Room with a View

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No update last week, last weekend defeated us. We removed A LOT of subfloor, a little more subfloor, and cleaned up around the fireplace but that’s about all we did and it was a fight from start to stop.

I spent most of last weekend under the house in the crawl space. It’s the cleanest part of the house but its still nasty. Brady said I looked like I had spent the weekend spelunking, and I have to disagree. I was cleaner after the weekend I actually spent spelunking in a muddy cave.

These pants went straight in the garbage! This pic only shows the front, not the gaping hole that a nail put in the back. They don’t show this on HGTV!

Weekend of October 17 The Roof

This is a big weekend, that will turn into a big week. This weekend Brady began removing shingles and deckboard to see how bad the monster really is and it is BAD. Some worse than we thought but most not quite as bad as we imagined. The corner from Hades is definitely the worst part of the whole house and opening it up didn’t change that. There was a lot of shoddy construction that will make it a little harder to rebuilt than it should be in order to fix what should have been done right when the addition was added.

We now have a lot of new unintentional skylights, thankfully the cold front has assured us no rain until Thursday. The good part is that in a couple weeks I will be showing you all a brand new metal roof.

This is a baby size wad of spray foam. This was used to ”stop” the leak in the nasty corner. All it did was help to reroute rain water down into the wall and rot the studs. We tugged on one piece of exterior siding and a rotten stud came out with it. That’s REALLY not supposed to happen.

On a positive note, the moon and stars look very pretty from our living room.

Since we have to get the house dried back in before Thursday we will be working a good bit during the week this week. Brady is working on getting the sheathing back on before the slight chance of rain on Thursday. Here are the pictures from last night. He removed some of the deck boards on the deck and exposed some rot we weren’t expecting and built one more false wall to support the weight of the house while he replaces the major structural components that have rotted away.

This week’s goals are to get the structural issues fixed that have to do with the roof, get the deckboards reinstalled, and roll out synthetic underlayment where needed. AND the fireplace is getting inspected on Wednesday. … cross your fingers that we will get to keep it!

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