The Subfloor Goes On

Yesterday Hal and I put down another 5.5 sheets of OSB, enough for him to start work on the drains for the tub, shower and guest bath toilet. We're closing in, after this only 11 sheets left to go. We have to buy them because the original ones were damaged in the 2 years they sat outside under a tarp. Too bad lumber prices have gone through the roof, but it couldn't have been worse.

Sewer Lines

Hal's been busy working on more plumbing, he's finally connecting all the drain lines into the larger sewer line that will go out to the septic tank. This photo shows the pieces dry fitted together, today he is gluing them. I think all that is left after this section is connecting the guest bathroom. Once he gets everything done we can start putting down more subfloor.

You KNOW You Were Expecting This....

Here's the latest change in the floor plan.

We decided to get rid of one of the closets in the TV room, the one nearest the front door, and put the old mahogany entertainment center which, with the advent of flat screen TVs, is not needed for entertainment unless you call a whiskey bar entertainment. 

We also decided to add an electric wall oven to the pantry/wine fridge/baking center wall.  We'll just shrink the width of the pantries to compensate. The extra oven will become especially handy during the holidays for baking. With the walls going up now though, it's going to be a lot harder to make many more changes.

More Wall Progress

We bought some lumber today, about $440 for 30 - 2x4x10 and 6 - 2x4x16 lumber. That was probably $100-150 more than it would have been 2 years ago. But it is what it is. We used 2/3 of it to build the main living room that backs to the master bedroom closets, and the wall to its left which is the wall between the dining and laundry room. Hal wanted to get the laundry room wall up so he could finish the rough plumbing and as it is attached to the living room wall that also needed to go up first. Once he's finished the plumbing, we'll go back to installing more subflooring.

He will only be able to glue the pipes together if the temps are above 40 degree which doesn't look good tomorrow, so it's possible we'll be building the other TV room wall tomorrow. That is what the other third of the lumber we purchased is for.

But here we have the main interior wall. Hal is standing in the doorway into the master suite. 

OSB Again!

Thirty-five degrees outside, 32 degrees in the house, but we got all 7.5 sheets of OSB, that Hal trimmed yesterday, installed this afternoon. We can now access the front door!

It's starting to feel like a house.

This is what's left to do for subfloor. That's the wall between the master bedroom, where I am standing, and the master bath.