Week 3

Get that man out of the basement!
I seriously cannot get Andrew or the neighbor Scott, out of our basement. The boys start every evening between 5:30 and 6:30.... and they are not done until 10:00-10:30. They are sawing and hammering and sawing and hammering. There is no peace in my house right now!!

Here is what they have completed:
1. Shell of my closet.
2. All the interior walls studded.
3. The wall near the stairs studded.
4. The wall of the stairs started.

They were excited becaues they have some pretty cool tools borrowed from a friend of the neighbors... some air compressed nail shooter thingy mabob.

What's my contribution this week? I made soft pretzels.

Pictures to come soon. (Of the work, not the pretzels)

Seriously we've been working hard!

This may be the last post for this weekend.

Yesterday we:

1. Completed all the painting we needed to do.

2. Put on the stainless steel cover Big Poppa made us for the sump pump cover. (He owns a metal fabrication shop)

3. Went to Lowe's and got:

100 2X4's

That's a lot of wood folks!

We borrowed Big Poppa's Stake Body Truck, the neighbor, a brother, and Big Poppa.

Andrew is extremely picky when it comes to wood. It's from working as a carpenter with a very very particular boss. So we spent 2 hours picking out lumber at Lowes. He has a system where he "levels" the quality of each piece of wood we selected. He is such a stud at picking out studs. Ha.

Here it is.

Basement Reno continued again

Alright, next step:

The former owners put in a "sump" pump. However, they never repaired the concrete where the sump pump was put in. Andrew's dad loves to help with our projects and most of the boys (minus David away at Pitt) came over to help.

Yes ladies, some of the man meat is for sale.