A New House - Episode 26 - Floors and Walls and Ceilings

People keep asking us if we are ready to move in yet .... um ...no. Our goal is to get enough stuff done to move in by Christmas, however. so we are focusing on the main floor for now.

This is the foyer floor. In this shot, I have installed wiring for the electric floor heating.

This is the "self leveling floor compound" over the electric floor heating. cool stuff. One thing we learned in advance is to seal all floor cracks with caulk, otherwise the self leveling floor compound" will drip on the floor below. 

Deb using the diamond tile saw "tweaking" the quartzsite rock for the floor

She spent an entire day fitting the rocks into place before thin-setting them into place.

grouting with mortar

more grouting

all done and triple sealed

We also installed in-floor heating in Kyle's bathroom, then put down self leveling compound again., 

After finding a good center-line, Deb starts laying the tile in Kyle's bathroom.

Finished tile

Installing the shower door. First I had to buy some 5/16 diamond hole saws to drill through the tile.

door and toilet are done

...and window trim. all we need to is the get the vanity that we ordered from ordered from http://www.foxdendecor.com/

Installing backer board on the fireplace chase .. apparently in a snowstorm. 

Backerboard is done... awaiting some log mantles. Deb is arranging quartszite rock on the hearth. 

Then work start putting up the log walls in the living room. These are 2" thick blue pine with natural edges, that are rough sawn, that we did some light sanding on. So they are relatively smooth, but the circle saw marks are still visible,. 

You can really see the saw marks in this shot.

 we installed them with 3" screws into most of the studs. 

 

Deb installed a foam backer material that sits behind the chinking... so you get a pretty good idea what it will look like when chinked.

This week we received the cabinets. these are maple and cherry cabinets made by Conestoga. But they are unfinished and "ready to assemble. Take a look at http://www.cabinetjoint.com if you are curious. They get great reviews and are way cheaper then most other cabinets.  

we also received the flooring this week. This is 4" and 6" T&G circle saw fir, milled at a local company in Metaline, WA  called http://www.smileylumber.com/