Day 6

July 29, 2010

Well, today was a bit more productive than yesterday. We still have the mold issue (shocking that it just didn't magically disappear) and found a few more areas in that room with water damage. Not surprising and there isn't much we can do until the roof is finished. My cousin's husband was going to cut out the mold today, but said that there would be too much additional water damage if we did that. So, hopefully the weather can hold up for the roofers.


View from our attic. They're laying on the new OSB board.

When the contractor and I went up to the attic to check out the mess in the attic/progress on the roof, he stuck his head up and said hi to the roofers who were standing on the boards you see in the picture above. They weren't expecting to see him and one of them screamed like a little girl. Maybe it's not such a good idea to scare people who are on the very top of a very steep roof. At least they have signed waivers.


The view of the mess. They cleaned up most of it and you can't really see what's going on, but they are making progress.

Today there were actually about 8 or 9 guys on the roof instead of the 2 or 3 from yesterday. It was also a bit cooler so they worked for quite awhile.

My mom came over for about 3 hours before work and we worked on getting more wallpaper off. I stayed for another 4 hours or so and made some progress.

Here are the comparisons:


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In the picture you see above, we're having a heck of a time getting the paper off from above the front door. There's some substance that is making it difficult. We'll trouble shoot later. Oh, my mom was on that ladder in front of the front door. She about got knocked down when someone came in. Mental note to lock the door if you are using a ladder in front of it.



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We also finally had all of our locks changed and Casey stopped by at lunch to check on yazoo. Alok is allegedly working tonight on the house while I'm at roller derby, so hopefully he'll have a chance to post.

In the meantime, we decided that we are gutting our downstairs bathroom that is in the apartment area so that we have a sanitary place to bathe when we move in. Here it is in its current state:



Suggestions? We know we want to get the vanity out (it's WAY too big for the space) and we want to keep the lights on the wall, as they are original. Oh, we are definitely NOT keeping the carpet in the bathroom. Every bathroom in this house had carpet. Yuck.

Oh and to answer a question, yes, it's as small as it looks.

Jessie