Basement - Part 1 Materials

Since we bought our house in May, Jon has been planning out how he would like to finish off our unfinished basement. This weekend we were able to start that project. Originally we planned to start working on the basement two weeks ago but due to some unfortunate circumstances (aka a dead truck) we were unable to start the project. Well on Saturday Jon was at Menards and he managed to get hooked up with a truck there. So we quickly got everything ready and gathered all the materials.

We managed to get everything in 2 trips… which was amazing because we bought a lot of stuff.

First load: 30 sheets of ½ in Sheet Rock and 60 2x4x8.  Jon unloaded pretty much all the sheet rock by himself while I unloaded the 2x4s. (seemed like a good deal to me)

Second Load: 25 sheets of 5/8s, 39 2x4x8, 2 2x4x10, 2 treated 2x4x10, 15 treated 2x4x8 and 25 sheets of insulation. Again Jon proved his superman strength on this load and unloaded all the basement board by himself (they were too heavy for me) while I unloaded some of everything else.

Since Saturday was a busy day for us and we had to hurry to get everything done so we could go hang out with some good friends of ours. We left the sheet rock on the main floor. So Sunday morning I spent my time organizing all the wood in the basement and making room for the sheet rock in the basement. Monday we moved the 5/8s to the basement and Wednesday we moved the 1/2 in board.

Here are some pictures of our stuff…