APRIL 15th !!! @#^%$@#

Another before and almost after. Still need some molding, paint, and a welder plug...

Time for pegboard, cabinets, shelves, and LOTS of tool sorting. I still have tools I never unpacked because I was waiting until I had someplace put them :-)

Before and after:

All of the drywall is up except for the entry door area where I need to box in the vent pipe first. I'll get to mudding this weekend. I had a bit of a delay because a postal worker had a delivery for me and left the garage door open! 30 mile anhour winds @ 10 degrees for about 5 hours. My cozy 60 deg. garage was 21 degrees when I got home, and it took 2 days to come back up to temp. Needless to say, the door remains locked now. By the way, the Uhaul blanket is covering some really cold, leaky, single pane windows that I intend on replacing, along with the garage door.

Corner: After
Corner: Before
Last Corner to be finished. I''ll be putting walls around the vent and running plumbing for a sink first.

This has been my daily commute for the last week. The apartment in Parish has 10 feet!

The garage/shop is starting to come together. When I started the garage it was 29 degrees in the garage. Last night, it was in the teens outside and 60 inside :-)

Before and almost after...I started by putting up some ceiling joists ( since there were none)
Added some baffels...
Removed a door, and added lots of outlets ( 120 and 240 )...Took the previous owner's fridge to the dump ;-)

Created an ugly R6, or so, garage door for 25 bucks.
Added some padding...bought a gun and rented a drywall lift...


And voila, well almost. A couple more eveneings of rockin and muddin and I should be in good shape.
Once again, I can't really get a good wide angle shot, but it's bigger than it looks (18' x 22'), now that it is getting organized.

Well, the first thing to do is work on the garage, since I need a place to work, and possibly live, when I demo the rest of the house. The wiring needs a major upgrade, so I am installing a 100 amp subpanel in the garage to power my tools and lights. The existing wiring is dangerous at best. Then I will insulate the garage for winter. However there is no ceiling and the garage was added on to the existing house. You can see that they never bothered to take off the siding. So, first the siding has to come off, then a ceiling has to go up, then insulation and sheetrock...


Now that's some nice wiring. They had power running from the basement to the garage, then they ran power to the lights in the basement... from the garage?. Good thing I had a tester!




Lovely 4x4 construction ...

Once the siding was removed I had a view into the attic above the bathroom. Just what I thought, old wood, spider webs, and beer cans...
The first load of "house" to go to the dump :-)
Out with the old and in with the new... ceiling joists.

Flip That House, well maybe...

OK. since I just don't have enough to do... I bought this small cape in Cicero. It's much bigger than it looks.. WRONG! This one looks way smaller on the inside and it looks tiny from the outside. It's also really ugly inside, however, lots of demolition and a small ( or big) addition could do wonders. I think I'll save this one until winter...

Summary:

1. Roof is only 4 weeks old, but it will probably be ripped up to add shed and gable dormers, and see what he covered up.
2. Foundation wall is a combination of old limestone and new cinder block... and it is sinking.
3. Floors, and therefore walls, lean to the center and back of the house by almost 10 inches in certain areas.
3. ZERO insulation anywhere.
4. I think there are 6 outlets total in the house. ( un-grounded)
5. The one, and only, bathroom looks like an outhouse nailed to the outside of the house.
6. The paved driveway looks like gravel at one end becuase it is in such bad shape.
7. The house is completely built from used lumber, probably the wood from the barn that was here originally. The walls are 4x4's, the floor joist are logs in some areas, with bark!
8. The sheetrock used is the first ever made. It looks like it was made in the kithcen with a rolling pin.

On a good note:

The garage is large, the property is 100'x300' in an area that everyone wants to live and houses this size (in much better shape) are selling for 100k.

Click on any of these images for a larger view...


Here are some panoramas I stiched together to get a feel for the house and the lot
The street to the right has some new homes in a much higher price range ( see bottom pic), so I don't think I need to worry about doing too much rehab and becoming the biggest house on the block. By the way, it is the smallest now :-)It will be a shame to remove all of this fine wood paneling, and the siding being used for the walls in the living room, but it has to go!Ahhh yes, the master bedroom. The walls and ceiling are painted 1/4" masonite . And the purple curtains cover windows ytou can't see out of because of all of the moisture IN them.
This is the street that borders one side of the property $-)

A quick photoshop ( very quick ). No critique of style, design, or quality!