More late night work. "I will sleep when I am dead"

October 20th, 2014 Interesting day yesterday.

I started working on house items in the morning. Dad and Uncle Larry were there to help. Dad is still getting all of the electrical setup and sorted out. Uncle Larry was there to help in whatever capacity he could.
There was an emergency at work today. It was caused by a change I had sent through over the weekend. I had to go into work for about 4 hours to get it resolved. I had tested the change but had missed 1 thing. Dang, lesson learned. testing, testing and then more testing to validate any changes.

We got all of the new molding and trim work primed. I then got all of the baseboard sprayed with the final paint. Mom, aunt Cleo did a bunch of cleaning and grout work. Brescia and Lisa did some of that also.
Todd showed up and we decided it was important to get the roof done as much as possible. There are thunderstorms forecast for today. Once it got dark and Todd had to leave I hauled a work light up onto the roof. I kept working at it until I got it all put up. "Nothing more fun than roofing after 1".

I finished the last bit of it just after 3am. I am not too worried about rain now. I will need to get back up there and finish installing some of the enclosures and what not. Feels good to have this task at 95% complete.

Painting day

Painting blitz today. I finished all of the white ceilings. With much help we completed the kitchen and pantry. 90% complete in the family room, mud room and great hall. We also installed more roof panels and mostly sheeted the last two rooms. A huge thank you to Kami Ashton,David Ashton, the Mason family and Todd Eppley and Lisa Eppley. We are ready for kitchen cabinets on Wednesday. Tomorrow we paint the bathrooms so we can start tile the next day.

2 Weeks

The bank has given us a deadline of the end of October to complete our project. We told them up front that it would take 6 to 9 months. We then have had several significant delays.
1. Finding out that the foundation went only to ground level. This meant removing all of the interior brick walls and building new stick walls. +1.5 months.
2. Truss plant behind schedule. This delayed the roof trusses by 1 month. We did everything we could without a roof. We also had to vacuum gallons of water every time it rained.
3. Windows. Delayed by 2 weeks. The state historical society required us to go with a more expensive and longer to make windows.

We spent the weekend prepping and priming all of walls and ceilings. We also got more of the roof panels installed. Last Thursday I worked until 4 am. Friday I was busy until 5:30 am. Saturday everyone was tired and so we quit early at 2am.

There is so much yet to be done. Many of the items are contingent on completing other tasks. We have to paint before the kitchen cabinets get her Wednesday. We have to paint before we can tile the bathrooms or put down the wood floor.

SO Much Too do.