For areas that are going to be more work, and mess for us I'm going to title H.A. (half-@$$ing). Which means that the prior owners didn't do something correctly and therefore we have to fix it.
H.A. #1
H.A #2
You know what, I'll just be nice and inform you now, the additions cannot be salvaged to work with and all the floors need tore up and the foundation floor joists need evened up. With knowing this cost, it's going to take every penny I have to rent and buy the few tools we need (Einy already had a slew of them when we met and has accumulated many over the years together), the replacement wood, Sub floor, and pieces to fix the foundation. Needless to day a De-humidifier is going to be purchased to dry the place out.
We can't keep ANY of the sub flooring for two reasons, Number 1 it's full of random cut holes covered with tin and Number 2 thanks to the last owner, her dogs pi$$ 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.
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
H.A. #1
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| 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
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| 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 .... |
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.
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| 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
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