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Progress Report (3)
Nov. 30th, 2017 01:53 pm It's been quite a while since I updated here on the Big Deconstruction Project, or as my brother the general contractor called it, my Subtraction. So the subtraction part is done. The new heat system in and working in all the areas of the house that it can be at this stage. We are well into "phase 3" of the project - finishing/remodeling the interior.
Things currently in progress are:
Brickwork on the south side at/below grade level - next there will be a retaining wall and final landscaping.
Decking on screened porch - the hot tub is on the porch, but not in final position yet. Yes, I do get a working hot tub well before the rest of the porch is done.
Still working on the laundry room/bathroom which has to be done before demoing the pink powder room (which is holding up some work upstairs, because plumbing, you really don't want me to go into how complicated plumbing can be, do you?)
The new office is 3/4 drywalled. If we had more people working that could be done soon.
It was really cool watching the demo "team" (a guy with an excavator and another guy spotting) take down the east end. In about an hour they had 1/2 of it in a giant dumpster truck - the kind they haul wood chips in. I think the top took 2.5 trucks to take away. The foundation and pool however, were challenging. "Built like a highway bridge" was what the demo team said. It took them 2 days to break up the foundation and the pool - they used chunks of foundation like a jackhammer in the grip of the excavator thumb to break up the bottom of the pool.
The basement still needs it's drywall (or equivalent) and some lighting work. It turns out that we get to keep the downstairs bathroom, but now it's just a toilet and a sink. It will be more like a "clean-up room" for when we're working down there. Which reminds me of complicated plumbing - so in the process of having to dig a trench anyway, I had a new frost-free hydrant installed for the horse paddocks. When the plumber hooked the pipe up in the house, he grabbed a hot water pipe instead of cold, which was not really what we were expecting. When he comes back to re-do it, I'm going to have him put in a mixer so I can set the temperature of the water going out to the hydrant from the aforementioned basement bathroom. Winter is coming.
Things currently in progress are:
Brickwork on the south side at/below grade level - next there will be a retaining wall and final landscaping.
Decking on screened porch - the hot tub is on the porch, but not in final position yet. Yes, I do get a working hot tub well before the rest of the porch is done.
Still working on the laundry room/bathroom which has to be done before demoing the pink powder room (which is holding up some work upstairs, because plumbing, you really don't want me to go into how complicated plumbing can be, do you?)
The new office is 3/4 drywalled. If we had more people working that could be done soon.
It was really cool watching the demo "team" (a guy with an excavator and another guy spotting) take down the east end. In about an hour they had 1/2 of it in a giant dumpster truck - the kind they haul wood chips in. I think the top took 2.5 trucks to take away. The foundation and pool however, were challenging. "Built like a highway bridge" was what the demo team said. It took them 2 days to break up the foundation and the pool - they used chunks of foundation like a jackhammer in the grip of the excavator thumb to break up the bottom of the pool.
The basement still needs it's drywall (or equivalent) and some lighting work. It turns out that we get to keep the downstairs bathroom, but now it's just a toilet and a sink. It will be more like a "clean-up room" for when we're working down there. Which reminds me of complicated plumbing - so in the process of having to dig a trench anyway, I had a new frost-free hydrant installed for the horse paddocks. When the plumber hooked the pipe up in the house, he grabbed a hot water pipe instead of cold, which was not really what we were expecting. When he comes back to re-do it, I'm going to have him put in a mixer so I can set the temperature of the water going out to the hydrant from the aforementioned basement bathroom. Winter is coming.
