Our weekend was spent doing a lot of labor lol.
My husband, the girls, one of their friends, one of my friends, and I spent about four hours pulling some of the house apart. We pulled up the old vinyl flooring, removed the accessibility grab bars in the bathroom that had been installed for the previous owner’s parents, and started taking down chair rail throughout the house.
We took everything down using a large crowbar and a smaller crowbar piece ( I learned the hard way about pushing too hard and put a hole in the drywall).
Then came the carpet…
I never really thought or knew about what was hiding under carpet and now I know. On the surface everything looked great and wonderful-we even considered not changing the carpet in one of the rooms, but that quickly changed after seeing what was underneath. There were years of dog accidents hiding underneath. My friend who helped couldn’t keep it together and left the room gagging. That was probably the worst part of the weekend.
We were going to remove the wall paneling ourselves, too. That plan changed after we pulled back a section and found some very dark insulation along with what looked suspiciously like mouse droppings. That was enough for me to decide that we will just pay the contractor to take that part down for us.
Thankfully, it’s only a small section on about three walls, so our contractor can take care of that part.
Another big accomplishment this weekend is that we got the roof replaced on the metal shop. It’s now nice, shiny, and beautiful—but there is a lot to renovate inside of the shop. This replacement we did not do our ourselves. We actually used one of our good friends who has an amazing company CG roofing.
