laundry room day 2

getting ready for the tile!
we decided to use tile in the laundry room. we came across a great deal at the habitat restore and found several cases of tile. or we may use some tile leftover from other homes we have rehabbed. which ever we decide to use, we know we need a sturdy sub floor! nick spent a long time painstakingly leveling a previously very un-level floor. he then put down a layer of heavy duty sub floor. the floor already has never felt so sturdy. go nick! now, for the tile backer board.

(sorry for the not so stellar picture, i took it this morning after we had dragged the refrigerator into the room friday night and then back out again today).
you may remember that when we replaced the roof on the house we also raised the roof in this room to be as tall as the rest of the house. with the room empty, we  decided now would also be a good idea to go ahead and rip out that low ceiling. here are some pictures of the roof lines, before and after:

before

after

and this is the laundry room as it was, in all its glory!

front porch roof

we're almost done with the framing of the roof!

holy schnikees!!!! what a mess!

front of house before

after the front porch roof was demolished

bye bye vinyl vents!
we will replace you with something much lovelier later.

who lives in there???
hmmmm....you need to find a new home buddy.
this house is ours!

rebuilding the roof over the front porch

and then the unexpected....

so its pretty dramatic to be in the house when the demolition begins. its loud. its really messy. you find walls that might fall off.  if your roof is as bad as ours, the ceilings start to crack in other rooms, sag behind ceiling wallpaper and crumbles in (thank goodness for that paneling hammered to the ceiling in my closet! otherwise my clothes would've been plasterized). eventually you get a little numb to it (as best you can) and just keep plugging along. you take a shower at the end of a long day, pop open a beer, start some that laundry and then walk around the house to snap some pictures of a hard days work... but then, the unexpected happens.

melted dryer plug

melted receptacle

close up

another close up

flames up the wall!

nick capped off the wire from the wall

our drier had a weird smell for a long time. we checked the dryer tube and the vent, they were clean. we were running the dryer on low heat. it didn't seem to help much with the smell. then tonight, nick smelled smoke. he knew it was from the dryer but hoped it was from the pizza cooking in the oven. then he followed the smell to find flames shooting out of the dryer receptacle.  he unplugged the dryer. (NOTE TO SELF: BUY FIRE EXTINGUISHER!!!!!)

the fire never progressed. nick capped the wire. the next morning our electrician came over and replaced the wire and the receptacle. the explanation? 

something called arc-ing. nick could tell you what the means...now,  the dryer works fine!

few more night shots:

plastic in the living zone. the only thing separating us from the twilight zone!

future living room, all cleaned up for today

new beam where the corner of the house was rotten and the wall was separating

hello tarp! thank you for being the cocoon that separates us from the elements

the sky up above. post tarp, pre-plywood

future dining room, new beams holding up the rotten corner

oh, yes. that's where the rain came in. this was the day of the inside demolition remember? well, the roof was completely framed. the plywood was mostly up. the small remainder was covered in tarp. but it wasn't enough to stop the rain. 

where the plywood ends and the tarp begins. new framing looking good!

and so tomorrow begins a new day!

rainy day...

looks like we're going to be working inside!

 ok i wasn't working inside... i was in beaufort. yep, i left nick all alone to work on the house while i went back to to fire some pots and  pack up the studio. it rained. so the focus was on on demoing the inside. this is what it looked like.  

dining room now

october

dining room wednesday

dining room in october

fireplace in dining room, super cool brick underneath the plaster...BONUS!!!!

second bathroom, debris

october

dining room, another view

den looking towards entry

rotten as all get out

this was the corner of the house where the ceiling caved in during the roof demolition. this was also where the roof moved when you walked on it. even more fun? this is where after we demoed the drop ceiling we notice a crack where the ceiling and the wall met that was "slightly" gaping. this gap eventually revealed the wall seperating from the house. notice the very rotten beams... one of them had rotted down to 4 feet tall. 

(don't worry its fixed now!)

covering the window and the fireplace in the den

same room, october (can't see the fireplace very well though)

breaking it down, this action shot was right in the middle of demo

tarp over front porch and den/entryway after ceiling demo.
hi future roof! just some joists for now....

new joists

roof:second half of deconstruction

where old meets new

back of the house, looking into backyard

old wood...and a foot.

after removing the old wood. starting to remove old frame work.

trash pile!!! this will later be separated into recyclable waste and trash.
 metal and non pressure treated wood will be recycled.