Andy,

Nice to have friends who can loan ya' stuff like scaffolding. Handy sort of like the loaner backhoe you have.

I hear it doesn't make $ sense to do insulation. The insulation companies will install it for what we can buy it retail. I'm not sure about drywall, but the young gorillas can install more in a day than I can in a month. I did it in my last house, but I've got a time limit of sorts on my construction loan, so I'm foregoing the pleasure of hanging drywall this time. I'm sorta' cherry picking the parts I want to do - enough to have my fingerprints on the project and fell like it's my own. I'll run wire in the garage, but have the electrician do the house. I'm going to install the deck, deck and porch and eave soffiting, hardwood floors, tile, and finish trim, and we'll paint everything ourselves. Then we'll probably spend the next couple years landscaping.

Keep up the fun!

Sg