Working on the House
So having bought the house, and odorfix, gotten rid of the cat urine odor, and a cooktop, and a countertop, installed the cooktop in the countertop atop of a frame made of scavenged 2x4's from the master bedroom, and gotten the beds in, installed a scrub sink in the kitchen, patched up the plumbing so it doesn't leak in any disastrous way (unterminated/open pipes, cracked pipes, leaking joints, no shutoff for hot water, tub faucet misassembled, tub drain missing shoe washer, showerhead elbow replaced with a real showerhead elbow, tank flapper and valve replaced), we moved into the house with a paycheck paying for a pile of food and some furniture like a kitchen shelf metro rack.
After that I built a similar frame for the wall oven (but haven't gotten it wired in yet), got all the furniture into the house, installed a couple cabinets and shelves on the wall of the kitchen, tore out the paneling, interior walls, shower, and floors of the master bedroom (the top layer was sawdust imbued with cat piss, the sublayer was 3/8ths inch plywood, woefully inadequate and water damaged, the shower pan was broken too). So then I replaced the water damaged/rotted floor joists. Then I got another paycheck and used it to buy 9 4x8 sheets of subflooring and some 2x8's which I used to rebuild the floor joists in the master bedroom. Then finally this weekend my friend Ross came over and we installed the subfloor into the master bedroom with glue and deck screws, so now we have a solid floor to build on.
Next paycheck I'll see if I can buy the joists required to frame out the bathroom. I'll also be putting together my computer so I can sketchup the bathroom design I have in mind.
Keeping books on the whole thing too to track how much money comes in and goes out. Whee.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgHaS_DhHqY0dHR2aXM1a0NoZnBMQ2owSnp5ZGtuWGc
After that I built a similar frame for the wall oven (but haven't gotten it wired in yet), got all the furniture into the house, installed a couple cabinets and shelves on the wall of the kitchen, tore out the paneling, interior walls, shower, and floors of the master bedroom (the top layer was sawdust imbued with cat piss, the sublayer was 3/8ths inch plywood, woefully inadequate and water damaged, the shower pan was broken too). So then I replaced the water damaged/rotted floor joists. Then I got another paycheck and used it to buy 9 4x8 sheets of subflooring and some 2x8's which I used to rebuild the floor joists in the master bedroom. Then finally this weekend my friend Ross came over and we installed the subfloor into the master bedroom with glue and deck screws, so now we have a solid floor to build on.
Next paycheck I'll see if I can buy the joists required to frame out the bathroom. I'll also be putting together my computer so I can sketchup the bathroom design I have in mind.
Keeping books on the whole thing too to track how much money comes in and goes out. Whee.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgHaS_DhHqY0dHR2aXM1a0NoZnBMQ2owSnp5ZGtuWGc