Day 4

July 27, 2010

Before I start, I wanted to give you all more context for the wallpaper debate (as requested). Here are additional pics:


Parlor wallpaper


Close up on the men/sheep

Today started with more wallpaper peeling. I was there by myself again since most other people are working. I got pretty far in pulling of the first layer of painted gold grasspaper in the dining room area. This pictures don't show much because the backing is virtually the same color as the wallpaper.


Sorry. I wasn't by myself. Alex was there.

Here it is before starting:




Gotta love painted light covers

Here it is after:



Most of the gold is gone, you just can't tell. I just need to finish the south wall, then one that is in the front of this picture.

Then, I moved back to the foyer where I worked on getting the backing off of the wall from the green grass paper.

Here it is when I started this morning:

Foyer before


Here it is after:


Not too impressive. There were a few reasons for this. Basic ones were talking to the roofers (who are starting tomorrow, the materials were delivered today), getting quotes on windows, as well as another air conditioning/heating quote. Oh, and the people came to cut the box springs apart so they could move them out of the attic. That wasn't what took the most time though. When talking to the roofers, they pointed out a rather large air conditioner that was basically sitting on the roof. It was at the landing of the inside stairs. This air conditioner needed to moved from the window so they could easily work on the roof. Plus it looked like it was from about 1970 and shouldn't be turned on anyway. Air conditioners on windows also cause water damage, so we figured we should go ahead and have them move it. Sounds easy, right? Wrong. Very, very wrong.

Here it is before



Here they are trying to remove the unit:



And here it is after:









Here is is now

So, basically the window frame was cut bigger than the window so that the unit would fit. It had completely rotted the window frame, ruined the window, and the wall under the window. That is probably why that had wood paneling underneath the window. Sigh. The bad news is, our wall is ripped up and we have no window. Also, they can't figure out how to get the unit off the roof since it's so heavy so right now it's just sitting on the roof (we're going to try to get it back through the window and out tomorrow. The good news is that I had Doors and More measure that window earlier in the day and we discovered hidden mold (not good that it was there, but good that we know). I guess we'll start by replacing that window. Oh, they also got rid of the nasty curtains that was covering it.

That's all from me for today. Maybe one of these days Alok will post. I'm off to roller derby.

Jessica