MS Paint Demolition Update!

Real quick post of what we have left to do and what we've gotten rid of.

The Red shows what's been removed. The X or short lines
and partial X show where the ceiling is completely removed or
Partially removed. The red lines making up the small room show
that the room, studs and all are gone. We have one and a half ceilings left with
Plaster to remove 1 Full wall to take down. And then the kitchen and bathroom to strip and gut.
No plaster in those two rooms so it makes it a piece of cake. Oh and the 2 chimney's left.

The house is 75% complete with demolition. By Monday of NEXT Week November 7th the Entire house should be 98% gutted clean down to the basement and from there we start taking down the chimney's to have them complete by November 19th. (that's shooting long)

The clean up process of dusting down the walls, removing the slat board nails and sweeping everything so it's free of the black soot dirt, blow in insulation, and all around dirt should be finished before the 26th of November. After that we start Putting her back together again. So December we're hoping to have as the Month of adding Pex, wiring, insulation, new sub floor, and drywall.

Here's hoping we stay on task and schedule,
Mallow 

A Kitchen look we BOTH agree on!

Okay with the purchase of a dishwasher and the months prior to buying the house I've been going through the net searching for kitchens. TONS of them. The amount of pictures I could post would take forever to go through. By sheer luck and accident I found the final kitchen.

It's not my pretty blue one that I keep posting, however I am allowed to keep the door and window look from the blue one. Of all places I found it at IKEA, what Einy and I colofully call the junk store; Because most of the things we found when we were there were made of particle board and "fall apart" material. So Kudos to you IKEA despite your prior fail of catching Einy's favor you have succeded in winning us both over in the design department.

We both agreed on the style of it not the set up but the look.

Ikea Kitchen style

Love how it's organized inside the drawers.

Organize it! Perfect for inside those drawers and much cheaper than most places I've come across.

First Bought Appliance

Einy was sent to stop at Lowes after work to pick up a new trashcan for us to use in moving blown in insulation out to the dumpster. In the process of browsing around he found a 900$ dishwasher on clearance because the customer didn't like it for 450.00$. We went back and picked it up tonight and it's currently sitting in our apartments basement. It's stainless steel inside and out, I'm looking forward to using it.

Here's some professional shots of what it looks like inside and out.

**Also we've found that the boards surrounding the exterior walls are 2x4 and not 2x6 therefore our request for faced R-19 has changed to faced R-13.

Future Memo Money Saving and a Root Cellar

Ok so while I was looking through ideas on how to make the most of a small house one piece of it kept coming back into my head of what to do with it. I believe I found my answer. Root Cellar

Under the porch is hollow with a dirt floor

On the Left, see the cursive mg? Then there's a gray square painted
with more cursive text? That's the hobbit sized inner door to lead out
under the porch.

I think that I'll turn it into a root cellar. Dig the bottom out of it a little more and then place a new door on the inside that's insulated to keep the heat from the wood burning stove out of the room. I'll need shelves in it, and a thermometer for temp and humidity. While searching the net for Root Cellar ideas and Basement Root Cellars I found this page Floyd County In View that not only lays it out straight, but gives all the temperature and humidity information needed in one go.

This will help us out immensely in cutting back on the food cost at the store. Especially if we can get canning and what not down to a more patterned science.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~**Money Saving**~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Two major items that get used daily and the most in just about any house hold is Dishwasher detergent and Laundry detergent. I found the blog Being Creative to Keep my Sanity with some bulk mixes that produce excellent results. Her laundry Detergent she made in July she spent 20$'s making it and it ran out in March. 9 months of Laundry for 20$ I'm in. 

Follow the links in blue to their instructions on making them. My next search is for ever lasting cat litter. :)

Demolition Progress

Here's the latest pictures of the house and what all we've uncovered and accomplished so far. One dumpster is completely full, we're going to need at least one to two more to finish the job.

Looking inside the house now from Front Door
the window is the one from the small red room.

Further into the house same picture, the flash
picked up the amount of dust flying around.

Looking into the living room from just inside the house
the living room is through that doorway on the right.
Mallow took out all the paneling in it today.

Inside the house looking into the bedroom. Yes, we eliminated two full
walls. Studs included and as you can see we uncovered the chimney
and started to demo it as well.

Once the dust calmed down and I took the flash off this is
standing in the once tiny hallway looking into the bedroom. The two
white walls (front and left) are now gone as well.)

Inside the bedroom standing in the small room. You'll see the ladder
if you look straight through it that wall with the pink insulation is
now cleaned out as well and gutted. and all the dust and insulation is
swept off the wall studs as well.

What the sub floor looks like with all the walls down etc. Yes, we sweep
and clean up as we go to keep it nice for the next time we come to work.

