are we there yet?
no. but getting close.
with the outside work anyway. there's just a little bit of everything left: a little lap siding, a little shingle siding, a little trim, a little soffit work, a little painting ... and gutters. i imagine with some decent weather, we should be done in a few days. and trumpets shall sound and a chorus of angels will burst into song. winter will turn to spring. peace will unfold in the middle east. (pics from all 4 sides on Flickr).on another note, the bathroom is officially gutted.
the enchanted shell shower exited with a mere whimper. i bought some carbide tipped blades for the sawzall ... the phrase hot knife through butter would be appropriate. strangely enough, the shower enclosure was in no way fastened to anything. it just sat there. also, there was/is a large hole in the floor in one corner where some lovely plumber mangled the floor putting in the drain and water lines. this highly trained plumber also just bent the copper lines instead of installing fittings, supported the drain by letting it rest on the top of a partially removed floor joist (looks like a chainsaw got loose) and using a coat hanger, and has part of a drain running uphill. all in all, excellent work. the marks of a true craftsman.there was more mold (and former mold) in the bathroom
than expected--in one corner from an old roof leak which we saw from the outside and near the toilet from when it was not working right and the tank was slowly overflowing. so, i had a fun sanitizing session (glad we have our respirators from the asbestos project) ... so it's good we are doing this project to remove possible mold sources. and of course, in the midst of all this, i realized the upstairs toilet wasn't working right (the float wasn't shutting the water off) so had to scavange parts from the old toilet to fix it quickly (and replace the downstairs toilet shutoff). but, since remediation and emergency repairs i've gotten things all cleaned up and on the dry, strengthened the existing tub/shower enclosure and bulkhead, framed in for a shower ceiling and began putting in some new framing for the rear shower wall. i need to get to a 32"x60" enclosure for the Kerdi kit. i won't get there perfectly (without major reworking of what's already there) so am getting it "practically" close so that only minor changes will be needed to the kit (hopefully changes i can easily work out in the tiling).Mr. Toby had some more antics the other day.
the painters were inside the sunroom again. suddenly one of the painters came and asked me to (in broken english) put Toby in another room ... and he showed me the little white pawprints on the floor leaving the sunroom. apparently Toby jumped into a freshly painted windowsill. luckily it came off the floor easy ... not so much off Toby -- he still wears his badges of shame.
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