Yesterday we got our first piece of mail. THANK YOU Andrea and Maria!!!
Today we were able to get all of the walls primed and one coat on the closets.
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BAM
Between yesterday and today we were able to finish sanding the floors and priming the ceiling. I tiled the bathroom floor(thanks to Bill and Andy for letting me borrow their tile saw). Now the place will start to come together quickly.
Moving Along
Gabriel, our skim-coat guy, and his crew banged out the whole house today. It makes the house look so much better. Now we can finish the bedroom floors and get ready to paint.
Sheetrock done
So at HD yesterday morning we realized the 7.5″ grinder and several masonry blades could get the floors where we want them. The hardest part of the process was removing the left over material from the linoleum. After spending all day on our knees, we finished the kitchen, living room, bathroom, and the hall.
I managed to slice into my knee with about a one foot square of floor left, so Greg had to finish. I’m fine and there wasn’t much carnage, but the cut being on my knee is a problem for walking and bending. Lesson learned.
Today the electricians finished moving lightswitches and wiring the new cable, while Greg sheetrocked the rest of the closet and made all the small patches throughout the house.
More pictures soon!
Grinding fail
Well the grinder/sander we rented was no match for the floors. It’s off to Home depot for another solution.
Probably will end up painting the floors white once we get them to a surface texture we like.
Trial and errors.
Finally
Today we finally got the house, it has been a trying 4 months. Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and kind words.
The electrician came and started moving lights and adding them. Gabriel and crew showed up and began properly scrapping the ceiling. We found out that we needed to scrape more or the skim-coat would bubble and look really bad.
Greg and I did some insulating and dry-wall work in the kitchen and in my closet.
Tuesday
First we ground all the nail heads left over from the floor tack off. Greg started blocking out Chad’s closet and sealed the hole in the wall left from removing the swamp cooler duct. We finally started patching all the small holes from the old phone lines, speakers, and other random things that we are not going to be needing.
We put the old toilet, swamp cooler, stove, and stacks of particle board out for trash tomorrow. Not 10 minutes after we came back inside did someone stop and picked up the stove and swamp cooler. Wish we had know someone was going to take it so fast, we could have put other things out for trash. we can only put out 4 large items a week, oh well.
Greg met the mail lady, and she seemed exciting that we were moving in.
At the end of the day, we got a bid for someone to skim-coat the ceilings. They are going to start some time this week.
Working away
Yesterday was spent on the living room ceiling, tearing down the drop ceiling in the kitchen, putting shelves together and more weeding.
Seems like we have spent as much time at Home Depot and Lowe’s as we have at the house. Lots of garbage bags, new door locks, looking at light fixtures and the never ending price comparisons.
An electrician stopped by to cap off a few wires, talk about moving somethings around, and take a look at wiring the garage for Greg’s studio. Basically two small jobs, one now and the other a little later on.
Tomorrow a guy is stopping by to bid out plastering the ceiling now that the popcorn is gone.
Yesterday
After getting rid of the linoleum in the bathroom and some discussion we decided that a new toilet, new sink, white tile and lots of white paint would do wonders for the bathroom.
Greg finished scraping the bedroom ceiling and the small hall. The linen closet seemed to be in place slightly crooked, so Greg removed the trim. This allowed him to just pull out the closet because it wasn’t even nailed down.
I spent the morning in the attic pulling down the duct work for the swamp cooler. Ones closet can never be to big.
Bye bye popcorn
We scraped one bedroom ceiling and started the other. Surprised by how easily the popcorn came off. Hope to have living room done by Monday. Next will be sanding the concrete floors.
Since the swamp cooler had failed we decided to take it out, which gives Chad a larger closet.
We will post pictures tomorrow.
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