Got up at 6am today when Lindsay left for the fitness center and then to head back to Dubuque for a baby shower and got rolling with my dad on the basement again. About 8:45 Rob came over and we hammered away until noon with only minor blood lost by both Rob and I from splinters…shocking my dad was perfectly fine…you can tell who the computer geeks are. Err I mean awesomest cool people in the world are!!
Some pics of todays work for ya but not much typing cause I am tired as hell and ready for bed.
Home Improvement, Home Life
Dad, Finishing basement, Framing, Rob
So after trekking down 180 2×4x10’s and over 40 other pieces of wood into the basement f-day had arrive (framing day for all you out there that don’t understand my odd languages). My dad got to my house from Dubuque today about 10am and was ready to rock right away…I unfortunately had to finish up some meetings at work to cap off the crap week that was but was on my way home at a little past noon.
I had been itching to try out my new air powered framing nailer and oh boy it didn’t disappoint. Anyone who tells you that framing by hand is faster is purely full of it. My dad which has been doing this for 40+ years now and is a staunch old school carpenter openly admitted we did just the bedroom two times faster than if we had done it by hand. I think it was way faster than that. 
We made tons of progress and got all the basement bedrooms framed in and are set and ready to roll framing in the rest of the exterior walls, bathroom and hallways. Also going to pick up the one piece shower/bath combo from Home Depot and get that into the bathroom before we start framing that baby in. Figure for 300 bucks its better to be ahead of the game and have it in the house…of course fighting that -15 degree weather tomorrow hauling it down into the backyard will be lots of fun! Here are some pictures from yesterday and today.
John Stecher's basement hallway day 1
John Stecher's basement family room day 1
John Stecher's basement hallway day 2
John Stecher's basement bedrooms day 2
Home Improvement, Home Life
Dad, Finishing basement, Framing, Framing Nailer
