The Messy Job

LETS ROCK N ROLL

You thought I was going to talk about our septic installation. But no, the award goes to the drywall job for being The Messiest Job. Scrap and dust and empty glue tubes everywhere. The proposal said "daily site cleaning and sweeping" but that has not happened. However, I'm not complaining about it because I just want them to be working to get all the drywall up as quick as possible. I am capable of sweeping.  I am told the taping will start tomorrow.  My goal is to be able to prime before Thanksgiving and spend the holiday weekend painting.

Halloween costumes!

Here's a nice shot of the upstairs hallway. They pretty much finished on the 2nd floor and have started the 1st. Which, leads me to the next story...

The one day I was there checking in, it was raining. No big deal, right? Because we are "dryed-in". Except I found a couple leaks, in the mudroom and laundry room.  Well, we can't get drywall if there is water coming in. So we tried to figure out where the leak was coming from and we had the roofer come out to make a patch along where the wall meets the roof. Saturday it rained again and 2 of the 3 leaks were gone, but still one left, which is 1 too many, of course. So today the roofer came back out and installed the flashing and gable tyvek. Alex ran the hose against the wall and the leak is fixed, so, thankfully the drywall can continue.
Below is a series of pictures which show the chain of events.

The leaks!!!!

 Alex with his head in the ceiling trying to find where the leak is coming from.





















The 'trouble maker' side. See that first story roof where it meets the wall (just below the window)? Yep, that's where the water was finding it's way in. Not anymore though! Thanks to our roofer for finding a way into his schedule to make the flashing & tyvek happen, even though it wasn't supposed to be done until the siding work (which is supposed to start this week too, but who knows what day---rain expected again Friday).