Happy 4th of July weekend to everyone! Hope everyone is having a great weekend and still has all of their fingers (or at least has a good story if they don’t). It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve posted an update so here’s we go.

The electricians have finished their rough-in work, the one thing that we’re waiting on is to have the underground service hooked up by Xcel so they can switch it over at the panel. Sounds like that’s coming this week.

The plumbers have finished their rough-in work as well, they have water lines to run for the hot water heat yet though.

Since everyone was pretty much ready for it, we had the insulators through last week and this week and they’re as far as they can go until we get drywall on (then they’ll be able to finish up with the attic). It definitely looks different having the walls a bit more defined (and pink….).

The drywall showed up yesterday (7/6) and the crew to hang it is showing up on Wednesday to get rolling on that. Last weekend Mom & Dad helped me hang plywood in the utility room so the plumbers could attach the water and gas manifolds, boiler, etc. to the wall a little more securely than it would have been with drywall.

They started installing the new septic system last week and finished up leveling the ground off with a bunch of new black dirt this past Wednesday. Just in time for 2″ of rain to come down on Thursday, so we had some washout which prevented me from getting grass planted this weekend. I’ve got someone lined up to help get it leveled off again so I should be able to get grass down pretty soon so that washout doesn’t happen again.