finally,

we started the real cleaning part of this summers adventure in new kitchen making.

I am starting to have a dining room again.. Of course  I still need to mop the floors about 3 times to get the evidence of summer project off.

Also, still not done on the kitchen.. There are a few squares of tile to go up, the sink reset needs to be done.  There are like two pieces of drywall that need to be dealt with.   Then I need to finish the mudding and paint, finally leaving the trim.  8^)

Getting closer there…

The front hall needs, mudding finished, paint trim the new tile floor and the tin up.. then some heavy double checking of the weather stripping.

The back stairwell, needs mudding 1 piece of drywall the light up the trim paint and tile floor.

The lists are shrinking

Ivan!

The grime of major projects has to be the worst part. The tripping over of soon to be tossed drywall bits makes things more annoying.. Being covered in plaster dust more or less non stop is not helpful. The project is getting close to finished. Once its done in a week or two, I am going to spend the first clean weekend in the house not enjoying the new kitchen but soaking all of the embedded plaster dust out of me by taking a very long very hot bath. Yes, soon the last of my heavy involvement big house projects will be over.

I am so not gonna miss it.

The attic will actually be the last dramatic project before we sell.

But, I am totally hiring out for the nasty parts of the job. Yea, I will do the mudding, yea I will lay the floor, wire the boxes and screw in the lights.. But the drywalling, insulation, doors and windows sub flooring and inevitable fixing of framing. Screw that, I will have that done for me.

Till then the mudding is coming along reasonably well. I was really slowed down by all of the crap in the way yesterday. Ok and a slight hangover from Saturday night. 8^)

But, I really expect to be hanging trim and stuff this coming weekend.

perhapses the weekend after.. 8^P

Ivan!

ok,

I had a nice long 4 day weekend… Thats better than a 3 day weekend because if you piss a day away ( which I did ) you still have three to get things done.

Things actually got done. Still I am a bit disappointed that there is still un-hung drywall in the front room. But to look on the bright side we have

A fully walled backroom

Nearly no holes in the kitchen walls

a very fully walled vestibule.

The electrics to the back room are all 100% and good.

The vestibule are 90% all done upstairs and running on a temp hookup in the basement.

We have a working doorbell, working lights and a total mess. 8^P

I should start mudding tomorrow night Finally I will be doing the part I am really really good at. 8^) some of the inside corners are looking kind of like they will be a pain in the ass.. Still, mudding means the project hell is nearly over. Things get to be clean after this.

The weather is turning towards colder. So this coming weekend I really really need to get started on getting the windows squared away. I mean in a get it mostly done this weekend and finished next sort of way. That means a quality trip to the window place to order a couple of replacement windows and finishing getting the good sashes back up in place. I would really really like to get the bathroom done this time around. It seems like fall always turns into a rush to get windows done before it gets crappy cold out.

Ivan!