Wednesday, March 4, 2009

House update

I've been a bad blogger of late, and for that I apologize. Let me give you the SportsCenter edition of what's been going on at the house. I think the last time I posted something about the house we had a hole in the side wall. We still don't have a slab in the guest bedroom. That got postponed because of city politics. Supposedly it's happening Thursday. Yes, I think I'll write a book (because I can't make this shit up).

However, since then, we knocked down the two faux walls on either side of the fireplace, and replaced that side of the house with plywood. We'll eventually put up Hardie. Mom and I - by ourselves - scraped up the tile in the kitchen and bathroom. It was a good way to release some frustrations, but talk about gross. It was still wet and very moldy. Yes, my hands still hurt.

The new windows are in the front of the house, including a completely new window in the living room, so we now have 4 windows there. The other windows are in the garage waiting for the framing to be completed so they can be installed. The hole has been cut in the bedroom for the french doors. I'm very excited about this. They were ordered today. The rest of the side of the house where the "original" hole was is tore out because there was some pretty good damage to the boards there, so they had to re-frame the wall in the office. For those of you that know our house, basically the whole side of the house where the office and guest bedroom are is completely open at this point. We were trying not to have to re-side the whole house, but at this point it looks like we're going to have to.

Plumbing went in today. When I left the house tonight I actually locked the front door, and then had to laugh at myself.

That's about it. I'm going out of town tomorrow, so I've instructed Jay to take some pictures of the slab. We'll see if he pulls through for us. For now, here are some pics of the recent action. Enjoy!


The new fancy, expensive plumbing. Can you guess which is the hot and which is the cold???

New windows!

New windows from the inside. Notice the totally new window to the right...

Mom and I ripped up tile until we could no longer feel our hands and many other parts of our body.

This sight freaked Jay out a little.

No more cinder block walls!

We apparently like making holes in the sides of our house...

It was kinda fun tearing down the walls.

This was right after we got the cinder block out.
Buh-bye!

Ready to pour the slab.




1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Not to mention that Dad baged and hauled all the tile out.

Dad...