Well we are really beginning to see the end – at least for the contractor – there is still a lot of work ahead for us – a great deal of painting (living room, dining room, hall and stairs walls and all the trim throughout the upstairs), staining our new railing, and general put it all back together stuff. Before we can paint Dad has to lift the heater coil/pipe up so the carpet will fit under it (the carpet is our almost last step in all this – the front porch fix up being the very last). We also have some fix up stuff to do. Dad has been busy early mornings and evenings finishing the install of our new hose for our water softener and cleaning up the garage and getting the front porch railing ready to go into the dumpster before it leaves on Friday. He had to cup up the old railing from inside as well so it would fit easily into the dumpster. So much to do!
First some pictures of what we have been living with. When Dad finished with the attic we brought down all the wood he had been using to lay on while he installed the baffles – it sat in the hallway for several days. One night I came out of our room to get a drink and jammed my toe (the one I broke last summer) into the wood – I was more careful after that. It doesn’t show here that I also had to step over it to get into my room. Also here are some pictures of how we are living right now – not such a pretty picture.
Dad’s wall is beautiful – it is amazing what a careful and knowledgeable person can accomplish. It is so smooth and even – a masterpiece for sure.
So on Wednesday, May 23rd our tile was put in and we really like it a lot. The tile guys really liked it as well.
Thought you might also like to see what our attic looks like now – almost empty!!!!
So on Tuesday of this week the railing guy came and started our railing. It was a more involved process than he expected. He had to find out why there was a bump – turns out the wood shrank over time but the wallboard supporting the edges did not. So he had to cut back the wall board. The floor is not perfect but is better than we had hoped.
As you know Dad has the title of frugal king and it shows in our dumpster – you cannot even imagine how much stuff he has stuffed into crevices in the dumpster to get as much of our old junk in as possible. To get our carpet in and to save on the charge of having the carpet guy take it out and haul it away, Dad measured the dumpster and cut the carpet into the exact size needed to be able to stack it in the dumpster – so that stack is all the carpet from our house except a few small pieces he saved to save his knees as he works on the heater coils. Pretty amazing!
So the deck is now finished and it is much nicer than we ever imagined.
Today when I came home this is the new railing that greeted me. Notice the new hand railing to the basement as well.
So the outside of our house is almost all finished – just a few last details. Tomorrow he will finish up inside and perhaps have a little to do on Friday. We are truly happy with all that we have had done – it is now like a whole new house compared to what we moved into 26 years ago. Wish we could have done some of this sooner but it is almost done now.
