House Progress

I sat here for a few minutes trying to think of the right way to start this post. . . I am not really sure what to say.

The funny thing is that I started to get a little nervous at this point. (picture above) Nick and Byron came over and helped Michael rip everything off the outside of the house down to the insulation, then they covered it up with this black plastic to keep the weather out. Here I was worried about what might happen if it rained, little did I know what was ahead on this adventure.

Then the next time Byron came over they ripped the roof off!!! I told him he wasn't allowed to come over anymore if he was going to keep tearing my house apart.

Literally camping in our house. A remodel in Feb/March may not have been the wisest thing we have done. We really wanted to get it done before the baby came and actually wanted to start in January but with one thing after another pushing it back. .. . . .well here we are. Michael had taken the day part of his shift off so that he could get demo done and be prepared for the framers to come the next day, unfortunately the part that needed to be done was more of the roof and the wall to our bathroom upstairs. And then the rain came!!! I had to go out every few hours of the night and make sure water wasn't pooling in the tarps cause it would have gone right down into the living room. At least I am up every few hours running to the bathroom anyway.

OOPS! That beam was not suppose to go through the ceiling!

Michael and Byron built these fake walls and put them up in the living room so that we could save the sheet rock while the ripped the roof off. . . . well the walls did a great job! The beam however . . . . .

Finally we start to see progress. We were hoping to get the office/bathroom area done first but the weather was not cooperating. We couldn't take the tarp off cause of the rain so they couldn't do a whole lot over on that side of the house. But the garage started to take shape.

Monday (3-15) we finally got some nice weather to be working in. It was partly sunny but it was 64 degrees which made it a good day to have your house torn apart. The framers, Byron and Michael got to work early and did as much as they possibly could to the office/bathroom part of this project. Which included knocking out two more walls to the outside of the house.

Here the entry closet has been torn out and you are looking through what used to be a bathroom and then into the office and right outside.

Jonah came up to help Michael on his day off on Friday and they sheeted the garage. It was COLD and wet but they did a great job!

Michael, Byron and the framers made some really good progress on Monday. We were (or shall I say, THEY were) trying to beat the rain again since it was suppose to rain Tuesday. They got the walls up and the trusses but ran out of time to sheet it so the tarp went right back over the top.