Getting to the middle.

In this post, we are sort of in the middle stages of the rebuild, the demolition and main carpentry are winding down, the plumber and electrician are in the house, as well as the AC guy starts in a day or so.

We filled up three of these so far, just had another empty one placed.

Got the garage slab poured as well. 

My good helper!

Annnnnnnd, cuteness for the win!

Better late than never.

Wowza, it has been far far too long since the last post.

In the meantime, we've made quite a bit of progress, and yet somehow feel so far behind.


This was our little visitor a couple days ago:

 Harv has claimed his chair:

Teaser for tomorrow's post:

Our ~350 Sq. ft. abode

Did I tell you all how much we like living small?  For real, it's not that bad, and as far as i know most people outside of America do it this way with even larger families.

This was what is to become our bedroom after cleaning out the cobwebs and cleaning the floors walls and ceiling.

This is Eric Todd, my old roomate, the guy who got me into cycling, and all-round good friend from the Army.  He was kind enough to take a whole week of work for me to fly him out here to help me make a place to live.

Add a window A/C unit, some paint, tile and voila!

Gross Bathroom we ended up totally taking even the floor out of.

Really gross rat's nest of foil wrappers and turds.

 After a few hours demolishing it looks like this.

 The next day we have this,

and, after a little of this, (that in my hand is a takeaway cup of Black IPA from the pub down the block, and it was dee-lish)

we end up with this!

Kitchen before,

during,

and after.

And, more pics!

                                  
Exterior view

Backyard, and our fine two-room quarters!

Fireplace, what you are looking at tho, is actually a facade added at some point after original construction and will be demolished to unveil the original.

Nice stairwell.

The kitchen walls you see were the outer, 5th layer.  Pretty gross underneath too.

This is where the magic will happen. (insert inappropriate smiley here)

Love that paneling.  For real tho the cracked plaster underneath is much more appealing.

Annnnnd, the three cousins for the cuteness win.

PHOTO DUMP!!!

Alrighty peeps, the camera cord just arrived, and so I took a break from plaster removal to upload the best of the best!


Where to start??


I guess we'll begin with pics the day we moved in:

All the rooms have fireplaces like this one, except they each have a different tile.  when they're cleaned off i'll go around and take pics of each tile, a few are painted over.

The drop-down ceiling.  so, instead of repairing the gaping 6ft hole in the ceiling, a drop down is even easier!!! SHEESH.

The vinyl.  Yes, this house is like an ONION.  Many, many layers of vinyl.  Record so far is six layers in this room.  Most have 4-5 layers, some 1-2 and one of the rooms had none.

Two of the rooms had some wood paneling on top of the plaster.  Most of the upstairs rooms and one of the down have 1/4" drywall right on top of the plaster.  Of what I've pulled down so far, they didn't even clean it off before putting the next layer on.

 More of the layers.  The lowest layer was old newspaper.

Really old, like 1937 old.  Cool stuff.  Even the comics were color back then!

Layers.  LAYERS.