Drywall:Step 1-Delivery, Step 2-Get it in the house, Step 3-Place in designated room, Step 4-Hang it!

This is called a Boom Truck and can deliver drywall to the 2nd floor.

Luckily none of the drywall went Boom! :) It was all delivered safely.

We had great help to unload and put the drywall in each designated room. John did a great job of organizing the sheets by room and my sister directed them as such. It made everything go smoothly.

Yes, that is the 2nd floor. Luckily there is a roof over the porch below so it helped out!

Then we had a huge crew come up for a few days and start hanging all the drywall (almost 200 sheets!).  You will notice a yellow device in the middle of everyone. That is a drywall lift. It was very valuable during these days!

John's is using a drywall cutting tool that uses a magnet to cut both sides at the same time. It made for an easy and clean cut.

John's brother, Joel, is using a Bazooka! A Bazooka tape dispenser that is. It puts drywall mud on the tape at the same time that it goes on the wall. This tools saved hours alone!

There were a few times when all hands were on deck. There were many nights that ran late too!

The stilts that Joel brought were awesome. It allowed the person wearing them to be able to put screws in the drywall on and near the ceiling without any problem. They are by far the most used tool (and the most fun).

Even grandma got in and helped! As you can see, our house turned into a dust pile! Everything is now white.

So here is a small idea of  the madness that we have been creating this past week. We have had lots of help and it is going really well! We are so thankful for all of those that have come out and helped us. We are almost completely done muding round #1 and have started a little on the 2nd coat. Hopefully we can be done muding the 3rd coat by the end of the day tomorrow and then we sand it and prime it.  We are slowly getting there! Just in time for the baby to come which is due in about a week. Soon I'll post finished drywall pics. Thanks for your support and in interest!

Love, The Derbys

Getting Stuff Done

Sean, our brother-in-law, came and tiled two of the three bathrooms. The is the master bath

 tile.

We had a company come out and foam insulate the exterior walls. The difference is awesome from sound to holding in heat.

We successfully completed our rough plumbing inspection!

After a little hiccup with our electrical inspection, we were able to fix some things and finally passed our rough electrical inspection as well. What a blessing! The inspector failed us and then told us he would be on vacation for a week and a half and we had drywall coming in two days! Stress! But the Lord provided a different, much nicer inspector to finish the job.

We passed the rough mechanical inspections, although this is hired out to a professional company. Now we just need to get the company to finally finish their job! They seem to be dragging their feet and we've had a few issues with the furnace as a result but we are confident that it should be finished soon.

So that is the update right now. Next I will post pictures of the drywall maddness that we are currently in the middle of!