Thursday, June 25 (day 8)
Bathroom insulation pre-drywall
Pete & Sean early morning "planning" 
Dining room insulation before drywall
Kitchen wall insulation pre-drywall
Living room insulation pre-drywall
What a fantastic week last week was! Seriously. We passed all rough trades inspections at the end of the week and passed the rough framing inspection, but unfortunately we failed the initial inspection required before drywall goes up in order to have the certified Energy Star rating that we want when the build is complete. So a compromise was reached by construction mgr. Bill Dunphy and the Energy Star tester guy where additional caulk would be applied at certain seam points between top plates and studs and such as well as some add’l insulation around the attic baffles (not sure what that is exactly, but Andy says it’s a “good volunteer job” that will take some time.
All of this allowed the crew from Ford Motor Company Livonia to proceed with hanging drywall today. This was an amazing and extremely productive crew. WOW! And thanks very much to Mark Frisinger, professional drywaller and painter, for volunteering his valuable time to lead all the drywall volunteers Thursday-Saturday. We want to complete siding before the weekend is over too of course, but we cannot do that until we get drywall on the walls inside. Thursday houseleader, Doug Towner, reported that 65% of the entire house got drywalled today and that we should have no problem completing the drywall by the end of Saturday. This keeps us on schedule to complete mudding and sanding over the long July 4 break and will allow painting to begin on schedule Thursday, July 9. Yeh!
Thanks again to Trinity Lutheran in Ann Arbor for providing a great lunch for our crew. Judi & Betty – you are great!
