Quick Update (Drywall and Stucco)

16 June 2013

Drywall mud and taped. I can't believe how fast these guys work. Not sure if that is a good thing or bad thing. 

Looking at the entrance, laundry room door and into the great room.

Garage shot.

 Garage water hookup

 Master bedroom mud and tape. Mud is still wet.

Arch doorway between master and master bath

 Coffered ceiling

 Kitchen. Check out Stacey's leg brace

Basement bath

Prepping for stucco. Another Saddletree house is being built in the back ground.

Took the workers one day (Saturday) to get stucco put on three of the four walls. I think the color of the house is close to the natural cement color. Another layer of acrylic colored stucco is applied later.

Stucco worker's nice ride.

Fire, Stucco and Drywall

13 June 2013

Many of you already know that a very large wild fire is burning in the Black Forest just north of Colorado Springs. The Black Forest starts only a 1/2 mile north of Cordera where Stacey and I are having our home built. Our area is relatively safe since the wind blows from the south and there is some prairie (grass) between us and the Black Forest.

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View looking North on Tuesday.

 Crack in the garage door glass. Also caught the fire in the reflection.

Prepping for stucco. Chicken wire is used as a base and styrofoam is used for the pop outs.

Cellulose R-19 insulation was blown in and some how it stuck between the 2x6's. Not sure how this was accomplished.  It looks like ground up newspaper. Some over spray got onto the ceiling insulation.

Front Office

 Entrance Hall

Some of the insulation didn't stick that well and R-13 was put in its place.
 Dinning Area

Master Bedroom

 Basement

 Drywall sheets ready for installation.

 Joint Compound

 Remember from last blog where the fan duct was damaged? Here is the fix.

 Mouse Trap waste water

Front office

Front Office closet

 Upstairs Bath with moisture resistant drywall.

 Front door hallway

 Basement view

 

Bedroom 2

 Wet Bar area

Plumbing, Electrical and Low Voltage

2 June 2013 

I know it has been a while since the last blog. We've been very busy with moving out of our rental and in to the basement of our friends Russ and Ali. Stacey and I realized that we've moved every other Memorial weekend for the last 5 years.

Here is the latest view of the front of the house. We got our fancy garage doors with some sweet windows and gutters are installed.

Stacey looks like a little girl in front of the 8' front door.

Door from the master suite onto the deck.

Master bed ceiling

Water-closet light and vent.

8' sliding glass door onto the deck.

Added 2 canned lights into the covered deck.

Kitchen lighting- 3 hanging pendent and 5 canned lights

Basement view after plumbing and electrical. The red and blue Pex on the right is for our future wet bar.

Basement view of the stairs and mech room.

Oops, looks like electrical guys sheared a vent pipe.

Busy utility run down the center of the basement.

Audio/Video pull tubes

Master control

Entrance lighting

Breaker panel

Added second canned light to master shower

Added 4 canned lights to great room

Coach lighting location entrance

Garage wash tub hookup

Water source

Furnace and 50 gal hot water heater

Furnace inner air source, there is another that pulls air from outside

Natural gas lines for deck BBQ.

Natural gas line for patio (More BBQ)

Added outlet for freezer in mech room

Welcome to the Jungle!!!

More pull tubes TV in Great Room

Power meter location

Tub hot/cold water valve

Dual hot/cold water valves for master shower. Left side is for rain shower head.

Laundry room hookups

Last picture...that is a lot of windows!!!