{"id":674,"date":"2012-05-30T18:47:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T01:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggweb.com\/?p=674"},"modified":"2012-05-30T18:54:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T01:54:12","slug":"getting-close-to-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Getting Close to Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 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).\u00a0 We also have some fix up stuff to do.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 He had to cup up the old railing from inside as well so it would fit easily into the dumpster.\u00a0 So much to do!<\/p>\n

First some pictures of what we have been living with.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It doesn’t show here that I also had to step over it to get into my room.\u00a0 Also here are some pictures of how we are living right now – not such a pretty picture.<\/p>\n

\"Obstacle<\/a> \"How <\/a>\"Our<\/a><\/p>\n

Dad’s wall is beautiful – it is amazing what a careful and knowledgeable person can accomplish.\u00a0 It is so smooth and even – a masterpiece for sure.<\/p>\n

\"11b-wall-repair-project.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So on Wednesday, May 23rd our tile was put in and we really like it a lot.\u00a0 The tile guys really liked it as well.<\/p>\n

\"The <\/a>\"Closeup\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Thought you might also like to see what our attic looks like now – almost empty!!!!<\/p>\n

\"The <\/a>\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

So on Tuesday of this week the railing guy came and started our railing.\u00a0 It was a more involved process than he expected.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 So he had to cut back the wall board.\u00a0 The floor is not perfect but is better than we had hoped.<\/p>\n

\"New <\/a>\"Another<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0As 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Pretty amazing!<\/p>\n

\"Our <\/a>\"Carpet<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0So the deck is now finished and it is much nicer than we ever imagined.<\/p>\n

\"Our <\/a>\"New<\/a><\/p>\n

Today when I came home this is the new railing that greeted me.\u00a0 Notice the new hand railing to the basement as well.<\/p>\n

\"Our <\/a>\"Our<\/a><\/p>\n

So the outside of our house is almost all finished – just a few last details.\u00a0 Tomorrow he will finish up inside and perhaps have a little to do on Friday.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Wish we could have done some of this sooner but it is almost done now.<\/p>\n

\"North <\/a>\"Our<\/a><\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-intro","category-cromwell-improvements","category-our-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momsblog.morgeneggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}