Rob built door jambs and hung the dining room doors and the utility closet door this past Sunday.

One more sanding session and we will be ready for primer & paint in the dining room.

I got the lower rear wall of the house painted, it was too hot to walk on the new asphalt shingles and do the upper rear wall. I also started the south facing side.

I tore though all 5 gallons of paint in three days, so I'll have to drop another $125 on another pail of paint.  I'm also thinking about renting a platform lift or a telescopic bucket type lift to get to the higher areas on the sides.  Its approx. thirty feet to the gables of the 3rd floor and my extension ladder just ain't cutting it!

I also started painting the exterior of the house this week.  You'll notice I said "I started", that's because my painter pulled a "no-show" for the sixth week in a row.
      Screw that!  I bought a cheap harbor freight airless paint sprayer and 5 gallons of  Glidden Pacific Blue exterior paint.   Yeah I got some overspray on some of the trim, but that's easy to touch up.
       It cost me $300 for the paint & sprayer and I have the entire front done already and half of the north side.  That beats paying $2700  for  a guy to do it.

The drywall is done in the dining room and the hallway.

       The wiring is done also. All new romex, new outlets, and new switches .  The dining room chandelier lit up for the first time since I bought the place!

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Sheetrock on the hallway side is done. Wiring inside the new wall is nearly finished also.  We need to add a two studs in the wall to create a door jamb for the Dutch door at the end of the hallway, then the inside of the wall can be drywalled.

Short day this past Sunday, but me and Rob had other plans.  We finished the subfloors and finished the wall between the dining room and the hall including the doorway/header.

We also got the sheetrock in and hung a few in the hallway.
I'll take photos next week when we get the mud & tape on it.

This weekend Rob and I finished the subfloor except for 2 pieces that need custom fitting around the cast iron radiator pipes, and we completed the dining room wall except for the header over the doorway.

We then sprayed 5 gallons of mold/mildew inhibiting primer on all the new construction to protect it.  We sprayed in the basement as well as the first floor.  As there is no functioning HVAC in the house yet, it gets quite hot & sticky in the summer months.  So we thought it would be best to err on the side of caution.

In the basement:

In the dining room:

In the hallway:

Check out this before(2016) and after shot:

I'm pretty sure that we're ready for drywall now.