Final Blueprints
Month: August 2016
Unhappy Finding
Steven removed the siding from the porch ‘railing’. I removed the wood lattice from below the porch. We then discovered that there was a lot of rot in the headers and ceiling.
Two Projects in One Week
The city has been urging us to remove the old shed. We wanted to remove it also but was using it to store windows. We cleaned out the kitchen porch, removed a dividing wall and moved the windows there. We tried for several days to find someone to take it. There were many interested by most had no way to remove it so we decided to just demolish it.
What an improvement!
Clearing the Porch
We had been using the front open porch as a storage area.
It was time to clean it up. First task was organizing the maple flooring for an upstairs bedroom.
Steven had rescued it from a gymnasium many years before.
We also organized the free railing materials we had gotten from a ReUse store.
Airlock Begone
At sometime an exterior door had been added to the living room and an airlock built in front of it on the porch. We wanted to remove the airlock and change the door into a large window which we had picked up from a house being remodeled.
The window was two double hung sections, bronze metal on the outside and wood on the inside.
We carefully removed the siding from the airlock so we could use it later (below the siding is maple flooring.)
Front wall of the airlock removed and the side wall is in process of being removed.
We will use this door in the kitchen porch as the exterior door.
The airlock, door and tile on the floor are gone.
We still need to remove the siding to the right.
Gutting goes on
We turned our attention to the first floor and removed plaster and lathe. We have filled 5 Bagsters so far.
We applied for our building permit – it took over 4 weeks for approved. Many blueprint changes in the last weeks. We have removed all the tile on the wood flooring. We will have natural wood floors throughout the first floor (only exception is the bathroom). It has been dirty itchy work.
