Putting Back Together

After weeks of tearing up we are FINALLY to a point where we are putting things in!










Construction Zone

Casings are up and painting started. You can see how far I can reach.

Doors on every surface for paint

Install.





hardwood delivered

 

Good Bye and Good Riddance!

So long cheap Pergo!  We were going to try and live with it a while and re-do when we were swimming in cash................................
....................................but, we decided to rip it out and install the hardwood to match the rest of the house while the mess was made. Frankly, we will never be swimming in cash OR willing to make the mess again. So Mark pulled up the Pergo and found 2 layers of subfloor that needs to be removed. (I think we gained several inches of ceiling height by removing flooring)

It pushes our move in date back, but I think we will be so happy that we did it!

The blue tape is my vision for the board and batten trim in the dining room with a little "mud" area.

Progress report- tile is laid in the bathrooms and entry, wallpaper removed, recessed can lights in, staples and tack strip gone, and prep for paint starts this afternoon.

What's that smell???

After ripping out just about everything in the basement, we thought the smells would go with it.  There was a musty smell that wouldn't go away. There was some standing water in the drain of the furnace room. We had the drain cleaned. Still smelly.

There was some flooring in Kyle's room that I thought was the same cheap Pergo as the kitchen. Turns out it was wood look VINYL. After some investigating, we figured out that the water heater in the furnace room next door had leaked-gone thru the wall (moldy under the baseboards) and underneath the vinyl-faux wood.  When we started pulling it up, we found the source  of the smellies. What kind of diseases do you get from breathing in mold spores????? 

Progress

Five dumpsters filled. Two more should do it.

Houston- We have a problem...

You know the show "Love it or List It?  Mark hates Hillary  because she always tells the homeowners that "We've found a problem...an expensive problem....and.....we can't do everything on your list".  That's what we are feeling this week.

We decided to re-tile the bathrooms upstairs because, like I've said before, the litterbox was optional for kitties, AND cat pee does seep thru tile and grout. So now the smell will really be gone. In pulling up the tile we found 2 layers of cement board and 2 sub floors. After that was gone, we found.....

                                                   Luckily plywood is not that expensive.