So much has happened since demolition started, it's hard to know where to start this blog. And I know, I know, I'm late with an update once again. This whole project has a
good-things-come-to-those-who-wait feel to it, so why not this blog too? Most of you know, we're hoping to move in next summer or even spring, which means everything is happening pretty fast. But also slow. But mostly fast.
Demolition, by the way, is not over. I mean the bulk of it is done; it had to be before the real construction could begin. But just about every weekend, there are still bits and pieces of the house that still need tearing apart and hauling away. A new window here, some space for wires needed there.
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| More demolition in the kitchen where we're adding a window. |
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| Some tricky demolition in this room, just enough for the electrician to get in there. |
In the meantime, our contractors and subcontractors have been hard at work. One thing this house needed a lot of: new beams. As much as we're trying to preserve the history of this house, we don't really want to rely on a few nails from 1897 to hold the roof over our heads. Then we'd probably all be history.
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| New beams, ready to go in. |
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| Beam me up! |
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| A couple more upstairs. Exciting stuff. |
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| This is an old beam we actually removed in the kitchen; this wood will be used for our future dining room table. |
And then there's the plumbing. We ripped out all the old pipes, and started from scratch. Hot water and good water water pressure are musts. And for those of you into this sort of thing, our plumber used a bunch of PEX all over the house. More on how I'm adding all kinds of new terms - like PEX - to my vocabulary in a future blog. But, yeah, good plumbing is a priority.
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| The boys' future bathroom. |
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| Master bath shower. It's going to be awesome. |
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| PEX and stuff. |
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| The kitchen sink will go here, on an island in the middle. |
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| We've never had a whole laundry room before. |
And finally, power! Our electrician, Bill, has been hard at work running what I'm sure is miles and miles of wire. As you might recall from a previous blog here called
Power Play, we have big plans for the electricity running through this house. Not to keep you in the dark or anything, but we have about 90 can lights in the whole house.
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| Just one of many. |
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| Can't have lights, without light switches. |
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| So much wire. |
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| The indoor electrical box. Tiny though, compared to the one we will have outside. |
Bill isn't the only one who's been running wire. Ryan's been busy pulling at least a mile of speaker wire, ethernet cable and other things, making sure this house can be all tricked out when we're ready for that step. The bottom line is that all this stuff has to be done before the walls go in because once those are up, access goes away. And walls are just around the corner. Lots of corners, actually. Stay tuned.
Correction: an earlier version of this blog misidentified the kind of pipe were putting in to run water through the house, known as PEX -- further proof that although I am adding a lot of new words to my vocabulary, I still have a ways to go. (Just like the project.)
