked, and the front door now has a lock box on it (I now have the code for tomorrow).
I talked to the next door neighbor (I think I've talked to him every day this week). He is such a great guy, I'm excited to get to know him and his family more when we get moved in.
Apparently some dirtball was dumpster diving for copper today, and after twice telling him to leave, the neighbor called Justin and they put the lock box on. That's all we need is to get our pipes stolen by some desperate punk right as they start to seal up the walls.
Anyway, the place is locked. I'm going to go by tomorrow before I go to FedEx. I anticipate all of the stacks of sheetrock laid out in each of the rooms. I'm curious if the sheetrockers were here today and if some of the sheetrock is actually up.
More tomorrow
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