Day 5

July 28, 2010

Today was a short lived work day. I am having some allergy problems.... hmmmm... I wonder why! Our new plan of attack for the mold is to go ahead and have it cut out of the plaster now, even though the room is still leaky. If more mold grows, so be it. The problem is, we need to find someone to cut it out. Alok swears it's still growing. I don't think it is. Let's let the pictures decide. Here it is 2 days ago:



Here it is today:



Looks the same to me. The only difference is the better quality pictures from today. Isn't mold exciting? I'm hoping that someone will be able to cut it out tomorrow.

I did very little peeling today. My mom came by again and lunch and helped. Here was Alex again:


Alex being very confused by what is going on and what smells so bad. She won't even eat her bone at the new house. Probably too unsanitary for her. Although, she did try to eat a piece of wallpaper yesterday.

I kept working on the backing in the foyer. I was also very sore from roller derby, which slowed me down and I kept burning myself with the stupid steamer.

Here it is at the beginning of today:



And at the end:


So impressive, huh?

I also working on peeling the gold grass paper off of the front room with the ugly built in bookshelf. Here it is at the beginning of the day:



And at the end:





Again, the backing is virtually the same color at the wallpaper, so you can't see the difference that well.

The most exciting thing was that our roofers started today. We went with JDS construction (Jim Sanders). So far he's been great to work with. We'll see how that progresses. Here is how it looks today:



This really doesn't show you much, but you can see the debris that is falling down from the roof. I'm just happy they started. The bad news is that they have a shortage of guys to work on the house. They had 6 guys not show up today and many people won't do it because of the heat. Know any roofers out of work? Let us know :-)

Oh, remember the air conditioner that caused the window debacle yesterday? Here it is still sitting on the roof:

The air conditioner on the balcony of the fire escape

They were too short manned today to try to get it down.

So, not too exciting today on the internal work, but some progress is being made on a non-leaking roof. Let's hope more guys show up tomorrow!!

Some people have been asking what our plan is. This is a great question that keeps evolving. As it stands now, our goal is to get the place health hazard free so we can move in. What that means is the roof has to be completed, we need new gutters (we're going with Peters on that), then we need to fix all of the water damage on the 2nd floor and in the closet in the apartment (first floor) area. We also hope to have a new heating system put in the house, as well as air upstairs, but that is actually more expensive than our roof, so we may have to wait.

Our goal for downstairs prior to move in is to get rid of all of the wallpaper, wash down and kilz the walls downstairs (kilz is a product that gets rid of allergens/odors, etc- we'll paint later), rip up all carpet on the 1st floor, refinish the hidden oak floors, and make one bathroom more usable. Then, we'll live downstairs, making the apartment our bedroom, while we work on other areas of the house. That's the plan, we'll see what really happens.

Jessie