Sheetrocking

On the menu for the day was sheetrocking the addition, some more plumbing work, and more siding work...painting a bajillion more shakes and nailing them to the house and garage very meticulously so they line up perfectly with the old shakes. Also, we (mom and me) learned last week that they no longer make the super wide cedar shakes that we have in some places on our house (~14+" wide?) because most of the cedar shakes now come from Japan and China and they don't have cedar trees that big evidently. So, to make the new shakes look more like the old ones, they are working super hard to match up grains in a few of the shakes here and there and nailing them down so they look like one large piece!

The white thing to the right is the pipe that brings heat upstairs in the wall between the kitchen and the dining room before the plumber took it out today

He then put in a new pipe that re-routes the heat so we can cut part of this wall out. In the end, this wall will look like the doorway between our dining room and living room, but a few inches wider. 

This is where the new pipe does another 90 degree turn to meet back up with the  register upstairs

This crazy yellow gizmo holds sheetrock in place so they can screw it into the ceiling!

The entire ceiling is done everywhere but the kitchen, and all of the walls are either completely done  or half done

The garage

Left side of the back of the house

From left to right: new color, primer, old/partially scraped paint