It was apparent this last weekend that I'm not a carpenter. But Aaron comes from a long line of carpenters so I'm learning a lot! Friday night I started taking off the tiles in the guest bathroom because we wanted to save time and money and keep the dry wall that was already there up. I found that I was much better at tearing something completely down than trying to save the existing. There ended up being a few holes in the wall and honestly I didn't get a very big area done.
Fun Fact: Our house was built in 1912 and was the old grade school. Elaine went to school in our house.
Delman and Doug came over to help us explore our attic situation. Once they got up there they found that there was the ceiling of the old school rooms and then the roof of the old school and then the current roof. (I thought there were four levels but I can't remember what the other one was). Delman walked around and thank gave us an idea of what were were working with. They even helped up take town the 2x4's that were built into the attic. We're still not sure how it was built because they couldn't really get to them from the attic itself - it was a maze of sorts.
The next morning we went back to the house refreshed and had our awesome helpers, Elaine and Ashlee. Elaine worked on cleaning up the kitchen, I started pulling up the tile on the floor that was in the closet that we have now make into the addition of the kitchen and Aaron worked on taking down some of the ceiling that needed to be replace. I gave Ashlee the task that I wasn't very successful at in the guest bathroom and pulling down the tiles.
Elaine and I did as much as we could do in the kitchen. The room just became too small for three of us and honestly it was a safety hazard as the ceiling came down - very near our heads. We moved into the guest bathroom to help Ashlee. Ashlee had found out how hard it was to take the tiles down without ruining the existing dry wall. We all did our best and got all the tile off, took out the shower, sink, and flooring. Aaron came in and determined that it would be best to just take down the walls since it would probably take as much time or more to patch the work we created. We started taking down the walls but that project still needs to be completed. There are only so many hours in a day. I am SO THANKFUL for Ashlee and Elaine. They are machines and have been a true blessing.
Aaron and I started to work in the kitchen and decide where to put the appliances so that we could start putting up sheet rock and cutting out the correct areas for the outlets. We thought we were making progress but an old house isn't built completely "square". He measured the wall, cut the sheet rock and we started pushing it up into place . . . to big, so we cut some off the top but still to big - we did this a couple more times and decided it wasn't going to turn out good if we kept at it so we saved it for another day.
On Monday the guys from Plains Heating came out and started putting the furnace in the house. Aaron and I went to Burlington and picked out our carpet. Luckily they just had enough of the color we liked and it will be added to the things to install list.
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