So things continue to progress. Mainly the drywalling. The exterior had a little start last week, but no work was done on it this week. Hopefully they will be back at it soon.
We had a huge dump of snow the other day, 10-15 cm! The snow here is so wet and heavy. I went to shovel it off our deck and once I got the snow in the shovel, I could literally turn the shovel over and the snow would not fall out. Had to bang it out. The weather has warmed up since then and now we are getting rain on and off. This make the snow on the ground rather slippery to drive on, so that has been interesting. Not sure if we will actually have a white Christmas or if it will all be melted away by the rain.
We’ve hired a young Australian lad (he worked for our roofer) to come help out the last few days. Aron isn’t supposed to do any heavy lifting, so having him here was great. Aron could get all the things done that he was hoping to work on. The biggest accomplishment was the finishing of the walls of the pumphouse and the beginning of the installation of the flooring. I think it will be the most nicely finished pumphouse ever! Next step will be to get all our pumps and tanks installed and then we should have water in our house, a huge milestone.
Monday the drywallers should be finished hanging the drywall and Tuesday the mudding and taping crew will get started. Things are already looking so different with the drywall up. Makes us realize how much painting we have ahead of us!
Oh, and one big acheivement of the past week was that we finally have the official ‘pass’ on our framing inspection. This has been a bit of a concern for the past couple weeks, but our builder was able to make a change to how one of the major beams was supported which satisfied the engineers, so everyone was happy. Especially us!
