Richard and Kaitlin's Renovation: 2009

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Updates

Sorry for not posting anything new in a while but between the new job, the move, and the renovation we've been a little busy. Good news is we are settled, making progress, and I've passed the licensing exam I've been studying for and Kate is winding down work for a little while so she'll be able to help with the house more. The kitchen, the master, and the bathroom are sheet-rocked and taped and we will start mudding them this week. The sewer pipes had roots growing through them so we had to have a plumber come and fix this, he was here for 4 hours on a Saturday (ouch $$) but had to be done. I always thought that people screwed up budgets by not preparing and poor management but geeze I'm starting to understand that if it can go wrong, you probably should prepare for it.

Here are some new pics...

Will post more when I have more time.

First of the Kitchen-here is the new wall we put back where it originally was...

New back door in place

Here is the laundry room in the old "butlers" pantry, with the A/C & heater shown with scaffolding stored.

Outside of said new wall

Another...

This is what it looks like to live in a construction zone

New bathroom vanity

Bedroom wall

Kitchen ceiling

Another view of kitchen

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Quick Update

The house leveling company started on Monday, a full week early, so that is awesome news. They are going to be done by Tuesday because of the Thanksgiving Holiday but everything is going great so far. The house already is signifigantly more level than it was and they are only halfway done. Some of the stucco is cracking but nothing that isn't fixable and it was expected. Will post pics when I get time this weekend.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Some Updates

hew! What a busy week, between new job and trying to work on the house and driving back and forth between San Angelo and Sweetwater, I haven't slept much. Sorry for just the few pictures but I'll try to get more up soon. Still waiting on the house leveling company to get there and get the job done. Getting estimates on the roof, amazing how many differences you can have in opinions from company to company.

Some "landscaping" done, well at least we cleared out all the crap that was there so I can start to plant some nice shrubs next spring.

Some drywall up, can't do too much until the house is level.

New back door.

Eaves and trim getting replaced or scraped and primed by the painting crew.

The paint is coming off the trim, not easily but is coming off.

All in all, a fairly productive week, we have a good bit of stuff moved into the construction zone since we are going to try and live there during the renovation. We have to get a everything moved from San Angelo by Dec 6 (Wish us luck).

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Wow there is so much to do

Well now that I have some "before pictures" posted, I will be periodically adding updates as we progress. There is a lot of work that needs to be done that has to be put on hold for now. With the houses age it has become unleveled throughout the years and has caused some major but fixable problems throughout the house. We have contracted a house leveling company to come and correct this problem, which is great except they can't get to it until December and wow it's not cheap (but has to happen). They will be raising the house up with hydraulic jacks and putting two support joists the length of the house and pouring new piers for them to rest on. We really can't drywall or put in cabinets or anything like that until the house is level, so for now all of that will have to wait, but don't worry there are many things that can be done.