There was some serious demolition going on at the Duck the last few days. .... ceilings coming down.
And ..... drum roll, please......the GOOD thing is.....my electricity is now all run and i am wired up. i just need to call the electric company to come back out and put my meter back in and hook me up to the pole. Rick spent days sitting on the milk crate....wiring in all the little boxes. the tedious part of the job.
On Tuesday...while Rick was wiring up....i worked on taking down some ceiling in the dining room. i got just a few feet of slats down. tough, nasty, dirty work.
On Wednesday i worked on the living room ceiling. pulling down slats again and insulation. i just got a corner of it done. i was up on the ladder and found piles of insulation up in that corner that was just left up there. about 6 long strips. i guess when they were finished with the job they just left the excess piled up there.
I saw the teenage boy that lives next door - Amos- and asked him if he wanted to work....and he agreed. this ceiling demolition is for the young...LOL. so, he came over after school on Thursday and within an hour....had the ceiling in the back room down. give a boy a hammer and he has fun. LOL
Then he moved to the office and got that ceiling down, too. i just need to go up and clean up the edges a bit and take out the nails.
Here is my office ceiling...all on the floor. it takes a lot of bags to pick up all that crap.
Then his mom, Tammy, came over...i guess to check on Amos and make sure i wasn't treating him bad. hahahaha she said she wasn't doing anything and she could help, too. so i gave her a hammer and she took out the rest of the living room ceiling that i started. she is little but she is fearless and tough.
Here's my living room ceiling....on the floor.
Tammy said she was off work Friday and would come out and help me some more. gee....i like neighbors willing to help you work. so, Friday she took out the dining room ceiling....and then cleaned off all the nails from the rafters in two rooms. it was a long, dirty 6 hour day for her.
She helped me bag up all the insulation and plaster and cart it out to the garage. there are about 60 bags there....awaiting the next dumpster.
And i have learned to bundle the slats up instead of just throwing them in a pile. it is much easer to get them into the dumpster when it is time. so i bundled up all these slats and piled them neatly in a corner of the garage.
On Saturday i took a break for the morning and my sis and i went to the Salvation Army thrift store to see if there was anything interesting there. i scored this tv cabinet for $50. it is in great shape.
I am going to replace that back with another piece of wood without holes in it. there won't be a tv in here....probably quilts or something.
All in all....it was a great few days of demolition. i'll be down again this weekend for more fun. i have 2 more ceilings to take down...the bedroom and the kitchen. then i believe the major demolition is completed and i can start rebuilding and prettying up. new insulation...drywall....lights...ceiling fans.....fun stuff.
Although i do need some pipes for plumbing, too. i belive that should be next.
So much to do...so little money. hahahahaha but it will all get done...sooner or
Later
And ..... drum roll, please......the GOOD thing is.....my electricity is now all run and i am wired up. i just need to call the electric company to come back out and put my meter back in and hook me up to the pole. Rick spent days sitting on the milk crate....wiring in all the little boxes. the tedious part of the job.
On Tuesday...while Rick was wiring up....i worked on taking down some ceiling in the dining room. i got just a few feet of slats down. tough, nasty, dirty work.
On Wednesday i worked on the living room ceiling. pulling down slats again and insulation. i just got a corner of it done. i was up on the ladder and found piles of insulation up in that corner that was just left up there. about 6 long strips. i guess when they were finished with the job they just left the excess piled up there.
I saw the teenage boy that lives next door - Amos- and asked him if he wanted to work....and he agreed. this ceiling demolition is for the young...LOL. so, he came over after school on Thursday and within an hour....had the ceiling in the back room down. give a boy a hammer and he has fun. LOL
Then he moved to the office and got that ceiling down, too. i just need to go up and clean up the edges a bit and take out the nails.
Here is my office ceiling...all on the floor. it takes a lot of bags to pick up all that crap.
Then his mom, Tammy, came over...i guess to check on Amos and make sure i wasn't treating him bad. hahahaha she said she wasn't doing anything and she could help, too. so i gave her a hammer and she took out the rest of the living room ceiling that i started. she is little but she is fearless and tough.
Here's my living room ceiling....on the floor.
Tammy said she was off work Friday and would come out and help me some more. gee....i like neighbors willing to help you work. so, Friday she took out the dining room ceiling....and then cleaned off all the nails from the rafters in two rooms. it was a long, dirty 6 hour day for her.
She helped me bag up all the insulation and plaster and cart it out to the garage. there are about 60 bags there....awaiting the next dumpster.
And i have learned to bundle the slats up instead of just throwing them in a pile. it is much easer to get them into the dumpster when it is time. so i bundled up all these slats and piled them neatly in a corner of the garage.
On Saturday i took a break for the morning and my sis and i went to the Salvation Army thrift store to see if there was anything interesting there. i scored this tv cabinet for $50. it is in great shape.
I am going to replace that back with another piece of wood without holes in it. there won't be a tv in here....probably quilts or something.
All in all....it was a great few days of demolition. i'll be down again this weekend for more fun. i have 2 more ceilings to take down...the bedroom and the kitchen. then i believe the major demolition is completed and i can start rebuilding and prettying up. new insulation...drywall....lights...ceiling fans.....fun stuff.
Although i do need some pipes for plumbing, too. i belive that should be next.
So much to do...so little money. hahahahaha but it will all get done...sooner or
Later
2 comments:
That's a great neighbor! I'd be making her a quilt really fast.
Beautiful cabinet!! You could replace the back with beadboard. Looks awesome!
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