Moving Right Along...

Here's little Tan man just working away. He worked so hard that we now have the resulting pictures:

These were all taken November 8th, 2008. Nearly one month after closing these are all the changes we have accomplished - 

Here you can see that the front of the house has been painted. Instead of cream with brown trim it is now a tannish green with white trim. 

Also, notice the new roof - the shingles are no longer falling off or peeling up. It is kindof a grey color.We also had all of the windows replaced. It sure makes a big difference. Our whole house feels a million times cleaner.

Brody and Mylan worked really hard at raising the garage beam twelve inches so that we could have a taller new garage door. Here you can see that we installed an electric one. The home had always had a manual door.

Some areas of the house are looking much worse now that we have started digging in. Brody said raising the drop-boxed-light ceiling in the kitchen was the worse job yet. Trying to manage all the free-floating lint-like insulation that was above it was quite the trick. Here you can also see the new window and framing that went around the sink area.

Here is the view from the outside. Jason came and gave Brody some masonry lessons to accomplish this one. It was some pretty cold work for a while. 

This first picture is a before of all the vent-work that was down stairs in the yellow bedroom. Now that we have  a new furnace inside instead of outside, they had to remove a reverse a lot of the duct work. We get half the ceiling back in this room once we are able to finish up the sheetrock.

Like I said though, some of it is looking worse. But the project is showing potential :)

You can see here where there was water damage around the basement windows.

It sure is nice to have that huge boiler/ furnace "barnacle" off the side of the house now. There is a cement pad where the air conditioner is going to go once we cement over the hole in the foundation - you can see it where the yellow insulation is stuffed in to the right of the window.

My beautiful downstairs bathroom is going to be torn up for quite a while. With two upstairs, it is not much of a priority and there will be some 2x4s that will be replaced due to the water damage and the rancid mouse smell that we can't get out. The new furnace and water heater are already in place where the old laundry room was. Just on the other side of the bathroom wall. 

The home was run on propane with a tank in the back yard. We have arranged for natural gas to come and have a nice trench in our grass to show for it now. The furnace/ gas inspector should be coming and attaching everything on the 19th of November so we are excited about the potential of heating our house again.