Spent money, not so much visible progress

Yesterday (April 16, 2007) we spent money. We bought the Freedom door and the window, lots of lumber and insulation, about 100 electrical boxes, 1,000 feet of cable, some of the light fixtures and other stuff. We spent no money at Home Cheapo, rather we supported our local business.

Today, the lumber arrived. Also, we completed removing nails from the kitchen floor. We screwed the sub-floor down (with about 2 pounds of 2" screws). The idea behind this is to minimize or eliminate squeaks. Nails are a common cause of squeaky floors. If the floor moves 1/16" up and down when you step on a spot, it squeaks as it moves along the nail. Our floor is screwed down, so it shouldn't move when you walk on it. Also, we pulled about a lot of loose or popped up nails.

We covered the floor in red rosin building paper. The idea here is to keep the basement clean (debris likes to follow gravity down into the basement through gaps in the subfloor). Also we would need to put the paper down under the new floor anyway.

We hung the electrical panel (if only to have some visible progress).

We cut out the old drainage piping that we will not use in the new configuration.

We also cleaned up all the nails, screwed the subfloor down and removed all the last bits of drywall and nails from the laundry room.

We cut in all the holes for electrical boxes in the dining room, the living room, the toy room and the craft room. Also we cut 1/2 of the electrical box holes in the kitchen. Finally we fully roughed in all the boxes for the laundry room.

This progress is important, but it doesn't look like much. Tomorrow we will cut electrical box holes in the upstairs.

No matter how many times you sweep and vacuum, the floor is never clean. But that's life.

The pictures below don't require captions. Enjoy.