Remodeling Update

Yesterday Stan worked on rebuilding the flooring structure where the wood was not as structurally sound as it needs to be. While the tub we took out was probably ten times heavier than the tub that we are replacing it with the structure is now probably now ten times stronger than it was before.

While Stan was busy in the house I was outside raking; I raked the back yard two times because it was windy enough and the leaves were wet from the rain during the night that they just kept coming down.

Later on in the afternoon I raked the front lawn, and there were quite a few more leaves then there usually were. By the time I got around to raking the front lawn the wind had died down and when I finished there were no more leaves that fell.

This morning when I got up there were only a handful of leaves on the front lawn so I did not even bother to rake the front lawn this morning but I did rake the back lawn and when I finished the lawn still looked pretty good unlike yesterday.

When Stan got here he finished with the floor support and when we finished that we put down the tongue and groove plywood. Once we had that screwed down we finished pulling down the rest of the dry wall from the walls and ceiling.

I decided that starting fresh would be easier and provide a better surface with which to work. As it turned out in some areas there were five layers of really thin sheet rock and in some areas there was firtex under the dry wall so I am glad that I decided to go to the studs and put all new dry wall up.

I finally ran out of steam and so tomorrow morning I will have to carry out all the small pieces of dry wall and sheet rock. Another reason that I wanted to remove all the dry wall and sheet rock was so that we could put the outlets, switches and lights where we want them.

Well, this should catch everyone up to date with the remodeling activities. I think tomorrow after cleaning up the mess on the floor we will re-route the wiring and start building the area where the tub is going to go.