House Update

Did you think I was ever going to get another House Update posted? I was starting to wonder myself! A lot of what still needed done Jesse and I weren't able to do ourselves. And then the weather wasn't cooperating! I think it was rainy and windy more in September and October than it was in the Spring!

But this weekend we were actually able to get some work done :) And this whole week is supposed to stay warm!!! Keep your fingers crossed that we are able to get all the siding on this week!

Here is what the house looks like as of yesterday. We got all the house wrap on (gray) and most of the fanfold insulation on (pink). We still need to get up in the peaks, but we can start on the siding in the mean time.

We even got some of the siding started yesterday!!! It was so great to see it all coming together! We've been told that once the starter strip is on and the first row if siding is started...it's all downhill from there :) Let's hope so!

Here's to hoping I have another house update for you at the end of the week or beginning of next week with a completed house...fingers crossed again!

House Update-Part 4

Slowly, but surely we are getting there! And we've decided that if we ever do work like this again...it's getting hired done! The good new is...Jesse and I haven't killed each other through all of this...LOL! I guess that shows that we must have a pretty good relationship :)

We finally got all of the windows in! This part makes me SO happy! We needed new windows so bad! You can see here the damage we were dealing with. The bottom of all the frames were rotten and had to be replaced...not fun!

This big window in our living room was very time-consuming because it came out in three separate pieces. And the middle was very heavy and very stuck! At least we got some hunky help...too bad he's Jesse's brother...Just Kidding!

And just to show you that I've been helping through all of this work...here's the proof! I got the super fun job (insert sarcasm here!) of scraping paint, repainting and caulking all the windows! A job I hope to never have to do again!

We also got all of the insulation blown in as well :) We'll be so toasty this winter! We only had one minor mishap with the insulation. I walked into the kitchen and wondered why it was so foggy/dusty. I saw a line of dust on the floor in front of the cabinets and opened them to find this mess! All I could do was laugh. There was a hole from where we installed the dishwasher and we'd forgotten about it! What a mess. I wasn't laughing so much when I had to clean it up the next day!

All in all everything is going okay. And our insurance agent came down the other day to see if we were going to meet out deadline (which we didn't). But he said they were going to go ahead and give us the rest of our money anyway because he could see the obvious work being done. I guess I could have left the insulation under the cupboard for him to see...LOL :)