New House Build in WV

[buckeyefarmer]

Merry Christmas!!
The window looks nice.

 

[EddieWalker]

Windows look great. Are you you weathertight now?

 

[TnWV]

Windows look great. Are you you weathertight now?

Everything but the garage doors, haven’t got the concrete in there yet, so doors have to wait. I did sheet the wall between the house and garage, so I can install a door there to block it off, if needed.

 

[TnWV]

We ended up with 4-5” of snow overnight last night and temps in the teens with a warmup to only 22 today. Glad it’s Christmas Day and I wasn’t planning any work today anyway.

Will be in the teens again in the morning, so we will make a run to Menards to pick out vanity lighting for the bathrooms. I need to know what vanity lights she wants to make sure I get boxes in the correct place. May still just stub the wire up in the wall and use an old work box later, to make certain they are correct.

It’ll warm up a bit in the afternoon, so I’ll continue wiring for the rest of the day.

 

[Milo]

... HVAC guy coming this week to get a material list together, and will get going on it after Christmas sometime. That is costing more than I wanted, but we are using all Lennox equipment, and this guy has been real good to me on my current home and my in laws house....

Your guy may do this but I'll just mention it anyway because it was this time of the year for me as well and I (and my carpenter and drywall guys really appreciated it). When they came to run the ductwork they brought a basic electric furnace and and just set it in the middle of my house so we had clean heat instead of the propane or kerosene heaters we were planning on using which emit moisture. As they did the ductwork they covered each register hole with scraps of plywood. They then left the electric furnace and told me to call after the drywall was primed and they'd return and install the heat pump and air handler and pick up the electric furnace.

 

[TnWV]

Your guy may do this but I'll just mention it anyway because it was this time of the year for me as well and I (and my carpenter and drywall guys really appreciated it). When they came to run the ductwork they brought a basic electric furnace and and just set it in the middle of my house so we had clean heat instead of the propane or kerosene heaters we were planning on using which emit moisture. As they did the ductwork they covered each register hole with scraps of plywood. They then left the electric furnace and told me to call after the drywall was primed and they'd return and install the heat pump and air handler and pick up the electric furnace.

I’ll have to check into that, seems like a good idea.

 

[TnWV]

Slow progress but we are getting there. Wiring is about 85% done. AEP showed up unexpectedly on Tuesday and hooked power up. They told me the day before that it would be the end of January, so that was a nice surprise.

I hooked a circuit up in the panel and installed a recept so I don’t need an extension cord from the current house. I may work on getting the rest of the circuits in the panel tomorrow.

Wife and her dad started insulating outside walls that are ready. Hopefully they will continue with that tomorrow.

Wife’s closet


Master bedroom



Nice to see insulation going in, get closer to drywall everyday. Got stood up 3 times this week by a drywall contractor. I’m not having good luck finding one. The good ones I know have either moved out of state or retired. Hopefully something will come through soon.

The mild weather this week has been nice, I hope it continues for a week or two, at least.

 

[rScotty]

Nice to see insulation going in, get closer to drywall everyday. Got stood up 3 times this week by a drywall contractor. I知 not having good luck finding one. The good ones I know have either moved out of state or retired. Hopefully something will come through soon.

The mild weather this week has been nice, I hope it continues for a week or two, at least.

I'm curious about the drywall contractors where you are . Here in the Western USA I have a friend who does drywall. When he gets a contract he hires friends to help. But he is one of the last professional drywallers. It's hard work.

Most drywall here for the past 20 years is done by Spanish-speaking crews. Generally there will be one guy who knows something about drywall, speaks some English, acts as the foreman, and he is the person the contractor negotiates with.

Then he shows up with about 20 of his buddies - most of whom are clearly just labor - and the job gets done very quickly. Quality is variable; and often just on the acceptable side, The price is always reasonably inexpensive.... and can be downright cheap.

The English speaking foreman is likely to bid on jobs involving tile, stucco, concrete, sod, roadwork, and roofing. But not framing, plumbing, or electrical. Yet.

Is that how it works in the Tenn/WVa area?

rScotty

 

[TnWV]

I'm curious about the drywall contractors where you are . Here in the Western USA I have a friend who does drywall. When he gets a contract he hires friends to help. But he is one of the last professional drywallers. It's hard work.

Most drywall here for the past 20 years is done by Spanish-speaking crews. Generally there will be one guy who knows something about drywall, speaks some English, acts as the foreman, and he is the person the contractor negotiates with.

Then he shows up with about 20 of his buddies - most of whom are clearly just labor - and the job gets done very quickly. Quality is variable; and often just on the acceptable side, The price is always reasonably inexpensive.... and can be downright cheap.

The English speaking foreman is likely to bid on jobs involving tile, stucco, concrete, sod, roadwork, and roofing. But not framing, plumbing, or electrical. Yet.

Is that how it works in the Tenn/WVa area?

rScotty

Your drywall contractors sound like many of the roofing contractors here. If there are drywall contractors like that, I have not come across them, yet. I’m sure they are around though.

I’ve known really good drywall contractors in the past, but not cheap. I’ve seen prices in the 65-85 cents per board foot, not cheap to me, but maybe it’s going rate. Unfortunately, drywall contractors seem to be scarce around here these days. All are leaving or retiring.

 

[fried1765]

Your drywall contractors sound like many of the roofing contractors here. If there are drywall contractors like that, I have not come across them, yet. I’m sure they are around though.

I’ve known really good drywall contractors in the past, but not cheap. I’ve seen prices in the 65-85 cents per board foot, not cheap to me, but maybe it’s going rate. Unfortunately, drywall contractors seem to be scarce around here these days. All are leaving or retiring.

Drywall prices in your are are quoted by "board foot"?