Drywall in the last bedroom and closet lights

Drywall in the last bedroom.  Basically all of it on the wall with the window and door is going to be pulled off again because that wall is going to change a lot with the new door and window.

I also had to change the way I'm lighting the closets because of fixture distance requirements with shelving in the NEC.  I'm guessing this is a holdover from the old incandescent fixtures that actually got hot, but it's still in there so I had to change it.

Now I got the last piece of drywall up in that closet though which is nice.  I also installed these same kind of lights in the other two closets but I guess I forgot to take pictures.

Drywalling the hallway and front bedroom

This is what I did for working over the stairs, it worked really well, but it seems I forgot to take pictures of the drywall that I put up...

I'll be doing a cabinet thing built into the wall where the breaker box is, so it won't be exposed like that, but it's good enough for now.

With all this drywall up it's actually feeling like a house up here instead of a barn or something, which is great.

Starting on drywalling the walls

I wouldn't be putting up more drywall yet, but I want to get the house refinanced to take advantage of the stupidly low interest rates and get rid of PMI.  Talking to the people at the bank, I need to at least have the drywall up to get it appraised, and with the way the housing market is going that should be enough to refinance.  I'll definitely have to take a decent amount of this down in the future to do more behind it, but at least it'll already be cut.

Apparently I didn't take as many pictures as I normally would for this, but I guess I just wanted to get it done so I didn't.  This is the first bedroom, and I got it mostly done except for one piece in the closet.  Since there wasn't much more to do in the closet I also did the insulation in there.

Some stuff to make the electrical inspector happy

The electrical inspector didn't like how I had multiple runs of romex next to each other on a 2x4 stud, so I changed them.  The other way definitely looked cleaner, but oh well.

Cleaning up for the winter

I've been really lucky how long the weather has stayed nice, but it's that time of year that it could snow any day now so I really need to clean everything up.  Of course a nail had to go right through the middle of my hose.

No more scaffolding!

Now it's here.

I need to get the siding out of the garage so I can park in it, so I'm building a base to put it on outside.  Of course I used the skid steer to dig it out to make it flat/level.

Moving all that siding again was a ton of work.  Just need to wrap it up now.

Balcony wall and surface

Time to start on that balcony wall.

I used my planer to put a crown on it to help encourage water to drain off instead of just sitting there.

It goes higher than the roof so I don't need to make a railing for this side, and also privacy.

Gotta add some wiring for an outlet.

It actually looks like a real wall with the sheathing now.

The skid steer makes this so much easier.

I'll be doing a rubber roof here since it's pretty flat, but I've never done that before and it's getting close to the minimum temperature for installing it, so I'll just do it next year and use a few layers of plastic for now.

I got some pressure treated 2x6's and cut them on a slope so the decking is flat.  I'll be doing composite that matches with the front and back porches, so I'm just doing cheap wood for now.

This should be good enough for the winter.

Balcony framing

This post is longer than the other 2 so I had to get my dad to come help me get it up.

Have somewhere to put the joists in now.

Here's the beam I assembled for between the 2 posts on the other side.

Mounted the extra supports on the sides.  My engineer friend said to use 3 carriage bolts on each plus a strong construction adhesive, and notch into the posts so there is enough surface area for the beam that goes across.  Thinking about this now, I probably should have just ripped the hole deck off the house and then extended the foundation and built normal walls with large window holes in them... Hindsight is 20/20 I guess.

Beam is installed along with the hurricane brackets for the joists.

Most of the joists are in.

Sheathing is going on.  It has a slope of 1/4" per foot.

It was supposed to rain so I had to cover it.

Lots of stuff for a bonfire on the farm one of these days.

Roofing

First thing is to put down that membrane stuff.  I wanted one that was supposed to be waterproof, and all that was in stock was this weird stuff that almost had an asphalt shingle like coating on it.  It was really slippery because of all the sand stuff that was on it that it was really good at shedding.

At least the shingles aren't very slippery.  When I was buying the shingles I thought I got the right color, but clearly not... Well I guess I need to re-shingle the rest of the roof now too.

I couldn't find the right kind of flashing anywhere so I ended up just buying a roll of aluminum flashing and bending it myself.

And now for the house wrap.