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Drywall time. i don't remember how many sheets it was total, close to 150 i believe. the house rock is all 1/2", and the garage and garage loft were required to be 5/8" type x, single layer. there was a mixture of 8', 9', 10', and 12' pieces

i'll let the next 3 pictures be self explanatory my 7th grader picked out the 5v Trinket from Adafruit. its a sub $10 microcontroller. first test fire of the number it was October when we finished it, so the first program he wrote was an orange and green haloween script which...

I've had an idea to make a programmable lit house number for a while, but no real time to even consider it. i teach Tech. Ed & Pre-Engineering to middle school students, and had a 7th grader who i thought would be up to the challenge of doing some extracurricular circuit design and programming...

Here's how the house weather'd the first winter. i didn't get to siding before winter hit, and there was still plenty to do inside.

miscellaneous insulation and electric shots

this is the north side of the house, and was not a load bearing wall prior to the addition. the 2nd floor ceiling and roof load over the laundry room is now transferred to this wall. i knew there was some water damage to the bottom plate on this wall prior to starting the addition, but had...

some pier footers for the front porch

I wanted the chandelier to be able to be lowered, but even the cheapest kits were way over priced, so i made my own. i used a worm gear style boat winch because they are self locking, and routed a few pulleys in the attic with steel cable to hang the chandelier. if anyone wants specifics, or...

The original entry way was awkward, you can see the idea from this picture. the stairs were off to the right when you first walked in the door, and there was a low ceiling above I left the original ceiling in for a little while to act like a catwalk to make it easier to work on the now 20'...

new to me heater getting all plumbed in. I spend a lot of time trying to get all the plumbing as neat and tidy as possible, hopefully it shows a little I scored a few of these heaters, so i'll plumb one in when I get around to it to heat the shop. if one doesn't cut it, I have 3, so...

im very **** about certain things, and for no reason at all, I was hell bent on having a stainless flu in the garage because I want it to look nice when finished. the original chimney was a traditional 3 wall flue with the inner most liner being a 6" stainless pipe in still perfect condition...

the heater will be moved to the garage, and by code, needs to be 18" above ground level. Instead of wasting the space under the heater by building a block base, I decided to weld up a table to support the heater. the legs are regular steel, but the top is 1/4" thick stainless scrap I had...

moving the original oil burner out of the kitchen all of this original plumbing will eventually be abandoned, as I ran all new plumbing to all the fixtures in the rest of the house from the new heater location. until then, however, this fun little nook needs to stay.

before I poured the pad, I wanted to sink an anchor point near the back of the garage. I machined a 1/4" wall piece of tubing and welded a base on it to hold a piece of chain. I dug a little footer and randomly stuck some rebar through the chain. I also machined a little water resistant lid...

I had to strip the old roof on the back half of the house, so here is my makeshift trash chute. I figured i'd replace the sheathing on the old roof while I was in there

my buddy scored me some free R-11 for all my inside walls for sound deadening.

this wall looked ridiculous. glad I decided to break it up with a roof line. it was quite a bit of fun getting the top course of OSB nailed up.