Kitchen Button Up

The kitchen has finally been buttoned up. A plumber friend of Brennan's came last weekend and fixed all our water and pipe issues. He did a great job and was fast too. Then Brennan and his Dad put more insulation on the outside walls in the kitchen to make it nice and cozy. Brennan also used some spray foam insulation in the little holes, what a mess. It still hasn't come off his hands. Be careful with that stuff.

The house is so much warmer not that we have walls in the kitchen. :) Yay.

Now the dry-mudding begins. Then the texturing, and then the painting. Then we can finally put up our kitchen cabinets. I am looking forward to that.

Dry-Wall Back in the Kitchen

Brennan has put the dry-wall back up in the kitchen. He did a great job and it was all by himself. I helped a little by holding up the dry-wall for the ceiling while he pounded in the nails. To me, dry-wall seems very tedious. You have to make sure your measurements are exact and the pieces are cut just right. If you don't, the dry-wall will not fit, and pounding it in with your fists will not work, trust me, I tried and it hurt. Dry-wall is very heavy as well.

You want to make sure you mark where the beams are when doing dry-wall. The dry-wall should be secure, because, duh, its your wall. Also, you screws instead of nails, that way the dry-wall cannot wiggle out of its spot.

 Now we have to put up dry-wall tape on the seams, between the dry-wall pieces, then mud them. Its important to mud the wall close to perfect, to make the wall look seamless. After that, you texture the walls, if you wish, then on to the paint!