The hands-on work has been making some great progress, but I keep forgetting to take pictures…especially when my hands are covered in paint / primer. After looking at my last post, I realized that I should make the posts shorter and more frequent, so that will be my goal for a while.
- Priming, done
- Painting, just getting started
- Exterior insulation, nearly complete
- Solar diversion design, nearly complete
- Soffit and down spouts, house complete
What can’t be seen is the fact that we were hoping that we finished priming after the first coat, but after further examination, we really needed a second coat in most places. Back out to Sherwin Williams to purchase more primer and get back it. The second coat was put on with far more confidence as the skills with the sprayer were improved for both of us. Stephanie has really taken to it and has nearly completed the second coat single handedly with sanding in between the two coats.
Most ceilings have also now been painted, but that process is hard to document as it looks the same as priming…but it feels different when you are doing it, knowing that it’s the final step for that surface. We both can’t wait for the colors to start to appear, but realize that we should wait a bit as there is still some minor corrections needed and lots of interior work still yet to do, so we don’t want the final finished surface just yet.
The gutter and down spouts were installed just in time as the rain came and in one day we completely filled our 2300-gallon cistern. We hope to get the pump installed next week to get the water to our storage tanks and start feeding water to the house.
I’ll get some pictures and go over the solar energy diversion in detail in the future for those techie types out there.
Praise the Lord for our continued progress.