Days 3 and 4

Exhaustion set in last night and I couldn't hold my eyes open long enough to write about what we accomplished yesterday. Day 3 was inspector day. We spent most of the day getting everything done to pass the electrical and framing inspections. After all that was finished we spent time putting up drywall nailers. It seems like no matter how hard you look for them you forget at least one.

Finally at about 3:00 the inspections were complete and we started insulating the house. With about ten people working it didn't take long to get everything insulated. A separate crew worked on decking the front of the roof and putting tarpaper over the whole thing.

The drywall delivery truck got lost, but it worked out for the good, because when they came first thing this morning, they used their crane truck to load the pallets of shingles onto the roof. Packing those things up a ladder is exhausting, back breaking work and we got lucky this time.

By the end of the day today all the drywall was hung and about half of it was taped, one side of the roof has shingles and the siding has been started on at least two sides of the house.

Now I really have to go to bed. We are supposed to start roofing at 7:00 before it gets hot and it is already almost 1:00 a.m. No rain in sight, so hopefully the roof will be completed tomorrow and most of the siding.