Week of January 26th

It was another busy week at the Troutman house!!!
Monday the flooring was installed in the living room.


The boys approve of the new wood laminate (which is one of the reasons we picked it).


I forgot to mention that last week we got one coat of paint on the walls of the Three Season Room. The walls are T-111 and for those of you not familiar with it - it is typically used as an exterior wood and has grooves - which means this week I had to go back with a paint brush and paint all of the grooves.

During the week I also touched up the crown molding in the living room from the nail holes when we put it up.

The weekend was busy - we installed the baseboards in the living room and I puttied and caulked them.


Of course the Boys provided moral support while we worked.


After that we moved down to the Three Season Room and put a second coat of paint on.


Then we proceeded to put insulation in the ceiling.


Hershey slept in a bed in the new lower room outside the Three Season Room door - just in case we needed him.


After the insulation was in we started on the ceiling. The ceiling we are installing is called "Ceiling Max", unlike traditional drop ceilings the grid attaches to the ceiling joists so you don't loose much height. The grid goes up first - which calls for lots of measuring.



We decided to put in dimensional ceiling tiles with a "sand" type texture.



Because we are putting in dimensional tiles we had an extra step of cutting all of the perimeter tile edges so they would drop down - once again more measuring. By the time Forrest had cut the 20th tile he was getting really good at it.


Thankfully we finished the ceiling Sunday evening.



Next weekend we hope to get the flooring and baseboards installed.