Cleaning the Windows

Since the weather here is too dry, I unfortunately started to have polen or whatever allergie :( That was really so weird because in my entire life I am very sure I do not have allergies. Then I visited the doctor and it is confirmed an allergie. Sad thing is...that means I cannot help my husband and his dad to sand the walls and the ceilings at the building site, since I am also reacting on dust or small particles in the air.

On the other hand, I found another way to help. I cleaned-up all the windows in our house. I know it is impractical to do that now that hubby and his dad are sanding the walls and ceilings. But.... we also have a scheduled visit from ProHaus Customer Service next week. They need to check our house door and all the windows' settings in our house.

Sanding the Ceiling at the Ground Floor Area (Schleifen, schleifen, schleifen)

Today hubby continued sanding the ceiling at the ground floor area of our house. We bought the Drywall Power Sander from Timbertech. It was a good buy and really helps a lot, specially for ceiling and higher area like our gallery.

While hubby was working, I was able to take a pic of him in our kitchen area :)

Smooth-over on the Walls and Ceilings (Spachteln, Spachteln, Spachteln)

Today hubby and I continued to do smoothing-over the ceilings of our house. I worked at the Kitchen ceiling while he worked at the Office Room. The second floor is actually finished, but there are some parts that needed to be worked-on. After the floor screed application, there are some parts that were broken :(

Inner Structural Work in Our House is COMPLETED!!! (Innenausbau Abgeschlossen)

At last we reached another milestone in building our family dream house. Though it was tough on our end since we were having the winter flu in our house for months now, we still continue to reach our goal of moving-in to our house this year.

Cleaning the whole house was not a joke. It was really stressful since there are a lot of things laying around that needed to be all-out before the floor insulation troop arrives. And the whole house needed to be empty and very clean.

Filling-in the Plasterboard and Sanding the Kitchen, Living and Dinning Room Area (Verspachteln, Schleifen Küche, WohnEssbereich)

It is again another day of filling-in the plasterboad and sanding some parts of the house.

Never Ending Work at the Building Site

Hubby and his dad worked hard on the building site and were able to close ALMOST all the walls with plasterboard. 

Substructure Lobby (Unterkonstruktion Diele)

Plasterboard/Drywall Guest WC (Rigips Gäste WC)

Substructure Guest WC (Unterkonstruktion Gäste WC)

Plasterboard/Drywall Office Room (Rigips Arbeitszimmer)

Update Update

It has been awhile since the last update on this blog.

We are now on the Autumn season and the weather is not so good. That means, flu is just around the corner =(

These are the updates for the last two weeks...

Hubby's Dad finished the case of one of our ventilation pipe, located in our pantry.

Finally, the last wood-based panel in our kitchen was installed. It took awhile because of the electric cables that needed to be fix on that wall.

 

I was able to install the last vapor retarder in our kitchen ceiling. On the first picture below, it still needs to be finalized and taped with Eurasol.

First batch of the ceiling substructure in our kitchen.

Ceiling substructure is now installed.

Hubby installed the drywall.

Hubby installed the last piece of the drywall in our kitchen. At last, our living, dinning, kitchen and pantry's wall were all finished.

Hubby installed the wood-based panels in our Guest WC. It was not that easy since it needed to perfectly fit on those plumbing pipes.

Filling-in and Smoothing the Plasterboard (Verspachteln und Schleifen die Gipskartonplatten )

After finishing the application of the penetrating primer in our pantry this morning, I then started smoothing some walls in our groundfloor. When hubby's dad arrived, he continued installing the plasterboard in our chimney walls and I worked on filling-in the plasterboards in our living, dinning room and lobby.

Applying Penetrating Primer on the Walls (Anwendung Tiefgrund Lösemittelfrei auf die Wände)

Hubby's dad taught me how to apply the penetrating primer on the walls. I started doing it on the chimney located in our second floor. After that, I started to apply it on our pantry.

Remaining Insulation Materials (Dämmung)

I thought I was finished installating insulation materials. When we checked on our bathroom upstairs, our Guest Toilet and part of our Kitchen, I still need to install some of it. Ok... then... achooooo! (sneezzzz).

I also cleaned-up the whole place.

I wrote markings where the beams are, in preparation for hubby's ceiling substructure installation.

Weekend Building Site Work (Arbeit auf der Baustelle - Wochende)

Hubby worked mostly alone at the building site this weekend.

His dad helped him last Saturday to install the ceiling substructure and drywall at the lobby. Though the week was hard at hubby's work, he was still able to wake-up early Saturday to work in our house.

The rest of the work below were done by hubby alone. Aside from that, he also fix all the cables in our dinning and living room.

Planking with wood-based panel.

Drywall installation at the iron portion of our kitchen ceiling.

Drywall installation on the kitchen wall.

Vapor Retarder Installation Guest Toilet and Lobby Tape Up (Dampfbremsefolie Installation Gäste WC und Diele Verkleben)

Today I was able to finish taping-up the vapor retarder in our office room, guest toilet and the remaining part of the lobby. It took me the whole morning to finish it.  It is because there were parts where it is not that easy to make sure that there's no hole on it (like for example, where the cables are passing-thru as well as the corners of each room).

I am happy though that I was able to do a lot this week and the whole house is now BLUE (because of vapor retarder). Hopefully it will soon be WHITE (drywall).

From the last picture above, I didn't close one corner of this room yet, because hubby still needs to check on the cables running-thru it.

Vapor Retarder Installation Guest Toilet and Lobby (Dampfbremsefolie Installation Gäste WC und Diele)

Today I was able to install the vapor retarder in our Guest Toilet and the remaining part on the lobby.

Vapor Retarder Installation Office Room (Dampfbremsefolie Installation Arbeitszimmer)

Today I was able to finished the installation of insulation materials in the whole house (except for the attic area). That part is not crucial for finishing the house :)

Since the insulation materials were all done, I was able to install the vapor retarder at the Office Room. It was tough to install it smoothly due to the heavy weight of the insulation materials. But it will look different as soon as the ceiling substructure will be installed.

Filling-up Chimney's Side with Cement

Hubby's dad filled-up the sides of the chimney with cement today.

He also installed the drywall in our kitchen window.

I was able to finish the vapor retarder installation today. I also installed the remaining insulation materials for the kitchen ceiling and walls. Aside from that, I also started doing the Office Room.

Hubby's dad already installed the drywall around our chimney on the second floor.