Dometastic

  I am finding it hard to update this blog regularly as we make a huge push to finish all the projects that will get us a CO. Our goal is to be moving in a little over a month! All we do is march back and forth from home and day jobs to working on the house.  We have so much to do but so little left to get a CO. Because we do not have a construction loan, we are not tied to what a bank considers a finished house. Often construction loans can't be closed out until everything is 100% complete including trim. This is not the case for us, so we are concentrating on the projects that are required by our building department for a CO. The bar is surprisingly low.... a little too low...so we will go a bit beyond for comfort reasons. Required for a CO in our town. Potable water Septic system Enclosed building envelope that meets the minimum for safety and insulation requirements One sink One toilet No exposed wiring Heat Pass a Blower door test Nothing "unsafe" (this can mean a lo

  We are DONE with dry wall and everything is painted!!! It looks almost like a real house inside. I can top that news by saying WE HAVE HEAT!!! Lets take a moment to celebrate having a functioning heating system in a cold climate in the middle of winter! The marathon of drywall is done for now. We still have the master wing of the house to do after we move in but we would like to just pretend we are done for awhile. It was a long slow dusty process but it looks amazing. The flat walls are a cool white and the dome surface is a warm cream. All our color will come from materials not paint colors. We have plans for wood, metal and stone throughout the house. We are finally getting to install more lighting fixtures and finalize all the outlets and switches. To watch a five minute video walk through CLICK HERE . Greatroom floor outlet in the center of the room. We decided that since the room is 32' across it needed an outlet in the center where furniture would be. Kids bathroom sconces

  We finished off 2021 with a flurry of work. We took a ten day holiday vacation to work harder on the house. Our goal was to get all the drywall hung and taped with the first coat of joint compound. We almost made it. The missing pieces of sheet rock in this photo are the only ones left. We still have a bit more to tape as well but many other areas are completely done. We even convinced the kids to do some painting. They did a pretty good job with the primer but there was some coloring outside of the lines. They at least kept the extra coloring confined to each other. Only some clothing was sacrificed during their "paint fight".  It was a long ten days of repetitive motion inducing soreness but it is amazing to have almost finished interior walls. When I start to complain about my sore arms and hands I just have to remind myself that at least we are indoors and we are not using shovels. All tasks pale in comparison to hand digging trenches or.... .....that super fun time whe