Weekend of Sept 20th

I spent most of my time this weekend putting the bedroom floor back together, now that we have the 3rd joist in.

Weekend of September 20th

John spent most of the weekend running electric wire for the bathroom - we'll be connecting it to the panel today and hoping all goes well! As the pictures show the kitchen is now mostly framed.

We also layed new concrete on the sidewalk, probably our neighbors - but we are trying to seal everything up to prevent the water from reaching our basement. The plumbers did come on Saturday to pour some hydrolic cement around the drain and foundation wall. We'll just have to wait for another heavy rain storm to see what happens. Also take note of that blue box next to me in our soon to be bathroom! The electric is coming. We started to run the wire and we have the lights.....hopefully it will be working this weekend.

One joist in

We did get one joist in - we have to wait until the brick against the wall and up along the old chimney gets repaired and replaced before the other joist can go in. Luckily our help is doing a great job of removing the old chimney and repairing the brick.

Another weekend at the house

This weekend I moved our bathroom doorway, which intailed framing a new doorway as it had to move about two feet. We also began what may be a big project - putting in two new joists on the second floor. A lot of the flooring in that area was also rotted so we decided to cut the flooring back to the joist we are keeping. Somehow we managed to pull the old joists up onto the second floor and not let them fall down onto our new kitchen subfloor, windows & door. I'm still unsure how but I guess that's why our bodies ache. We started to repair the brick work near the joists and cut one of the boards to size. Hopefully we'll get in this week to finish the joists. We've also made the call to hire another set of hands to speed up the work in hopes of moving in by the end of the month.

Tropical storm Hanna also brought water into our basement! The water was actually coming in right through our new main drain, and the new main water line is now whistling (a leak somewhere else behind our foundation?) Needless to say the plumber is coming Monday, of course he couldn't come earlier, so we have large clear photos for him!

Basement Windows Continued

Basement Windows

We spent most of Labor Day weekend exhausting ourselves with the house but we did acheive quite a bit. We picked up more lumber from Lowes, which resulted in renting the Lowes truck to get it home. We assembled one of our basement windows to allow for space for the dryer vent. After countless trips to Lowes and a few arguments we managed to get both basement windows installed. Of course they need some finish work but they are a huge improvement. We took advantage of discounts to purchase our kitchen floor. John also worked on patching up some of our crumbling brick. And with some creativity we managed to dispose of a good amount of trash.

August

During the past month we accomplished a lot of clean up, including another huge pile of trash hauled away. We worked on gutting a few more walls. Laid the backer board (to prepare for tile) for the bathroom floor. We also had a plumber come who put in all the water/sewage drains and put a new water main from the street to the house - which gives us running water! We've purchased a tankless water heater & a very efficient furnace, both should be installed within the next week along with the water lines throughout the house and the duct work for the heating system.