Sunday, October 26, 2008

Close to a bathroom










This weekend I worked on drywalling the bathroom - first I had to level out the wall with the window as it wasn't close to being level or plumb. My first attempt at drywalling isn't very good, I'm hoping the spackle will fill in all my mistakes! I also framed in what will be a little cabinet that will double as a shelf for the shower at the end of the tub.

Last weekend we worked on breaking off some remaining cement from the walls, and filling in the cracks, along will other cementing to our crumbling brick. John worked more on the our sink stand. And our wall where the chimney used to be is now all repaired.














Monday, October 13, 2008

More pictures!






Lights & Insulation & Much more





Updates: Our bathroom is now wired - working lights & outlets. We have also run the electric wire for 2 bedroom lights - to be connected to the panel soon. John is building a vanity stand for our oversized bathroom sink. Our helper has made some progress on rebuilding the bedroom wall. We also put up a new wall frame for one of the bedrooms as the other wall was mostly rotted. We have a new contractor who has actually been in (our other one left us for over 5 weeks without any work) laying the water lines, and getting ready to install our tub and toilet. We made a few good purchases at Lowe's this past weekend. Picked up an almost new refrigerator for $200 by bargaining on a clearance item. We purchased a lot of insulation as is was on a good sale, and we started to put some insulation up as well. The bedroom window has been removed, but we have already purchased 3 new windows for the windows in two bedrooms. We have also been busy ebaying for chandeliers - we have two on their way, we picked up our bedroom lights from ikea. We've also spent many hours on general clean-up - removing old wires, cleaning the basement, patching up the brick walls, etc. While our basement isn't yet dry we have our dehumidifier working around the clock to help dry things out.