Let there be light

Aside from getting our behinds kicked by the ceiling drywall we had a pretty successful day regarding the guest house. This morning we took a trip to Conrad, think home depot for all things electronic, to pick up most of the things we need for lighting and wiring....

That’s it, we’re calling in the troops

After spending nearly 2 hours mounting a small piece of dry wall to the ceiling and then nearly knocking ourselves out when we attempted to mount a full sized piece of drywall we are calling in the troops. We have realized, that just the two of us can not mount the...

A built in closet…Are you serious?

Yesterday we went out to the stables and reevaluated our floor plan situation. We don’t have a lot of space to work with, with great aspirations and we where beginning to wonder how it would all flow.Next to the stables there is an empty area still covered by...

Three trips to Hagebau

It’s now 1.40pm and already we have enjoyed three trips to Hagebau today. Thank God the place is really close by. The first trip was expected, we needed more clips to mount the roof beams. That process went really quickly for the first two beams. But as it...

Framing the ceiling – no fun at all….

Today got off to a bit of a slow start because we had to make a quick trip to Hagebau around the corner to pick up a few framing brackets for the ceiling. It was a simple in-and-out process there but we were hungry so we decided to see if the Subway down the road was...

A huge step forward… and man are we tired!

It’s 6pm again, the usual quittin’ time at our house, and we had a huge day. Besides putting in the ceiling insulation earlier in the day we also managed to put in the vapor barrier and started on the studding out for the drywall. The vapor barrier ended...