March 05, 2005
The Joys of Homeownership...
As mentioned yesterday, I've got a bit of free time on my hands... So I pulled some of the pictures together from what I've been doing... I'll warn you now, the images may take a bit to download if you're stuck with Dial-up like I still am, so everything is going in the extended entry...
Follow if you dare...
So to start off, I've got a few shots of just the doorway between the bedroom, and the living room... Try to remember, this guy was supposedly a contracter... I wouldn't have lived this way in a rental place, let alone something I owned...
Same door, closed, in the bedroom... Mind you, I haven't started any demolition here yet, this was the condition at purchase...
Same door, still in the bedroom... What you're seeing is exposed metal lath and broken plaster with raw wood behind it... the whole vertical line of the door is like this...
Jumping ahead just a bit, I've ripped out all the carpeting and padding except the bit under the radiator... Sadly the hardwood flooring has been machine guned with screws to stop squeeks, so I'll have to cover it with something else... Remember the position of the radiator, and windows as I go on as a good reference point...
Ok, I've started demolition same radiator and windows...
Walls and ceiling are now down... It looks so dark because of the fire damage...
Yea... That's charing on the wood... Lovely to work around... Ugh...
That's me on the left... The window to the left of me is the left window in the other shots, and the one to the right is to the right... We're knocking down the wall between the bedroom, and living room now as it was just attached to the ceiling plaster... Once I knocked the plaster down the wall got loose...
Me on the the right this time... I'm kneeling where the door from the first few shots used to be...
I'm not quite sure if I own a home, or just another massive show...
Posted by Backstage at March 5, 2005 09:39 AMYou are the bravest person I know! I can't imagine taking on a project like that!
Keep us posted!
Posted by: Tammi at March 9, 2005 05:29 PMI don't know how in the world I came across your blog, one of those linkety link sort of things, but you sound a heckuva lot like me, so I read for a while.
The workers comp thing was real familiar (glad it worked out for you!) and the profession too. I run a casework and trim install crew down here in the south, with a lot of fabrication tossed in on the side.
Hope your rehab is going well. And that you're young enough to deal with it! Take care. I'll be back.
Posted by: outfoxed at March 12, 2005 10:40 AMBrave?... Not likely... More likely a bit fearless, and reckless... I leave brave for people that go in to burning buildings to help others and the like...
I won't tell you that it must be nice to do trim and such, as I'm sure just like me, its just another job... People are always thinking that what we do must be interesting, but as usual, it really is just another job... (course, I love the job, but that's just a fringe benifit) I do enjoy getting to do the home type work as its going to exist for a while... Everything we do at the shop is so fleeting, as it heads for the dumpster more often than not after just a few days, or weeks at most...
Posted by: Tim at March 15, 2005 08:14 PM