Slowly getting there with ours. The Flex is in, but still have some unpacking & organizing to do before the F150 goes in.

 

Not yet, but I"m getting there

 

Out with the old....



In with the new!

 

 

Prepping the powder room to start it's makeover. Been ripping down wallpaper and wallpaper glue all day

 

I fucking hate doing that!
She moved in, huh? Powder room and all...

PS, my gf swears by maytag...

 

When it goes from 'downstairs shitter' to 'powder room' I'd say that's a good clue

 

Mine does as well, these are the newer versions of the ones she had at her house

And yeah, she moved in, hasn't paid me shit yet because she hasn't sold her house though

 

LOL...I'm sure she has been paying you in other ways.

 

Took some befores of the powder room, got the rest of the wallpaper backing and glue down, we also ripped out the old wall mounted sink, toilet and medicine cabinet to start getting ready for the makeover. Found some interesting things behind the sink/mirror area. These squares were filled in with cardboard and mudded over...



The toilet paper holder was set in to the wall and had to be cut out


The towel rack was also mortered into the wall...


And the window had significant water damage around the frame...



And so it begins...

 

that's awesome, man...
getting balls deep in some home reno that'll pay for itself later and make the lady happy.

bro, i give you shit, but i spent the weekend putting in flooring for my girlfriend's kid's rooms.
i'm bout that in love life.

 

Looking good Ack. Keep those projects rolling.

 

Thanks guys, unfortunately this is going to be a lot bigger project than I had hoped. There is water damage all the way around the window, plus an old leak that I thought wasn't leaking anymore, showed to still be leaking during a heavy rain the other night. My contractor is hoping that it's just leaking around the plumbing vent so he is going to try and seal that today. Basically I'm looking at a whole gut and drywall replacement on top of the rest of the work. So this little useless powder room that I don't use just doubled in cost

 

are we going to ignore the elephant in the room?
that if you had known that you could have smashed all that fucking drywall with wallpaper on it and gotten your weekend back?

 

Trust me, I bitched for a good 20 minutes about that... my fucking arm feels like it's about to fall off

Yeah, all that work stripping and prepping the walls, and dude says yeah, we need to tear all this shit out... thanks dude....

 

well, did you make enough money to put yourself through college?

 

 

those are exactly as I'd imagined!

 

 

Well, we believe we found the culprit. The roof looks fine, and this is the only opening in the roof in that area. My contractor guessed that it was this before even looking on the roof. According to him there was a crack in the vent that was letting water in during hard rains. I wish my home inspector would have found this issue 10 years ago so I wouldn't be dealing with it now... He caulked a good solid 2 inches around the pipe and we have to check tonight after it rained to see if any more water is coming through. Assuming that this fixed the issue, we should be good to start the remodel and rip out the drywall

 

Well the real demo starts tonight, ripping out all the drywall to get ready to install all new purple board...

 

damn, Kris...
I hope it holds.

 

Just wondering if I should just get started with the sledge before he gets here

 

the answer to that is always yes.

 

I would definitely want to do it. I want to rip something apart lol.

 

 

Make like that kid and start breaking shit.

 

Well it took 3 days for the demo to actually happen, but he finally came and removed all the sheet rock.





There's definitely no question where that leak in the ceiling was coming from




And we were impressed with the add on GFI box that wasn't mounted to anything lol. I had already replaced the GFI outlet, but when the drywall came down we discovered that it wasn't mounted to anything

 

 

floating junction box, what could go wrong.

 

I know right?

 

Having redone most of the electrical outlets and switches in this house myself, nothing really surprises me anymore with this place...

 

kinda takes the pressure off to do it right or to code though!

 

Makes me glad that the only shotty work we've found here has been just bad painting.

 

listen, we aren't all meant to survive...
if you die because of faulty wiring in your older home at least you gave your family a cool story to tell at Thanksgiving for years to come!

 

it's a retrofit box. It doesn't get secured to the structure.

 

You are correct, like I said it was added after the fact, but since we had the walls off we decided to get a proper box and mount it to the stud so it was housed correctly

 

It's a shame. I found some piping that was done shitty by the builder/contractor on our house. Ended up replacing it. While I sit there looking at it, I'm like WTF did inspectors not come out in 1999.

Built to code my ass.... This is why I wish I had money, and could just build my house from the ground up and check the progress daily.

Well, at least you can fix it now...

 

God knows the corners you'd cut if you did, Kev!
Although you could finally get that cactus and dust garden you've been dreaming about!

 

One day!