Electricity - It's Alive!

The electricity has been run!

And ohboy, what a run it was.


R climbed up into the rafters to pull wire and cut the hole in the roof for the vent fan.  What a trooper!

Floors - The beginning

I have started working on the floors.  We decided that it was a good idea to get a good couple of coats on the floor under the shower, so I went ahead and sanded the back side of the room (where the shower and toilet will sit). 

The pictures do not really show a huge difference between the un-sanded floor (from in front of the cabinet to the left) and the sanded part (right of the cabinet), but IRL, there was some difference.

 

I did not get a picture of the floor after the first Gym-Seal application, but it is still a little visible in the last picture.  I re-sanded and reapplied the Gym-Seal, but not completely to the edge.  The edge is the first coat after a light sanding.  The nice pretty shiny part is the second coat, still wet.

 

The floors are still a bit rough... good enough for under the shower and toilet to protect the floor, but I think we will get the sander with attitude (aka belt sander) to take the rest of the floor down  little more.  Not surprising since the wood has been there for at least 50 years and looks like it was probably reclaimed at that time.

What Phase are we on? We will just call this one "The Door"

 It is just incredible what you find when  you cut open your walls... the house is apparently make of wood paneling over plank siding with cedar siding on top of that.  No wonder it is so solid... and hard to cut through  :)

This is the beginning of the 'door' phase.  Dad cut through the paneling to find... well.. this:

Testing

 Once that was done, we got started on cutting through the outside.  It was fun.  Dad drilled holes in the corners from the inside so we knew what to cut on the outside... pretty smart!

My main job was to manage the cord and to try to keep him from tipping over as the ladder sank in the mud... highly technical work, but I was able to handle it.  I did, for a brief moment, woman the saber saw when he was up the ladder and handed it down to me.  I think he just meant for me to hold it while he climbed down, but I decided to be a rebel. 

 

 

And.... tada!~

Not much to say ... just wanted to share the pictures of our new yarn babies  :)

I helped one be birthed today... I will post pictures of her later.

Operation "Dad's come for a visit" - Phase II

And so began Phase II.  I offered to be the one crawling under the house to start work on running the plumbing, but being the gentleman he is, he would no let me.  Apparently, the stick he used to clear out the cobwebs ahead of his crawl ended up looking like a dirty cotton candy stick.

Of course, every job requires a supervisor:

The view from the other side... it was interesting to find out that the plumbing coming out of the house is actually terra cotta.  You can see the part of the pipe we cut out in the second picture off to the right.

The supervisor, taking a well deserved break after a hard day of 'helping'

Operation "Dad's here for a visit" - Phase 1

 So Dad has come to visit... yay!

I had to bribe him to come by telling him I wanted to install a new bathroom. So now that he is here... I have to install a new bathroom  :)

This house is a Frankenstein.  The original house was one bedroom farmhouse that was built in the 1930's.  Sometime after that, they made part of the front entry into a bathroom.  Sometime after THAT, they put some old decomissioned military housing on the back, enlarging the house.  That piece came with a porch, which they enclosed to make a utility room (canning kitchen, back in the day) with a storage room.  It is this storage room that I decided would make a good second bathroom.

Phase 1 of the project was to remove the shelves from the room.  I forgot to take a 'before' picture, but it is pretty easy to see from the paint marks what it was like:

Standing in the door, looking left

Standing in the doorway, looking right.

For a second part of 'Phase 1' , Dad used the some of the shelves he took out of the storage room to make storage shelves in the utility room, including two nice shelves over the dye station.    They are great!  The unfortunate pastel green and blue is a result of 8 gallons of paint leftover from a project that never got started (is it still a leftover, if the project never happened?) .  And yes... waiting for paint to dry is as exciting as they say.  :P

New shelves... blue to the right, green to the left.