Showing around the door, this too was eliminated after I took the
picture all the way up to the ceiling. You can also see the full dumpster.

All this is now gone apart from the ceiling that is left in both rooms.

Standing in the bedroom looking into the wall that leads into the living room
A door that was hidden and studs that were placed in improperly. The gray
pile of fluff is blown in insulation. (HATE that JUNK!!) This wall will come down
with the next dumpster once we get the ceilings taken down in this area.

Almost full dumpster, we finished filling it up today.

Another picture a little later after we took the drywall off, the red is
heavy plaster.

Another shot.

That's all for now.

Thanks, Mallow

Awesome hidden idea

Seriously, would this not be cool to have as the doorway to the bedroom? The house is small the back of the door will be utilized as shelf space and when you open it, it goes to the bedroom totally hidden and private when you have guests over.

Einy said no and that it was a stupid idea. Too bad that he's not the only person I can look to, to use a saw. :)

Porch design! (memo for future)

This isn't going to happen till we're completely finished with the house but there's no reason why I can't leave myself a memo for it. As you can see the front porch is going to need tore off and redone. I have yet to figure out the new style I want the front entry to look like however I found a Cure for the drab cement flooring.

This is a set of Stencils and paint used on top
of a plain cement porch. While the colors aren't
the greatest I did in fact love the way it looks like
a rug.

The site you can look at is here for an interior decorators show of two porch floors in her Gallery section. The stencils are a one time use option and cost about $100-250. There are plenty of cheaper stencil options out there it's just finding the right ones to mimic what I like. Doesn't hurt to use it as a pattern guide though ;)

Promised Advanced Plan

And here is the advanced Plan that is looking very much to be the final draft of the house and a more detailed version of the final product. I'm excited over it and I can't wait till it's all complete.

H.A. #4

So maybe someone with a water dept. background can help us out here. We need guidance on how to do the sewage system. Because:

I do believe that what we are staring at is what used to be the washer line that also went into the sewer line We don't know as this is the ONE area we're not 100% schooled in, sewer and water lines connected to the city line. So if anyone would like to link us to where we have to go and what we need to know to get this line put in and done properly please let us know.

We know where the sewage line is that connects to the city but we don't know where anything is in the house. We wouldn't be surprised if we have to rent a ditch digger and jack hammer to have it put in properly because the last thing we want is for it to be the dead of winter and having to deal with an issue.

New Floor Plan to conserve space

This is a really ROUGH idea of the new plan Einy has the better one on his PC which I'll get and post up once he comes home. But for now you get to deal with my Epic MSpaint skills.

The Front Door will be moved closer to the current living room window (which means we'll have to extend the porch by a foot or so), allowing us to take the once tiny foyer area and turn it into a stairwell straight to the basement. The chimney is just a stove pipe connected to a cast iron wood stove in the basement. The closet is the coat closet for when guests are over there is a place to put their belongings as well as shoes and what not. The Laundry room has moved from being a seperate entity to one with the bathroom so there is no feeling of cramped space involved.

The Kitchen design is pretty much remaining as is, only we're going to widen it about 2-3 feet to give us a better walk way to make a Galley kitchen with it and the Dining room may get double French doors at the end to allow large furniture to be moved easily inside and out of the home, instead of a single door.



The Flooring in this Photo I believe will be throughout the house.



The Bathroom's concept is going to be based off of two looks.

The Sink, the Mirror, and the Possible lighting. Granted
the house is nowhere near big enough for this type of
layout. But, in small homes everything will have a space and
function to it. So there will be wardrobes for towels and suppiles
A possible vanity and the Sink will be like this one but with a faucet
high enough to wash hair in when needed for a fast fix and go.

The second bathroom pictures here isn't necessairly how it's going to look. But more of concept based. It's a walk in shower. Meaning you don't have to navigate up over a tub rim to get in or out and instead of shower curtain we'll probably go with clear glass with no tracks so it's easy to clean.

Instead of the doors on the one side make it a window
with a privacy screen over it but to also let in light.

Also we got the first dumpster in and filling it up. Here's a really messy demo (MSpaint style) of what all we did so far. Einy tears it down and I pick it up and throw it out in the dumpster. I'm the shovel and clean up girl so it goes faster.  Also Red= Demolished or Gone the two inner walls are completely gone studs and all.
The lines across the hall area indicates the ceiling is "demolished" as well.

Ideas and Suggestions on how to fix an uneven floor...

