Five Day "Vacation" to work on the house

Whew! Josh took Monday, the 23rd, off of work, so he had Sat., Sun., Mon., Tue., and Wed., of "vacation" to work on our house. We got a lot done, but I'm glad to have a day or two off before we hit it again this weekend. The weather was not very conducive to our original plans...we were hoping to finish the roof, but Friday night and ice storm hit and kinda changed plans for us...trying to work on a roof covered in an inch of ice is slightly impractical. So...we worked on electrical and plumbing, and finished up the office, (it is our only upstairs room, and it needed sectioned off from the rest of the attic). 

It was a little discouraging when we arrived Saturday morning, the ice and wind had torn up our tar paper and our living room was a huge puddle, with water and ice still dripping in. We ended up drilling a hole in our floor to sweep all the water out, to hopefully keep from damaging the plywood subfloor too much more. Also, a piece of metal had been torn up from the middle of a row, because it hadn't been screwed down right. :( thankfully, the metal wasn't damaged and we were able to bend it back on Tuesday, after all the ice had melted.

Electrical is sooo close!!! The whole house is done except the office, which will be pretty simple, since we already have the cans up and wired, and to finish the garage. We ran out of single gang (plugs and single switches) boxes, so I just ran wire to where they should be, and as soon as we get some, we'll be able to finish. Josh is picking that up today, so I plan to finish electrical Friday while he's at work.

Steven Hunt came over and started plumbing. I don't know anything about plumbing, but Steven said it's almost done, he plans on coming back in a week and a half and finishing it up! I meant to get a few pictures of the pipes and tubs installed, but forgot when I was there today, so you'll just have to believe me :) 

I'm starting to feel like we're getting somewhere on this project, once electrical, plumbing and the roof are finished, we will call the HVAC guys, they'll install, and we have to build the hearth for the woodstove and we can ORDER INSULATION AND SHEETROCK!!! I'm just a tiny bit excited about that. :) We're shooting for the end of the January for getting insulation and sheetrock, hopefully it works out that way...because then we can start picking paint colors, installing cool light fixtures, cabinets.....and all that fun stuff! Here's some pictures of the beginning of electric, I didn't take many because I was busy working on it. :) We are much farther along now, I'll try to post some more pictures later.

Until the next update,

Josh and Rebecca