The work continues

We're finding all of this renovating can get discouraging at times but I push that out of my head. I just keep working and eventually the place will be done. The drywall will be getting taped tuesday, so hopefully after a week we'll be ready to prime and paint., and then it's on to flooring and finishing the bathrooms and kitchen. Then hopefully around that time, the new windows will be in...and I can start installing them, and then I can put my new/used furnace in and then

I'll start putting up door jambs and by that time I'll have to blow insulation in the attic and while I'm up there run venting for the bathrooms and then do the trimwork...man do I hate trim and then I'll have to rip out the old tile in the front entryway and redo that and at the same time I may as well do the tiling in the bathroom and then before winter I have to repair the overhang in the back as it's not supported well enough...and I guess I should dig down around the corner of the back of thehouse and fix the leak that we have in our basement...and actually I forgot...part of the chimney has to get rebuilt too because frost is getting in the bricks and blowing them apart...then I have to cut an

access in the garage ceiling so I can get

up and insulate the ceiling in the

entryway....and yeah,...a few other things

before I can finally get to the

basement

Here we go!

Finally some time to put some pictures up of our project. While we knew more or less what we were in for when we bought the house, I think suprises always await once you start ripping into a task like this.
The previous owner was an unqualified do-it yourselfer who, good thing for us...didn't build the house himself. The 3 most major issues with the place are floors, ceilings and windows. Floors and windows, while costly enough are easily replaced. The ceilings were another matter. The house has 4 skylights which all leaked at one point because ...you got it...the owner put them in himself. He even put one right smack dab on top of a truss...you know..those thingys
that hold your roof up. And you can't have a truss in the middle of your skylight of course...so he cut the truss out. Top and bottom...gone. So...I jacked everything up and framed the truss back in around the skylight....which wasn't such a big deal but took up valuable time. Anyways...the skylights were the cause of major water damage to the ceiling drywall so out came the ceilings and all the framing around the skylights. The whole ceiling in the place came down except for the master bedroom...which looking back on it should have come down as well...but its too late for that.
Since your ripping drywall out anyways...it's often convenient to rip
damaged wall board off as well...and
sometimes to take the whole wall out.
This is exactly what happened in our kitchen/dining/living area which is now a nice open concept space. Both bathrooms were gutted and refloored and drywalled. And the bathroom off the master bedroom is converted into a combination walk-in closet and ensuite. A rats nest of electrical and plumbing had to be sorted out and thats all just on the main floor. The basement was rented out as a seperate apartment and while being a nice big high basement....has issues all it's own and won't be gotten to until we're properly moved in, which incidentally needs to happen in three weeks time.