As most of you know I bought a house in May. It is a fixer-upper, but I am very excited to have a place to call home. Of course the work is not cheap or easy, but in the end I will have a great little log cabin to call home. The pictures are mostly taken from June, when Mr. George Dilworth, Mr. Mike Mills, and Steve Mills came up to help start the huge undertaking of renovating a house. We had to start by gutting the few failed attempts at walls, and throwing out all of the previous owner’s junk. We built walls, installed electric, moved doors, replaced windows, installed stairs, cleared the lot, prepped for installation of the heat, hung sheet rock, and worked on the plumbing. Thanks you guys for your help. There is still a lot to do, and if you want to come help just let me know.
House
The view from the house we stayed in
View looking south along the river
View looking north along the river
The south side of the house pre-construction
The east side of the house pre-construction
The west side of the house pre-construction
The team before they get started
Step one, throw out all the junk in the house
We gutted the place in one morning
The stairs needed to be moved
But first lets put up a wall, for the electric
Mr. George Dilworth working on the electric
Mr. Mike Mills installing the circuit breaker box
Hurray it works, we have light.
Isn’t that nice looking?
The lights in the kitchen work
The lights in the bathroom work
We can even plug in the fridge
Onward, we have more framing to do
Working on the bathroom
Deciding how best to tackle the next problem
The next step fix the natural gas line
The stairs reinstalled in the correct place
Another view of the work, and the stairs
Teamwork, made us get a lot of stuff done
The first piece of sheet-rock.....
almost ready to be hung
Hurray, the kitchen wall is rocked
Mr. George deciding how to cut this piece
but lets measure first
Looks like he did a good job
Figuring out how to fit the fridge back into the space
Furniture and stylish
Lots of work in the crawl space, waste and water
We had to replace the big plexi-glass sheets....
with actual windows
So we built a stand for Steve and I
It worked..
and looks good.
Finished the upper windows
I hung some lights outside
Mr. George fixing the door
and putting up trim.
It worked well, looks good, and is durable.
When the plumber came to install the heat....
the guys decided to clear the lot.
The radiant floor heat sends hot water through
lots and lots
and lots and lots
of tubes.
These tubes are buried in a concrete mixture.
That solid floor then radiates the heat.
One problem we encountered was a
broken pit-less, 10 feet down the well.
I tried to dig it out with a garden tractor and shovel
But in the end I had to get a backhoe
It was so wet and muddy, that the only way out
of the hole was for the hoe to lift us out
We did manage to fix the broken pipe though.
And finally, 24 hours before I headed back to
New Jersey, I managed to get the sink installed
and the toilet installed and working.
