This was the master bedroom as we found it. We took several things to the burn pile (mattresses, carpet, other burnable trash), a few things to the scrap metal yard (hangers, curtain rods), some things got moved to Susan Brummet's house in boxes, and we threw some things away. There is a Carhart style coverall that will fit Samuel & I for winter that I'm still washing to get the smoke smell out of. If I'm not successful by winter, it will just get burned. :(
In this photo, the subfloor along the far wall was replaced due to wood rotting fungus and water damage. Under the house, some repairs had already taken place (joists sistered with pressure treated wood) but we had Terminex do a Borate wood treatment to kill the fungus and put down a poly vapor barrier to limit the moisture under the house so that the new plywood subfloor wouldn't suffer the same fate. Charlie also cleaned
buckets of stuff out of the gutters, which was probably a major cause of the problem as well. Also here, the ceiling and walls were cleaned, primed, and painted. Charlie and Lisa also took all the nails out of the baseboards so that they could be reused.
Lisa, being an apprentice electrician, changes out light fixtures faster than most folks change out an empty toilet paper roll. Jerry Brummet (the previous homeowner) had worked for Fleetwood (the mobile home company) and had three ceiling fans that they got rid of, just sitting in boxes and brand new. (Two in the garage and one in the attic.) This is one of those fans. Lisa put her globes on it. New, clean, and moving air are definite upgrades to what was there before! Free is an added bonus!
We purchased 45 boxes of pre-finished rustic maple hardwood flooring--3/4 inches thick and 3.25 inch wide planks--from Lumber Liquidators. It was on special for $2.39 a square foot! While there were more discard boards in these boxes than their BellaWood, it was half the price and very well worth it. David really liked working with the wider planks in this house. We have 6 boxes left over (because David thought I was saying the house was 1800 square feet and 1100 of it needed wood floors, but I was saying that there was 1800 square feet under roof and 1100 living space with the rest as garage and utility room) so he actually bought enough to put wood in the kitchen, dining, and bath--well, if there weren't so many discard boards. We'll use the extra wood to do Shiphrah and Shiloh's bedroom.
In this photo, David is getting ready to finish the second closet.
A final photo with the baseboards, quarter round, doors and moldings~ taken from the hallway so we remember to come back and put the threshold piece from the hallway into this room.
And lest the insurance company think the home is still vacant, here's one of Lisa's photos of her stuff moved in that she's shared on Facebook!
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