Outside electrical work and ceiling drywall

Usually by Friday the work week is done and odds and ends are getting finished up before the weekend.  Well, last Friday seemed to be more of a gearing up day for plenty of weekend work!  Outside we have overhead power lines to the house along with a light pole that will be in our driveway area, so we are converting it to underground electricity and removing the light pole.  Spencer Roth started the work by digging a trench to bury the pipes that will hold the wires.  Now OGE(our local electric company) can come in and do their end of the job and then they will remove all of the overhead wires and the light pole.

 These steps will be moved over next to the house because the garage will be right where they currently are. There will be a walk way along the side of the house between the garage and the house and these will be the steps to access that walk way.

 Here is some of the finished electrical work.  There are also some pipes running up the side of the house in the trench that was dug there.


Also on Friday they were getting a lot of the stones and debris from the demolition and filling the cistern with it.  If you remember from an earlier post, we searched the bottom of the cistern and now plan on filling it in with dirt, rocks, etc. and then closing it up for good.  These pictures show a huge piece of concrete, which use to be the top of the cistern cap, carried and dropped into the cistern.  It made a big splash because the hole is filled up with rain water.  I will be so glad when that project is over and that thing is gone for good!

Then, over the weekend, the sheet rock crew came in and really got some work done!  Most the of the walls in the house will be covered with drywall because of the condition of the plaster.  It is too costly, time consuming, and will not benefit us to repair the plaster.  It is damaged in just about every room.  So we are covering all of the walls with drywall.  One upstairs bedroom and then the game room and living room on the main level got a lot of attention and it was a nice surprise to see this morning!

 

These are the pictures from the upstairs bedroom. 

 

 These 2 pictures are in the living room on the mail level.  The ceiling height is still great and it's coming along so quickly!

This is in the game room on the mail level.  I know these ceiling pics probably aren't that interesting, haha, but it is great progress and one step closer to our family living under those ceilings!