Week 7

This week we really focused on the 2nd floor. We weren’t really supposed to be doing this work right now, but we are waiting for the contractor to finish the 3rd floor and we are excited to move on. We removed that icky subfloor that was under the even ickier carpet. We have an awesome friend (Jason) who is willing to help us. He came over Saturday and installed the new subfloor with Geoff in record time. Hurray for no more icky floor! It smells better already!

We also got a new roof and though unexpected, we are happy to have the roof stop leaking. Now we continue on with the 3rd floor without worry of it getting wet! The drywall can now be installed. The electrician came and started with all of the wiring while there is no drywall.

While filling the dumpster (#3), I meet the cute neighborhood bunny who is very excited about our remodeling (or at least our grass).

Week 6

Week 6

Since we have finished the 3rd floor bathroom, the 3rd floor is now pretty much in our contractor’s hands. This means we can focus on other areas of the house much earlier than expected. We started with the 2nd floor where there was some water damage. It turns out there was much more damage than we thought… so now we get to replace a large chunk of our exterior wall. You can even see our ugly blue siding from the inside now! On the bright side, we are getting French doors to replace the exterior door that goes out to the deck on the second floor. This will look so much better than having a steel exterior door in master closet/bathroom area.

Being that it has been so nice outside that the snow could finally melt, I have been noticing just how much work we have outside. I started by removing the rotting wood fence and I think it looks much better now. It also appears that we will be getting new siding much earlier than anticipated. Now we just have to pick a color and soon our house will be pretty on the outside!
In other news, we FINALLY got a dumpster! Our garage and most of the house are now clear of debris. Only one problem – it’s full already and we need another one!

Week 5

Week 5 started out with some excitement as we learned that the beam holding up our roof was rotten all the way through. This brought the work to a halt as our contractor built a temporary wall to hold up our roof while we order the new beam. While we were already planning on ordering a new beam, we did not expect things to be quite this bad. Along with the beam, we are going to need about half of our roof replaced. This was unexpected as the roof was replaced about a year before we bought the house. Clearly they didn't do such a good job.

Even with this happening, we managed to get the third floor bedroom layout figured out - and got to knock some more walls out! We also made some significant progress on our bathroom.
I have to admit that we were pretty lazy this weekend.