Installation of sub floor and laminate flooring

Installation of wall lights and pot lights in the HT room

Painting and Cleaning begins

Next for the fun part... well not the cleaning.

We primed and painted the ceiling while cleaning all the crap off the floors (drywall dust, dried plaster, dirt, etc)

Contractor in for Taping, Plastering and Bar drain

Here are a few pics of the contractors we called in to do the taping, plastering, corner beading sanding and installation of a drain.

We have power

Hooked up power to all electrical outlets and lights...woo hoo

Next Steps

Whats left to do:

• Plastering and Taping (contractor)
  
• Priming and painting
• Installing electrical outlets, speaker terminals, switches, pot lights
• Install circuit breakers (electrician)
  
• Install drain for wet bar (plumber)
  
• Install sub floor
• Install laminate
• Baseboards, corner molding and doors
• Install Projector and AV equipment
  
• Furniture
• Party to celebrate the completion of longest project I've ever volunteered to help with
  

Prepping Ceiling for Taping in Plastering

So now that the drywalling is complete, we'd like to call in a contractor to do the taping and plastering.

We've decided to go with a smooth ceiling finish. Our landing area is currently flowing right into the main area of the basement (since we knocked down the wall a few months ago) and is presently covered in stucco.

So we've removed the stucco so that the plasterer will finish both ceilings equally and we have the same finish throughout.

Pics to show you what I'm on about:

Hiding Pipe and Metal Pole

Problem: We had a pole and a pipe staggered going into one of our duct boxes.

Alternatives:

1. Box up the pole and pipe separately
2. Box both up into a large box
3. Relocate them (yeh right!)
4. Make them into a display shelf

Chosen Solution: Make them into a shelf. Drywall around the box and make supports for glass shelving.

More Drywall Pics

Completed Drywall Pics:

Drywall Continues...

The problem with drywalling is the following:

• Your walls are never square, no matter how hard you try when framing
• Your cutting blade goes blunt very quickly (we went through 3 knives)
• Doing the ceiling is heavy work even with T-bars to support it. It gets tiring fast when you need to take a full sheet up and down a few times just because you're off by 1 or 2 16ths on one edge.
• Your ceiling beams are never on the exact same level, so some screws go in perfectly and the next row almost crack your drywall because the beam is higher than the one before
• Boxes for electrical outlets, speaker terminals, central vac, etc... slow your progress down big time.

Anyway, after some long hours, drywall is complete: