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.
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 when we were building the footer. I had to belly crawl along through the rebar (in 90 degree weather) to remove all the squishy silt that washed in during a summer storm using a tiny garden shovel. Fun times...Fun times...
I will take almost any job over one that uses any type of hand digging tool.
We still have the two curved walls to complete. They will be skinned with plywood instead of sheetrock. As for the next step after painting. We are not quite sure because it will depend on how quickly supplies arrive. We need to get the heat ready to go and get the water tank transferred over from the heated room in the barn to the utility room in the house. We have been heating the house with a small oil filled radiator style space heater. (you can see it in the photo above) While we wait for supplies we will most likely start setting up the kitchen cabinets. We are getting to the point in the build where we start installing finish type things. Our focus will be on the kitchen and one bathroom so we can meet the basic requirements of a CO. The goal is to move in as soon as possible and finish the house while we live there.
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