Drywall - Part I

Because we live in the sub arctic and are building our house over the winter we have had to change things up a bit. Normally, when building a house, you would finish your framing, complete all of your rough ins (electrical, mechanical, plumbing), insulate and then drywall. Now in order to get our plumbing RI (rough-in) completed we need to run lines under the ground.

Sounds simple right?

Well the ground is frozen right now, which is why we are drywalling and insulating in two separate phases. If we drywall and insulate the ceiling first we can then heat the house (we could heat the house without insulating the ceiling first it just wouldn't be very cost effective) which will thaw the ground so that we can get our plumbing RI done. We will finish insulating and drywalling the rest of the house once all the RIs are done.

That sounds like a lot of work just to do some plumbing.

To be honest it kind of is. It has set our schedule back by probably a couple of weeks and if we would have planned this out a little bit better we probably could have avoided the delay. You live and learn right? I would say that we will know better for next time, but we won't be doing this again. If we ever build another house it will be because we won the lotto and we can hire someone else to build it for us.

Also, we have stairs! Looky looky: