Guest House Construction: Part 32

Guest House Construction: Part 32

Now that we have AC in the guest house I'm willing to tackle some projects myself. One that I had a small window for was decking the attic spaces. I was waiting for electricity and AC, but wanted to get it done before carpet went in. I bought 15 sheets of 8x4 plywood and set up shop in the "No Lady Lounge". There's nothing tricky about it really, it's just work. There's a lot of measuring and cutting...and measuring. The hardest part really is lugging the plywood upstairs by yourself. I'm glad we did it though because this place has tons of door-access attic space that is perfect for storage.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

It may not look like much, but the spaces are bigger than they look in the pictures and I should be able to store virtually everything we have that doesn't require climate controlled status...like 10 Christmas trees.  This is a job that's tricky to do when a house is finished or occupied but simple during the build. If you build, do it. You'll thank me later.

The crew that patches holes and fixes all the walls came out and did all that. It was a pleasant surprise to see them. They went through the place with a fine toothed comb and fixed every little imperfection, many of which I had never, and probably would never have, noticed.

The walls get damaged a lot during the build process. It's usually on purpose, such as cutting holes for the under cabinet lighting.

 
Some of the damage is accidental, like from some idiot carrying giant sheets of plywood up a tight stairwell all day long.

On Wednesday morning some guys showed up and installed the front door. This is huge, as now the house is, theoretically at least, sealed up. It still needs to be finished, but we can address that later.

I spent a couple of late nights out there installing all the pulls. The singles pictured here are easy, but the double drawer pulls take some thought and effort. We have 80-something pulls!...but they're all on now.

The carpet guys showed up on Monday morning and went to work. It took them all day, but they got every piece of carpet installed. 

We went with a pretty thick pad (don't skimp on the pad people) and a neutral carpet that won't show dirt much - I hope.

The stairs take them some time as you can imagine. The trim guy had come and framed out the stairway prior to carpet, which was necessary. It would have been better to have it all painted first as well, but I am frustrated to the point of not turning any work away so close to the end, even if it's out of sequence. 

We're really close now. We need the painters to come and make everything fresh and shiny again and we need a clean up crew to really scrub the place. The gas won't be hooked up until the pool is finished and the new driveways won't get poured until that happens as well. I'm hopeful that the pool will get plastered this week. Fingers crossed.