The picture you posted of your parents' house appears to be a dentists' office.

I took the picture of the dentist office to show my mom that her paint wasn't the only one that changed in the light...see how I said "incidentally, I was recently in a new office..."

blindey said:

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No. My reading comprehension is sub-par these days.

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Username checks out on this one. lol

Drywall guys did show up yesterday. I was a little mad that they pushed me a few days in their schedule. But after looking around last night I decided that if Mrs. Gringo and I had started hanging drywall the day it showed up, we wouldn't be as far along as these guys are in one day. So that makes me feel a little better.

Hard to take pictures of. Once it's all done I will take some with a wide angle camera.

Living room looking at laundry and hallway



Living room from the storage loft.



Looking in back door from shop



Master bath linen and w/c



Master bed




They pretty much did everything 12' and down. Today I assume they are scaffolding everything and will finish up. They also have A BUNCH of screws to do. They pretty much just put in a few nails to hold the panels up, then will screw it all at the end. This is why some panels look like they don't fit good in the pictures.

Last weekend I was able to hang the door into the storage loft from the shop.

from the inside





from the shop



It's not intended to be "hidden". It just seemed easiest to build the door like the rest of the wall. I will add a wheel on the loose end of the door to prevent it from ever sagging or getting out of whack. Also some sort of jam with weather stripping.

I can't wait until the TexAgs party....

The tape and float was completed a day or 2 after the last update, the 19th I believe. Texture was done the following Thursday.



Didn't get a pic of texture.

So all last week we worked on painting the whole house and got it done Saturday. We started by priming/sealing all the drywall. I've painted a handful of houses growing up (rentals of my parents) and I never needed anything other than a roller and a single brush. So we started into the priming with both Mrs. Gringo and I rolling. That lasted about an hour before I called it off. The primer was so thick you couldn't get any coverage out of a full roller. So I FORCED myself to buy an airless paint sprayer . The Graco Magnum LTS 15 is what I ended up getting. I believe it is the same as the magnum x5, just the Lowes specific model number.

The airless sprayer is amazing. Would highly recommend if you own rental property or something. The x5 is the 2nd smallest in their line up but does make it into the middle of the road product series, so it's not the lightest duty one out there. I'm sure it will last a good while if properly cleaned and taken care of each time.

All that said, I don;t have any pictures after paint. I will get some at upload this week.

Sunday a friend came over and we koncked out a big chunk of the great room ceiling.

Before:



After: (from a different angle)




Sometime between now and the last post we also bought a used shredder. John Deere (Frontier) RC1072. Nothing special but works good for our setup.

before:



after



still just weeds, but looks much better.

We also had a friend come pour a sidewalk from a side door to the front porch. The sidewalk has a bump out on it for the A/C unit to sit (one of the main reasons for doing the sidewalk)

Before:



After:




A/C people are at the house now. So I think if I install a few doors this week, we can crank up the A/C in the house. and maybe, JUST MAYBE, this weekend will will start sleeping in the house.

Need to get floor guys back to remove floor covering and polish up the concrete, then we will start moving furniture in.

We were able to finish up the other side of the great room after work last night:


Final wall color can be seen here too.

I've got some paint touch up to do, handful of missed screws to hit, few small filler pieces, and some brackets to paint black and the ceiling should be done.

I'm pretty happy with the end product. Mrs. Gringo is a fan as well.

We finished up the small odds and ends on the ceiling early Saturday. It amazed me how much better it looked with the brackets being painted matte black.



With this done we removed the scissor lift from the house and installed the 2 remaining exterior doors. These go from the house to the shop and from the conditioned loft to the non conditioned loft. Didn't grab a picture of the house/shop door.

loft/loft door:



We had to get the lift out to put the doors on, the doors had to go on so that we could finally do this:



A/C is blowing!

Chris is shooting for late this week to get the floors polished and ready to go. So Mrs. Gringo made the call to just stay in the doghouse this week so we don't have to shuffle stuff around while floors are begin done.

To help Chris's guys out, I cleared it with him, and started to pull the floor covering and vacuuming them.

Lighting in pics isn't very good, but:



Master bed:



Master closet:



Master Bath:



I've got the 2nd bedroom up too, didn't take a picture. I will pull the living/kitchen/hall the day before they show up since they are the high traffic areas.

I also installed all the switch plate covers that I could. Between the 2 doors, the switch plate covers, and the smell of conditioned air, it feels A LOT more like a house now.

We plan to get a priority list set up tonight so we know what to focus on next (bathrooms, cabinets, closets, etc.)