A long time coming

Wow! It's been forever since I posted...basically because I just haven't had the time. So let's see what all have we done?!?! A lot.

Since our last post we have: Tore up the existing kitchen floor to prepare it for new sub flooring, laid new sub flooring in the bathroom, reframed the closet and walls in the bathroom, added a front closet in the living room, reframed the study, added a closet to the study, added a new window to the study, tied rafters and ceiling together, jacked the house up and replaced the base board and box sill along the West side of the house, tore off siding from the west and east side of the house, dug the extension, had concrete poured for the footers, laid block for the new extension, got our water turned on, hooked up septic to the city, ordered a new kitchen window and replaced the side door with a brand new door. That should bring you up to speed with what's going on.

We hope to get the new kitchen window in this week, along with the sub flooring. Other than that I'm not sure what's on my dad's punch list. We just show up and go with the flow.

Now for pictures.

Extended Weekend

Over the Holiday/Extended weekend we spent two days working on the house. It was nice to work two days in a row on it.

Sunday we began by mowing the lawn and whacking down weeds. Dad began chopping down one of the trees in the front yard and some other smaller trees and shrubs around the property. After that we spent most of the time inside. George and Dad finished replacing the main support beam under the floor. Once that was completed we move onto a vertical beam that needed replaced.  By 9 in the evening we had the new beam in...it was kinda scary to jack the house up and hear all the creaks and squeaks the made.

On Sunday we removed all the old damaged boards from the cinder block foundation to right above the front windows. We replaced it with new special treated wood and put in our new door. George's parents came down as well but there wasn't a lot for them to do so they basically just sat around, it was still nice to see them but we felt bad as they wanted to really help us and work.

We have the front right corner (if your looking at the house from the front) to jack up as well as replacing the foundation boards, then we're onto tying up the rafters in the back end of the house. Once we do that I think we're ripping up the entire old wood floor, replacing some cross flooring joists then putting down new sub flooring.  I hope we can have this done in another few weeks.  

We still haven't heard back from any of the people we called about digging our foundation for the new extension...frustrating.