Week 18

Gabe got his fireman job !! He has been in and out getting things sorted out for that. Very exciting for him, but my house isn't finished!  Haha, Will assures me that he has built many houses without Gabe.

The construction heater that I have been using in my room has gone on the fritz, and I pretty much have had no heat for about 4 days. It is February and still COLD!  Grrrr.  Turns out the trouble wasn't with the heater but the breaker.  Anna replaced it and now I have lovely heat blasting, thank you.

We passed an electrical inspection for my floor this week and Anna has some of the potlights going upstairs and she is working on the roughin on Linda's floor. 

Week 17

My new tub has been placed in the bathroom, getting ready for the plumbing rough-in.

Week 17

Linda has started to wire the house for internet, tv, phone and alarm.  I help, but not sure if I am any help. This is where the hub of all the business will be, in the same area where the water tank and furnace is.

Week 17g

Some updated pictures of the back of the house.

Week 17

Electrical rough in on my floor still going on. They are pulling cable from the main panel in the basement up to my floor. Nice and neat and tidy, I like it.

Week 17

Yoga position of the week. 

Week 17

Anybody know what this is?

Week 17

There we are.  As always, more pics in the gallery...

Week 17

And since below the window was rotten, and above the window was rotten, so it goes the whole window is rotten. duh!

The last picture is of under the window sill. Gross according to Gabe, which is kind of funny for someone who wants to be a fireman.

Week 17

I have decided to change this to a weekly format, it seems to suit the type of work that is getting done these days.  It was getting tiresome keeping track of the days, so we'll see how this goes.

We have had some discussion with Will around the bad design of the bay window in the front of the house.  Even though the leak is contained, it will no doubt happen again in the future and Will has come up with a design solution. Now, I cannot picture it, but I trust Will that it will look good so we have decided to repair the whole thing now and hold off on the new water tank. We can replace that anytime, but since everything is open, far easier to do the bay window at this time. I know there is a little part of Will deep down that is really satisfied about this decision, much like the decision to move the stairs over. As you can see in the pics, it is rotten above the window much as it was below.

Week 16 - Weekend

End of an era, the cat-a-ramp has finally been taken down.
Spent most of the weekend loading up the bin, have had more than enough of that.

Week 16 - Day 75

Friday

The rough in for the new electrical panel on my floor and more pot lights.

I have a dream

- of cooking without my coat and touque on
- of not taking a shower in the dark
- of finding stuff
- of not having a layer of grime over everything I own.
- of not sitting on an ice cold toilet seat
- of having fabulous dinner parties, fancy cocktails, appies and sparkling conversation
- of having gourmet meals appearing magically out of my kitchen
- being decluttered and organized
- of warm feet

Week 16 - Day 75

Friday
Finished, inside and outside.

Week 16 - Day 75

Friday

There it is, the rotten bits under the bay window are gone. You can see Dennis in the yard beyond, who was kind enough to take away all the brick that had been piled up in the front yard. 

Old wasps' nest found when they took apart the bay window. Lots of those in this old house.

Week 16 - Day 74

Thursday

I was fairly skeptical about this doohickey. It is meant to catch the water at this point and direct it to the gutter. What do you know? It does work and quite nicely, too.  I guess it is the way it is done.

Week 16 - Day 74

Thursday

I have ignored this little problem for some time, but thought I should bring it up. This is the bay window in the front spare bedroom on the main floor.  Water has been coming inside the wall since last winter, no doubt longer than that.  Linda replaced the gutter last winter which took care of the leak, but it is a bad design all around and bound to happen again in the future.  There is no soffit to speak of, and water just comes through the backside of the gutter. Not to mention how great it looks!  I have asked them to investigate the rotten bits below the window. Way past it's best before date. 

Week 16 - Day 74

Thursday

I discovered a new leak around the existing fireplace.  The chimney goes through my attic space and I found that it was sopping wet today.  Having all this rain lately has turned out to be a good thing as we can catch any problems now. There is some mold where the chimney meets the wall, that looks like from sometime in the past. Good ole Gabe went up and fixed a loose flashing and but 'goop' on it. (Official contractor term)  Holding steady for now.  Still a couple of weeks before drywall, so can keep an eye on it.

Week 16 - Day 73

Wednesday

Gutter day!  My new deck needed gutters and we decided to replace the wooden gutters for rest of the whole house. Our gutters  always reminded me of some kind of strange roman viaduct system, crazy bits going all over the place and made with weird bits of metal. The new ones look great.

Week 16 - Day 73

Wednesday
Anna has started to install the pot lights on my floor today. yoohoo!

Week 16 - Day 71

Tuesday
The skylight went in today. Picture is far too boring to post here.  The plumbing and electrical rough-in continue.  Little bit by little bit, we are getting there.

Week 16 - Day 70

Monday

I spent some time moving the fireplace bricks from the living room to outside.  The last of the drywall needs to come off and the electrician needs access at some point. Loads of fun.  

Week 16 - Day 70

Monday

Will took down the cover over the back deck, not really sure what to call it.

Week 16 - Day 70

Monday

Now this is the few I could have had, if the city had said yes to the deck in front and we had oodles of money.  I am poking my head out of the skylight opening.

Week 16 - Day 70

Monday

Did I mention the big honking skylight that came the other day.  It is HUGE.  Will assures me that it won't appear as big when installed.  For my bedroom, by the way.

Week 15 - Weekend

Spent all day lugging demo stuff to the bin, up and down , up and down.  Hopefully, the last of that. Did I mention how sick I am of doing dishes?  Really sick of it. And cooking is no treat either.  It all still seems like a galaxy far,  far away.

My kitchen with a dishwasher some day.

Ceiling in by bedroom with evidence of the nob and tube.

Old bathroom stacks which came up in front of my bathroom window
and has now been moved around the corner of the dormer.

For Gary.  Here is the drain from my deck going
through the ceiling in Linda's kitchen and outside.