Side Deck/Lights

A Saturday project :) ripping down half of the deck covering to open it up and let some light in. I've been wanting some lights for the deck, just hoping once it's done it looks nice!

 All the muck on top of the green plastic! John is going to replace this with a clear plastic so we can have cover for a BBQ.

 

 

Tearing down the Master/Hallway Lighting

So...I took a bit of a break once I started the new job...but we're back! Still took all our pictures, but now finally getting around to posting them :)

This is the ceiling of the master bedroom. John de-humidified the room (found SO much mold once we took everything out!) and let everything dry out for a day or two. Lots and lots of bleach was used...

I thought this piece of wood was crazy. The knot had sap coming out of it? Of course I thought it was directly related to the leaky roof, but turns out it probably didn't have time to acclamate inside the house when it was cut down, and started leaking sap once it was installed.

This little corner where the white rag is is where the rats were climbing into the house. Once the room was completely cleaned out, there was a beam of light coming from that corner. It was covered immediately!

John was also working on the lighting for the hallway/kitchen. There was some experimentation with a 3-way switch...quite complicated, but now working!

Glad I got to see this thing in action...seemed so much easier than balancing the sheet rock on his head...

Moving Bedrooms

Big weekend! Friday night we offically moved everything out of the master, and into the living room/spare room. We were in shambles all weekend. It felt like we didn't have any bedrooms anymore-had to move all the wet things from the master into the spare to dry with the dehumidifyer, then started ripping the master open. EVERYTHING was wet-we did LOTS of laundry.

Mold :(

Our new little TV setup

Drying and heating...

The new home for my dresser...

One last picture of water damage (we're interested to see what was behind this).

Drying the mattress, pillows, and rug

Here we go!

CHAOS

Since the box spring was moldy, we decided to just put the mattress on the ground. The bed frame is in the basement. We figured why take up more room if this is just temporary. We joke that we don't feel like we are in our house when we are in this room since its completely redone and DRY. It's like a vacation, right?

 

Saturday morning John loaded up the truck and went to the dump. Along with all the garbage, were about 5 rats! We found a spot where there is a small hole in the sidding, and thinking that is where they were coming in. Now we are letting the room air out, get dry, then insulate and put the walls up.

And by Sunday, we were organized again :)