It's slow, but it's progress

So, it's been a while since my last update on the house. About two months, to be exact.

There aren't any "major" chunks of progress to be reported, but we are making progress, slow and sure. Right now, we're down to the "little jobs" that need to be done before we can start putting it all back together.

Let's see...what has been done in the mean time?

• All the insulation is out (Izzy had that itchy job), and thus has confirmed we have 2x6 walls up stairs. Something that is rather rare for a house built forty years ago.


• The downstairs got a serious cleanup. The cinder block walls were scraped with a steel brush (Robb had that fun job), and dirt and sheet rock dust was swept and vacuumed.


• The rotted section of the master bedroom floor was replaced (Thanks Bill Wood!)


• Removed some old coax and phone cable from the outside of the house. Will be replaced with all new runs to a network/wiring closet in the new office.


• The closet doors in the master bedroom and kids room were widened to accommodate sliding mirror doors instead of the 32 inch interior doors they had.


• The wall between the old family room and old guest room was removed. Its base plate was so rotten that it split in half when torqued during the removal process. And the rest of it was rotted to some degree. A new wall is going back up a few feet over to make re-size a couple rooms.


• The wall between the laundry room and old family room was removed because it hadn't been installed correctly in the first place. It will go back up soon.

Stay posted...some major progress is coming soon, we hope. Furring and insulation is planned for the next few weeks. And then sheet rock after that.