Since we've pulled up the carpet and stepped around the place we've noticed the floor is uneven but we have huge floor joists that are three inches thick or so. So I'm looking for information on how to fix an uneven floor as best as I can because I am not dealing with carpet ever again.

http://boards.hgtvpro.com/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/2601029981/m/7631025722

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/oldhouse/msg0912363018504.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_4474359_fix-uneven-subfloor.html

http://triadhomes.news-record.com/content/2009/02/13/article/how_do_i_level_an_uneven_floor

If anyone knows of anybody who is knowledgeable in it to let us know the proper steps that would be good too.

H.A. #1-3

For areas that are going to be more work, and mess for us I'm going to title H.A. (half-@$$ing). Which means that the prior owners didn't do something correctly and therefore we have to fix it.

H.A. #1

The THICK double wall to the kitchen. Plus the fact that there's
a 3 inch step up into it because they didn't dig down deep
enough to make it even with the foundation.

 H.A #2

The Additions (Kitchen and Bathrooms) Foundations!
Someone must have been smoking something pretty damn
heavy when they built these because the bathroom floor
is ROTTED completely through that I can put my foot down
in one stomp and break through the floor board to the dirt.
And the kitchen floor ....

You know what, I'll just be nice and inform you now, the additions cannot be salvaged to work with and all the floors need tore up and the foundation floor joists need evened up. With knowing this cost, it's going to take every penny I have to rent and buy the few tools we need (Einy already had a slew of them when we met and has accumulated many over the years together), the replacement wood, Sub floor, and pieces to fix the foundation. Needless to day a De-humidifier is going to be purchased to dry the place out.

We can't keep ANY of the sub flooring for two reasons, Number 1 it's full of random cut holes covered with tin and Number 2 thanks to the last owner, her dogs pi$$ has embedded itself into them. Ew. So those have little choice but to leave. However, the few boards that I can get ahold of I may keep for Halloween outdoor coffin craft purposes.


Also, we confirmed that there are in fact TWO fireplaces in the home. One in the Living Room and One in the bedroom. We started the Bedroom wall demolition by the closet and sure enough we found the chimney and fireplace. But that's not the best part. (sarcasm) The prior individuals that "remodeled" the house felt it necessary to half demo the fireplace. They sealed it up with brick and then went up to the roof knocking down the old chimney and throwing it down into the fireplace. BUT they did not finish the job and $500 says that behind the siding of the house is nothing but brick wall. No build out they just slapped siding over it.

Hidden yellow brick fireplaces in both rooms Living rooms
Still fully in tact, chimney still coming out of roof.
Bedroom half demolished but no outer wall over top of brick
just slapped up siding.

Getting this home livable in 60days is going to sound nearly impossible. Because the bathrooms shot, the exterior is a fraud, the interior and updates were done by retards and I have earned an entirely new level of respect for contractors and the individuals working for them that deal with demolition and finding this mess of shinnanary.  However, once we get the dumpster and we spend more than 2-3 hours there, more like 8-12 hours, I'm sure we'll find it much easier to deal with once the walls are down.

Einy said he didn't want to deal with the exterior of the house just yet. but judging from what we have to work with and do he's not going to get much of a choice.

Here's praying for a SNOWY Winter, and not a bitter cold icy one.
Mallow

Gang Territory aka the Basement

Hello again people here are the pictures of the basement, we found that reason the floorboards are uneven is that the foundation only holds the front half and part of the sides it does not extend all the way back under the floor boards entirely of the original house. And from what I can tell the additions (kitchen and bathroom) aren't even on block, they're on the ground. I hate people that half ass things.

Standing outside looking straight into the basement

Standing outside looking in towards the right of the basement.

One step inside and to the left the wall and where the local
"mafia" broke in before we bought it and cleaned the furnace
and everything they could get ahold of out.

Again, still looking to the left under the house. As you can see
the water leaking in because of it raining, however there are no
gutters working or french drains on that side, so that will be an
easy enough fix for a dry basement.

As you can see the foundation isn't completely under the entire
house and does this strange little L shape.

What back inside that L looks like.

Einy getting in on the action on the right and me crouched
down and taking a picture of right inside the basement again
And where the delinquents left the ventilation system.

Completely inside the basement turned around and towards the
right inside the door. You can also see the outdated fuse
panel.

Close up of the wall straight inside and the right side of the
basement. Insulation, broken brick and dirt MESS.

The state of the floor. Looking for tips or equipment to rent
on how to grind it down before we re pour to make it even again.

Shot of water on floor

Close up of the wall where the leaks are coming in.
Nothing that fixed gutters and french drain can't repair.
Considering it's been raining for 3 days and that's all the wet
it is.

Edison's Fuse box. wtf, how did this pass inspection?!

INSIDE that broken, open hole cubby straight across from the
basement door. That is what lies under the rest of the living room floor.