Priming

The sheetrock is basically wrapped up. Cheryl has been priming as I was working in the front yard. This weekend we had a 4 day weekend and went whole hog on priming. Unfortunately, the first coat is very time consuming. There is a lot of dust left from the sheetrock that needs to be removed before priming. There are also a number of places that need touch-up on the sheetrock. Additionally, the sheetrock contractor sanded the raw paper from the sheetrock so we need a second sanding after the first coat of primer to remove all the fuzz from sanding the paper. All in all we got a first coat of primer of 3 large rooms, a hallway, and a closet under the stairs. We got the goofs patched, sanded the first coat, and applied the second coat in one of the bedrooms downstairs. It's a lot of work, but the second coat went a lot faster.  We're looking forward to the next coat - color!

So. Much. White.

More work in a small space and cabinets

The rework of the front planter area continues. I was able to get the sub-grade work wrapped up and started back filling. I extended the perforated drain line to include another few feet around the foundation perimeter, which was not the biggest deal from a drainage prospective, but it moved the clean out to a location that did not interfere with our front porch. So overall it is a win win. A little better drainage and a lot better configuration to accommodate the finished porch.

Cheryl helped me pull wires for the new high and low voltage boxes. I still need to get the outlets and breakers to hookup power, but there is not much more to do. We need to pour a small slab and do final grading.

The end effect on the surface does not look very different than how it was a month ago, but in terms of drainage, irrigation, and other general functionality it is significantly better.

Cheryl spent the day specifying the cabinets for our "design appointment" tomorrow. It does not sound like much, but figuring out all the details to make things work is not a trivial task. I spent a few hours with her verifying things and figuring out how to optimize available storage. We are excited about the configuration we figured out for our kitchen island.

Extending the Perforated Drain Line

Back Filled!

Lots of primer, a car charger, and other improvements

Cheryl has been priming the sheet rock and making AMAZING progress. She has primed all of the bathrooms, the laundry room, the pantry, the family room, the kitchen, and is starting on the living room. I have been working on a small planter area where we will have the irrigation controls, some outlets, some low voltage boxed, and the car charger. It also needed some improvement with the drainage. The progress has been slow because there are two camellia bushes that I am trying not to hurt to much and also just too many thing going into a small area. I got a bunch on conduit and also irrigation lines to that we had done some initial work on to there final location. I also added a new surface drain to allow proper grading and get the soil elevation sufficiently down from the house. The major accomplishment today was getting a 220 volt 50 amp plug from a temporary location under what will be the front porch to its permanent location at the edge of the driveway. This makes our car charger A LOT more flexible. Now the cable reaches to more of the driveway so we have flexibility in where we park the car while still being able to charge. We are happy that things are not as overpowering as we were worried about given how much we are installing into a small area. There are still some more details to wrap up, but hopefully next weekend I will be able to back fill the area and get things closer to normal again. I wanted to add some photos of the amazing progress that Cheryl is making, but it is largely white on white so the photos do not show much.

Lots of Conduit and Water Lines

Tight Line Reworked

New Surface Drain

Relocated Car Charger