finishing our basement

We've decided to finish our unfinished basement. Boy is it ever EXPENSIVE! We had entertained the notion that I would scrounge up some volunteers and try to finish it ourselves, save a bit o' money and have it be done when it gets done. But the idea of spending much of what little 'free' time I had was not very appealing. Not to mention that it might take me a LOOOONNNGGGGGG time to finish, and that I might not do a good job.

So we hired a contractor to do the job in a fraction of a fraction of the time -- hooray! They started on July 12 and quoted us completion in about 6 weeks. I know that they're not going to get it done in 6 weeks, but a couple of extended weeks aren't gonna matter much to us.

So here are 2 pics of what's going on down there (click on images to see larger image with descriptions):



More pics to come...