Thursday, September 6, 2007

How time has flown...


Whew! we have been swamped the past week trying to get moving an make some more progress... we have to be out of the rental by Oct 1 so we have gone into overdrive. The good news is that the bathroom subfloor is replaced, the plywood for the linoleum underlayment is installed, and the bead board wainscoting is installed. I have also gotten all of the new wiring & electrical boxes for new switches and wall

Pictures of what we were up against

sconces run but not hooked up yet. Soon you will actually be able to turn on the bathroom light using a light switch rather than plugging in a worklight.. Civilization, here we come! Steve has been a cleaning manic and has gotten most of the house ready for paint - surprisingly, the existing paint is not worn like the first thought, it was just really filthy, an now that the walls and trim have been cleaned, they look they were recently painted. I am still amazed how people could live in such filth.
We also finally started in on the basement cleaning, finding that there was a homeless encampment down there, along with a more recently deceased rat..EWWWWW!!!!! Steve the rat undertaker took care of that, and we got rid of the homeless persons paraphernalia, which no doubt was attracting more rats.
We also had somewhat of a run in with a live rat on Wednesday night, I brought over a coffee can to use for screws and hardware, but failed to get all of the coffee out, so when we arrived on Wednesday night, the plastic lid had been chewed through, and there was rat debris on the dinning room floor, which Steve had thoroughly cleaned on Tuesday night.
I have been in rat denial, thinking they had all left since there has been no food in the house for over 6 months, and Steve saying No, they are probably still here. I have been snapped out of my happy rat free world and have to face the fact that the not so little buggers are lurking after dark looking for the next meal. Steve has volunteered to be the rat catcher and disposer and set the traps Friday night. Saturday HE is going in first to dispose of the bodies. If he can't catch them with traps, I am calling the exterminator. At least the carpet has not been installed yet!
Tommorrow night I will finish installing the Wainscoting trim in the bathroom and hopefully get a coat of primer on everything so I can paint on Saturday. Then comes the finish flooring and then a working commode. Then we will really be civilized.

1 comment:

Sandy and Michael said...

Our goal is to be in by October 1 right now, although it feels like a slightly ridiculous hope at this point. I really hope we can pull through.

It is a good feeling to be putting things together rather than tearing down though :)

sandy