The last few days, my time has been dedicated to cleaning. First the window frames, that looked like they haven't been cleaned since the house was built (that's right, that would be about 110 years), as well as the bathroom vanity and kitchen cabinets we decided to salvage. They came off looking pretty good, but they require a hell of a lot of elbow grease...
The room we don't speak about is almost all scraped out and we finally figured out why one of the walls around the bathtub is looking so weird and is tiled with a different color : before they added the laundry room, the bathroom was looking outside, and had 2 windows; one that we just re-opened, and another one that they boxed in and tiled over ! (yes, it is weird) We have decided to take down the tiles and the box, then put up a new wall and a sheet of tile board. We were looking for something a bit creative to contrast with the yellow tiles, but the ones we found so far are boring ! So we keep on looking.
Also, the work from the contractor is a bit delayed (duh), because the borough we are in requires diagrams of all the work we are going to be doing. So Rick took his ruler and pencil (well actually his computer and printer) and made drawings of all the fresh water and heating pipes. Our contractor took them to the borough this afternoon, so we are hoping it will be accepted soon so the work can start (although we are still waiting on the permit for the fence that we requested 2 weeks ago...). I can't wait for that because it means we will have running water, which will make all this cleaning so much easier...
The room we don't speak about is almost all scraped out and we finally figured out why one of the walls around the bathtub is looking so weird and is tiled with a different color : before they added the laundry room, the bathroom was looking outside, and had 2 windows; one that we just re-opened, and another one that they boxed in and tiled over ! (yes, it is weird) We have decided to take down the tiles and the box, then put up a new wall and a sheet of tile board. We were looking for something a bit creative to contrast with the yellow tiles, but the ones we found so far are boring ! So we keep on looking.
Also, the work from the contractor is a bit delayed (duh), because the borough we are in requires diagrams of all the work we are going to be doing. So Rick took his ruler and pencil (well actually his computer and printer) and made drawings of all the fresh water and heating pipes. Our contractor took them to the borough this afternoon, so we are hoping it will be accepted soon so the work can start (although we are still waiting on the permit for the fence that we requested 2 weeks ago...). I can't wait for that because it means we will have running water, which will make all this cleaning so much easier...
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