Vapor Retarder Installation at the Dinning Room's Wall (Dampfbremseanbringen Essbereich Wände)

In the afternoon, I was able to go to the building site for at least an hour and a half. While hubby's dad worked in the second floor, I continued the installation of the vapor retarder on the walls of the dinning room. Before I stopped working, I was able to finish the part in between the two small long windows.

Sanding Sanding Sanding (Schleifen Schleifen Schleifen)

Since hubby needs to work out-of-town, last Wednesday hubby's dad and I cleaned-up the building-site in the morning and in the afternoon hubby's dad worked on the second floor.

Yesterday morning, hubby's dad and I went to the building site --- I sanded the walls using a small machine and he did the next batch of filling paste on the walls and ceiling. In the afternoon, I went there for an hour to organize the ground floor and clean-up.

This morning, we (hubby's dad and I) worked again at the building site. Hubby's dad continued sanding using the bigger machine in the second floor. I continued installing the insulation materials on the ground floor. In between times, I also helped him sanding the walls.

Vapor Retarder Installation Dinning Room and Lobby (Dampfbremse anbringen Essbereich und Diele )

Today, I worked the whole day to double the ceiling insulation in our dinning room and lobby. After that, I was then able to finally install the vapor retarder. As suggested by ProHaus, we just need insulation material of 100 for the ceiling, except on the part near our walls (in the whole house) which should be in 240. But since we have extra insulation materials, we then decided to double it.

After installing the vapor retarder, now the dinning room and lobby looks blue!!! Something new in our ground floor. Unfortunately, hubby's vacation is over... therefore we need to wait for the weekend to install the ceiling substructure.

Electric Installation (Elektro Installation)

Electric installation is one of the most time-consuming work in our house. Hubby is doing all the cabling. I am documenting where the cables pass-thru and we are both deciding where the sockets, switch etc. should be. We also hired an Electrician who is once in awhile at the building site to help, as well as to give his professional suggestions.

It is not easy, since we really need to think about all the possible needs for switches and sockets. For instance, how many switches/sockets do we need in each room, in the bathroom, in our living and dinning room and of course in the kitchen. Electric plans is so connected to how we would like the room to be designed or arranged. For example, we need to have a final plan for kitchen in order to know where the sockets will be installed. We also need to know if we want to use spots instead of simple ceiling lamp.

Today, hubby continued to work on cables and the Electrician worked on finalizing and checking if all the sockets in our second floor works fine.

Planking with Wood-based Panels Living Room (Beplankung der Innenwand Wohnzimmer)

Hubby continued to plank the wood-based panels in our living room. His goal before his three weeks vacation ends is to see progress on the ground floor. Unfortunately, he worked alone most of the times. That is not enough to at least see a big difference on the ground floor.

Our birthday boy was all day working on the building site today. I brought him breakfast in bed this morning to celebrate his special day. The kids and I woked him up singing Happy Birthday. We ate good lunch at home and had tea time in the afternoon. BUT--- most of the time, he was working on our house. I wish and pray that on his next birthday, we are already celebrating it inside our very own house.

Visit of ProHaus Building Consultant (Besuch von ProHaus Ausbauberater)

Our ProHaus Building Consultant visited today late afternoon. He answered all our questions and checked if everything is all right. We also mentioned all the opened issues in our end and he eagerly gave answers for it. It is interesting to know that before our leveling screed arrives, we need to accomplish a lot of things and we need to make sure that everything is being followed. I wish and pray that we will get that before Fall season.

Laying of Rain Water Pipes (Regenwasserohren Verlegen)

This morning, hubby and his dad continued the work in our bathroom.

In the afternoon, hubby, his dad and a helper laid the rain water pipes. Unfortunately, hubby found out that two big pipes were defective. I called ProHaus right away to asked for replacement. Since the pipes were long, there will be an issue on the delivery costs. They can deliver it to us though, when the customer service team visits us (regarding the other open small issues that we have). Because of that, we will not be able to finish installing all the rain water pipes around the house. But at least it looks almost finish.

Drywall Installation Bathroom 3 (Rigips Installation Bad 3)

Hubby and his dad continued installing the drywall in our bathroom. This is how it looks like before lunch time...

The shower part is the only side that still needs drywall installation. But before we will be able to close that, our plumber should first install the ibox.

Drywall Installation Bathroom 2 (Rigips Installation Bad 2)

Late in the afternoon, hubby called me to help him and his dad to start the drywall installation on the roof slope in our bathroom. Three people are better than two on this part.

Ceiling Substructure Bathroom (Deckenunterkonstruktion Bad)

Hubby and his dad finished the ceiling substructure in our bathroom.

Vapor Retarder Installation Bathroom Final (Dampfbremse anbringen Bad Final )

At last the corner of the bathroom with lots of pipes coming thru and cables from attic to the basement is now finish. I started to install the vapor retarder this morning, while hubby was working on our pantry. This is the final vapor retarder installation on this room. That means, the whole second floor is finish with insulation materials and vapor retarder.

This afternoon, hubby finished the pantry and I finished the vapor retarder installation in the bathroom.

Ceiling Substructure Pantry (Deckenunterkonstruktion Vorratskammer)

Today hubby finished installing the ceiling substructure in our pantry.

Working on the Pantry (Vorratskammer)

Hubby and I continued to do work on the ground floor. Hubby planked the wood-based panels in our pantry. I finished the vapor retarder installation and also finalized the insulation.

Drywall Installation Bathroom 1 (Rigips Installation Bad 1)

Last week, hubby and his dad continued to install the drywall in our bathroom. Part of the walls are now green.

Though there are still a lot of things to be done, I am a lil bit happy to see that atleast our bathroom is starting to look like it's going to be finish SOON. I think this part of the second floor is one of the hardest and longest room to be finish. It is because of all the needed installations like pipes, cables, things like shower, basin, toilet and bathtub should be in place etc.etc.

Drywall Installation Room 3-4 (Rigips Installation Zimmer 3-4)

Today the third room upstairs is almost finish. Drywall installation is finished except on the window side.

Hubby also finished the electric cable installation in the second floor.

The next room will be the bathroom. This might take a lot of time to be finish. Though the water pipes were installed, we still need to finalize our decision regarding the shower (what type of shower division and how big the shower will be, and etc.). On Saturday, our plumbing/heating specialist will visit the building site and check on the needed work to be done.

Meanwhile, hubby, hubby's dad and I are starting to work on the groundfloor. I thought working with insulation materials is already history. Unfortunately I am wrong =( I need to work with it again and again and again. We have some of it left and before we will close the ceiling of the living and dinning room, we decided to put some more insulation materials there. That is what I am going to do on the next few days waaaa...

Drywall Installation Room 3-3 (Rigips Installation Zimmer 3-3)

Hubby continued the drywall installation in our room. I went there to help/assist him.

Loft Ladder and Drywall Installation Room 3-2 (Bodentreppe u. Rigips Installation Zimmer 3-2)

After doing the normal family errand this morning, hubby met his friends at the building site in the afternoon. Two of them helped him to install the loft ladder and they started the drywall installation in our room.