Walk this way...

Onto our brand new steps. The makeshift steps are out and we're back to a nice walk up to our front door.

Another project finished

We finished the exterior painting today. Both the back and side walls were finished. We kept the chimney unpainted. You can't see it all that much from the street plus it's huge and would have required a lot of effort to paint. But we think it looks good unpainted. Pretty productive weekend for us - windows all replaced, painting finished, and the old hvac ducts were capped off. Plus Kristin mowed the lawn and we stocked up at Home Depot for the next few weeks worth of projects. Up next are running the new hvac ducts and getting some of the electrical roughed in.

A new skill

We've been thinking about whether to sub out the HVAC rough-in or just do it ourselves and yesterday we made a partial decision when we got tired of waiting for people to get back to us with quotes.  We started taking out some of the extra returns and supplies that went to the second floor and the old kitchen and dining room.  We sealed off a couple of the vents and bought our new materials so we'll run the new ducts for the first floor over the next few weeks.  We may still sub out the second floor installation at some point but the first floor, at least, will be all our own work!

Windows are done man

We finally finished all the replacement windows. We did the last two today. All that's left is to paint the trim. Still a ton more to do, but at least we have most of the 3 day weekend left. We're hoping to get some of the hvac and electrical rough in started as well as the exterior painting finished.

Porch progress

More progress on the front porch today. The decking was mostly finished yesterday and they're making short work of wrapping everything in the pvc material. And the best news is we finally got our AC unit hooked back up so we're not roasting in the house anymore.

Siding finished

The crew finished up the siding and they're currently installing the porch decking. The porch trim will be finished up by the weekend and the outside of our house will be pretty much finished!

Painting Day

We tackled painting today and tried out our new paint sprayer on the side wall.  It took a bit of time to prep the wall and tape up the band board and windows (or window, since three of the four on that wall still need to be replaced and so could be painted over) but using the sprayer made painting much faster than just using the rollers.  We still did one quick coat with the rollers to even out the paint but all in all, using the sprayer was a big improvement over painting it all by hand. Also, I managed to not fall off anything today so I'll consider that an improvement over yesterday!  But you might notice that Brian is the only one on the ladder...