Demolition Duty

A few weeks ago my parents came into town for a few days, and along with a few brother-in-laws, we transformed our garage into a new school room for the kids. Below are some pics of the progress that we made throughout the weekend.

The old garage was just the studs, so we re-routed cold and hot water pipes through our walls along with enough electrical for 8 new sets of plugs and a 240 line for the dryer.

We installed a new wall just where the garage door tracks end so that we could still have some garage storage. We then moved the washer and dryer and also laid a 70 ft drainline for the washer around the house.
We then insulated and sheet rocked the whole garage. This was by far, the biggest home improvement project I have ever taken on. I was lucky to have a Dad with every imaginable tool available, but we were still always in need of a tape measure, even though when we cleaned up we found about 8 different ones!

We also had lots of little hands available to do the hard work like getting us more Dr. Pepper and beer!
And lots of strong men to help as well....
Peter became fascinated with the chalk line and how it worked, and he became the official chalk line operator, and to commemorate this honorable appointment, we gladly chalked some racing stripes on his face!