EY MA! THERES WOOD UNDA THERE!

Well its been a couple days since my last update. Things are still moving right along.
The tub is in the bathroom now with all new pipes run. Unfortunately the man who did the plumbing cut one of the pipes that ran from the radiator and didn't plug the end of it. Well...now theres a giant puddle in my basement that just got bigger as the weekend went on. We put a bucket under where the drip was coming from but the bucket fills up within a few hours. This made me a little uneasy since it was dripping ONTO the washing machine and washing machine = plugs and plugs = electricity. Good times. The plumber was due back today to finish his mess. We are told the bathroom will be finalized on July 7th the latest. I really hope so. This nomad lifestyle is reallllllllly getting to me. I'm totally exhausted.

They are also starting the siding today. I know it will end up looking beautiful when its finished but we arent getting what we had originally wanted. We ARE getting what we wanted on the FRONT of the house though. So at least theres that. Of course what we wanted was going to cost 4x what we had budgeted for though....soooo....it is what it is. Next house...hah!

We also went to finalize our kitchen cabinets on Saturday. Its pretty much exactly what we wanted. Just not Ikea and I think we're better off without the Ikea. I have a feeling it would have been a total disaster. I have actually had nightmares about the cabinets falling off of the wall in the middle of the night. Eeek. One exciting thing though is that we can buy our appliances now that we know what size we have to get! 30" oven, 36" fridge, etc. Cant wait!!!! I just want to bake and cook.

Anyway...on Sunday Hugo and KP (my brother in-law) went over to the house to rip up the kitchen floor. There were 3 floors to rip up. The boys were there for at least 6 hours. It's amazing neither of them had a heart attack in this heat wave. The windows were closed since theres no screens, no A/C either. Just some standard floor fans blowing around hot air.

First was the icky vinyl (what is wrong with you people???? a giant piece of ugly vinyl? are you crazy??), then sticky tiles made of asbestos from the 40's (sweeeet), and then a plywood subfloor on top of a REAL WOOD FLOOR. Seriously, the wood floor had to have only been used in there for a couple of years. Under all of the glue from the subfloor (yes it was glued down to the real wood) it looks amazing. Cant wait to sand and stain that bad boy....just like new! See pictures of all of that....


I don't plan on going back out to the house until late this week. Thursday possibly. I hope to have some real good progress pictures by then.

Until next time!