We've had 2 very good days of working on the house. We finished removing the downstairs kitchen, and unfortunately found that the exterior wall has rotted pretty bad. We budgeted about $2000 to build a porch out back, and decided that would be the last thing we'd do. If we were within budget at the end, we'd build the porch, and if we were over budget, then it would get cut. It looks like repairing that wall may eat some of our porch budget, but that's fine.
We've removed about 80% of the carpet - an absolute necessity as it was quite smelly. I don't think I've ever seen carpet so stained in my life. I wanted to throw it in the dumpster next door (which the guy said we could use for FREE) but Fanette convinced me that we should recycle it, even if it meant driving it 30 minutes in to the city to the carpet recycling center. We're trying to be as ECO as we can with our rehab. Anything that can be saved, is being saved. We're taking screws out of wood and if it all looks good, saving the screws and saving the wood. You never know when you're going to need a little piece of scrap wood. Rehabbing can generate a lot of waste, and generally its easier/cheaper to throw everything out and just buy new stuff, but landfills are filling up due to that train of thought, so we're doing our part. Anyway, it turns out the carpet recyclers had a container where we could make a drop off stationed just a few miles from us, so the ride wasn't so bad. The container was located at a flooring warehouse and they used it discard all their scraps from jobs. Turns out there was a huge half-roll of linoleum in the container which was big enough for us to do our bathroom AND laundry room, so we grabbed it. And it looks like its better quality than the stuff we would have bought anyway. It does pay to do the right thing.
We've also selected the contractor we're going to work with. We found a good General Contractor that can do all of the work we need. His time frames seem to be great and the price is right. So hopefully we'll have running water in the next week or so.
Other than that, we've been spending our time going around pulling out all the old nails and screws from the wall, and making lists of what we should be doing next. Oh, and we set up a little 'chill out' area. Someone discarded an old 3-legged side table in our backyard (it only had 2 legs, but some of that aforementioned scrap wood and recycled screws fixed that right up) so we brought it in and paired it up with a couple of lawn chairs and we've got a sitting/snack area. We've also moved over the fridge and just bought a mini-oven tonight so we should be cookin' in no time.
We've removed about 80% of the carpet - an absolute necessity as it was quite smelly. I don't think I've ever seen carpet so stained in my life. I wanted to throw it in the dumpster next door (which the guy said we could use for FREE) but Fanette convinced me that we should recycle it, even if it meant driving it 30 minutes in to the city to the carpet recycling center. We're trying to be as ECO as we can with our rehab. Anything that can be saved, is being saved. We're taking screws out of wood and if it all looks good, saving the screws and saving the wood. You never know when you're going to need a little piece of scrap wood. Rehabbing can generate a lot of waste, and generally its easier/cheaper to throw everything out and just buy new stuff, but landfills are filling up due to that train of thought, so we're doing our part. Anyway, it turns out the carpet recyclers had a container where we could make a drop off stationed just a few miles from us, so the ride wasn't so bad. The container was located at a flooring warehouse and they used it discard all their scraps from jobs. Turns out there was a huge half-roll of linoleum in the container which was big enough for us to do our bathroom AND laundry room, so we grabbed it. And it looks like its better quality than the stuff we would have bought anyway. It does pay to do the right thing.
We've also selected the contractor we're going to work with. We found a good General Contractor that can do all of the work we need. His time frames seem to be great and the price is right. So hopefully we'll have running water in the next week or so.
Other than that, we've been spending our time going around pulling out all the old nails and screws from the wall, and making lists of what we should be doing next. Oh, and we set up a little 'chill out' area. Someone discarded an old 3-legged side table in our backyard (it only had 2 legs, but some of that aforementioned scrap wood and recycled screws fixed that right up) so we brought it in and paired it up with a couple of lawn chairs and we've got a sitting/snack area. We've also moved over the fridge and just bought a mini-oven tonight so we should be cookin' in no time.
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