Insulation

The insulators stopped by yesterday and did spray foam in the joist area. This is the area above the front door. I would have liked them to spray foam the entire house, but apparently that costs like 12,000 more then what we are doing.

Garage floor

We have a garage floor. As you can see we insulated the walls as well. Now Steve says we have to poly the walls and ceiling as well... What a pain, on Saturday he said not to do that because they would have to do it anyway before they dry walled. I am getting very frustrated with him in particular.

Stone work

Here is some of the stone work that was done on Saturday, It looks REALLY nice with siding. I think we made a great choice on that.

Possible security system

I wanted to allow for the wired security system in the future, so I ran cat5 to any areas where I thought I would need it in the future. Greg thought we could just do wireless and not have to worry about this, but I am comforted by the idea of having actual wires run to the areas.

We went out for dinner with Jen's aunt, uncle and cousins the night after we did this and Dave offered to come over and jam the wireless signal that Greg wanted to install ;)

Speaker placement

These are mud rings for the speakers in the living room. Chris D. put these up for me while I worked on the low voltage stuff. We have 5.1 in the living room and master bedroom. This isn't a home theater obviously, but should be nice for casual movie watching and out of the way.

Low Voltage outlets

This is an example of the low voltage conduit that we ran over the weekend. As you can see the box is on the wall, and the conduit either runs into the attic, or into the basement. From there I can run whatever I want after the drywall is installed.

I will run a combination of cat5e, coax or speaker wire to them. I have at least 2 boxes in each bedroom, and a couple others strategically placed around the house.

Over the weekend

Over the weekend we did a bunch of work on the house. On Saturday, Greg and Joanne came down and help us run some low voltage, add a couple of outlets... Chris D. came over as well and ran speaker cable all over the place :) Then today, we finished up running low voltage and my parents came over and insulated the garage. I will get some photos up tomorrow and explain everything a little bit better as well.