Our Home Experience

Well I didn’t get the time to post like i wanted to. There has been alot of hectic stuff going on as many can imagine with an old house.

Lets start with the bedroom, we finished demolishing the walls, got insulation up and pretty much finished the Sheetrock. I say pretty much because we are waiting on a few pieces because one windows leaks a little so after we get our windows in we will fix the opening and put up the 2 last pieces. We have the taping done and most of the sanding, I think there is one more coat on the walls and we will be done. I have some pics of the progress.

I also did the electrical outlets for the bedroom and they all worked the first time

This has been the fun part, now for the other side of owning a home. Within the first few days of living here our shower started draining slowly and after a few days it did not drain at all. After flushing the toilet one day it backed up in the tub. Our first thoughts were that the pipe going to the road was broken or had issues with roots from the tree out front. As it turned out it was actually a pipe inside, the main sewer pipe and was fixed but not after costing $300.00

The second major problem we have had is the other day we decided to try and change out our shower fixtures in the bathroom downstairs because of low water pressure. We had trouble unscrewing some of the pipes so we left it for another day and decided to use the upstairs shower instead for a bit. Well after a few minutes in the shower Heather comes running upstairs telling me to shut the water off. There was water raining down from our kitchen light. So in just a towel I ran downstairs to turn off the breaker to the kitchen and water to the upstairs. I may have left out that the water was off going upstairs because we still had a small drip in the pipe in the basement. The plumber came the next night and seemed to have fixed it for now, he still has a few loose ends to fix before the whole project is done but we are in pretty good shape right now. I also have another plumber coming to finish changing out the fixtures in the downstairs bathroom tonight.

Well I know I just put alot of info in this one long post but I had to get it out of my head before it all became a blur. There is still more I need to post about like my basement light project but I will save that for next post and try to keep up with updating. Hopefully it wont get too crazy around here.

Well if anyone has been wondering why I haven’t posted in a while its because we just had Internet hooked up today. I will be posting pics soon, probably tomorrow. We have had a number of new things happen since my last post. Some of the highlights include the bedroom being gutted and insulated as well as sheetrock going up. The outside of the house is painted, plumbing mostly done (more update on that tomorrow.) We have also had some interesting problems.

Its about bed time, just wanted to get a quick update and let everyone know I haven’t given up on this yet

Well alot has been going on since my last post. I am now on vacation for 9 days today was day 1 and I started tearing down the walls in the bedroom.

The yellow color is horsehair plaster I believe and behind it was plaster with wooden slats, not sure of the official term. Along with getting that off, which was fairly easy, we tried to save the molding. It was fairly easy except for around the closet because the closet was added after everything was put up. So the molding and paneling both extended into the closet behind the studs which means it had to be broken off to be removed.

I started tearing up the floor and got a nice little supprise, lets see if you see it too.

If you don’t see it take another look, under the crap floor is hardwood flooring Its going to be a pain to get it all up but it should be worth the effort when I do it. The flooring is the same in the kitchen so cross your fingers that we have hardwood in the kitchen and dining room also.

OK, so back to the walls. I started to tear down the walls in preparation for insulation and eventually sheet rock.

Still have the wall on the left to do but was a pretty productive day in all. I will be posting more pics of what my vacation entails. We are planning on trying to finish up the painting tomorrow. We have our painter guy who lives down the road come and spray on the second coat of paint. We will still have to go behind him and paint close to the windows where the sprayer cant reach but he said he should be able to spray the whole house in 1 day. We also have some trim work to do around the windows.

It will be a very busy day tomorrow, I also want to work more on the bedroom tomorrow night after painting but we will see how that goes.

As I said in the last post, I wanted to do a better update on what we have done and what is going on with the house. We have been working on painting the outside since we closed, we had to scrape alot of the paint first. Yesterday was one of the first big painting days, we also painted last Sunday but most of the day was scraping. Yesterday we were able to get the first coat on a few walls including the wall facing the driveway, the back wall of the living room (the wall with the big windows), and we got started on the wall facing the neighbors. Heather has done some of the trim work, including around the windows. The light brown trim in the windows is the first coat, however it was too light for us so we had it darkened for the second coat which you  may be able to see in some of the pics on the trim of the roof.

Today I will be painting some more of the wall facing the neighbors and hopefully I can get some more trim work done around some of the windows. Jamie and John may be coming to the house today and I hope he can deal better with heights then I can and he could do the second story trim.

On another note, we have running water now as well as a flushing toilet The boiler was delivered Tuesday and is already sitting in place and soon to be up and running. The plumber is coming again today and I will probably have him work on the baseboard in the living room so we we can know that room is done and able to move stuff into and then have him just work on hot water. After that its just a matter of a shower working before we can really move in. I will most likely start moving some stuff in as early as tomorrow after work.

Well we had started painting the trim a few days ago and a little on the house as of Sunday but today was one of the big painting days and I remembered to get pics of the progress.

Before the Fun started

After

We were able to get this wall done except for the trim around the windows.

Here are a few more pics of work we did today.

Back of the Living room

Side facing neighbors

I will post again with more more updates, but tonight I have to head to bed. Its been a long day.