Week 5

Sunday, December 23th
Christian and I worked in the house, taking off tiles and putting slots in the walls for the electrical wiring.

Monday, December 24th
Merry Christmas! No one working in the house today, just some very last minute Christmas shopping and celebrating with the family.

Tuesday, December 25th
Off to Birkenfeld to celebrate there. Not working in the house today.

Wednesday, December 26th
Today we enjoyed a relaxing Christmas day, just Christian, Damien, and me.
Credits: frame from Simple Sets #26 by [ksharonk] available at twolittlepixels.com; staple from Stationary Plus 2 by [ksharonk]; font: Joyful Juliana

Thursday, December 27th
My mom and Siggi drove up from Birkenfeld. While Siggi and Christian worked on our water pipes, my mom, Damien and me picked up the insulation and new plasterboards for the top floor restoration. My dad has a small trailer to hook up to the car, so we were busy all morning driving back and forth. After 3 trips we had it all at the house. The dry wall installer, Mr M., started as soon as we had the first load of building materials there. He insulated the entire top floor in one day!
Credits: frame and staple from Stationary Plus 2 by [ksharonk]
My mom took Damien to my in-laws house and played with him and succeeded in getting him to take a nap. In the afternoon I took out the floor pavement in the bottom bathroom with the hammer drill our heating installer kindly borrowed us. I also removed the layer of tile adhesive/concrete from our kitchen floor, but didn't bring it out to the garage yet.
Credits: frame from Unadorned Freebie by [ksharonk]; staple from Stationary Plus 2 by [ksharonk]; font: Joyful Juliana

Friday, December 28th
My mom and Siggi are back in Saarbruecken. My mom watched Damien today and Siggi and Christian continued working on our water pipes. Mr M. started putting up the plasterboards, and the heating installers were back to put up the front-wall installation in the bottom bathroom.
Credits: frames from Simple Sets #26 by [ksharonk] available at twolittlepixels.com; staple from Stationary Plus 2 by [ksharonk]
Bucket by bucket, I took down all the tiles & rumble from the kitchen and did some finishing touches to the wall slots on the top floor, so Mr M. can put the plasterboards up without the electrical cables getting in the way. I also ran some errands, buying cable, staples for the staple gun, a satellite dish, mail-boxes, etc.

Saturday, December 29th
My dad and Siggi drove up from Birkenfeld and together they continued work on the water pipes. Today they successfully installed the outfall pipe and started installing the pipes to the solar panels. When we are finished we will have two solar panels on our roof to heat the water.
Yves, our electrician, has a middle ear infection and couldn't work today. Poor guy. He did however come by to give us some instructions. Christian and his dad carried up the plasterboards to the top floor. Mr M. worked like a maniac again today. This man doesn't eat, nor does he take a break. He actually puts up the 1250x2000mm (49x78") plasterboards by himself - unbelievable. He finished the two large rooms and did the part of the hallway that was already finished. He went home in the afternoon, because there was nothing else for him to do. Now we have to put up the remaining pipes and cables first, so he can finish the top floor.
Credits: frames from Simple Sets #26 by [ksharonk] available at twolittlepixels.com; staple from Stationary Plus 2 by [ksharonk]
Christan's brother, Frank, came by and helped me remove all the built-in curtain rails on our floor. I'm not a big fan of curtains and if it must be, we use curtain rods or preferably the hot IKEA curtain panels. We already have them in the bedroom and I hope we have some money left for the other windows. Frank got the first minor injury in our house while pulling off the rails. I went to get our first-aid kit but he didn't want his finger tended - men...
Credits: small frame from Simple Sets #26 by [ksharonk] available at twolittlepixels.com; large frame called framethanks was a gift from [ksharonk]; staple from Stationary Plus 2 by [ksharonk]
In the afternoon I started to remove the floor pavement in our kitchen with a hammer and chisel - what a pain, but I did finish half of the room till it got dark.
Credits: frame from Unadorned Freebie by [ksharonk]; staple from Stationary Plus 2 by [ksharonk]