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the_siobhanAxel and I took a couple of days off work last week to do some painting and running around buying house stuff. Then we had a long weekend of sitting on our asses. It was great.
I also finally got around to uploading some of the pictures that have been sitting on my hard drive for the last 10 months.
Previous house pics are here and here.
This is a veiw of the top floor facing the back. We pretty much used it as storage space for the entire time we've lived in the house. The metal poles are holding up the new support beam. That hole on the left is the top of the stairs to the first floor.
The spot at the top of the stairs where the original bathroom used to live. I'm not sure if you can tell from this picture, but they had to cut holes in the beams to run the pipes. You know, the beams that hold up the top floor of the house. That got fixed.
Step One: Insulation and replacing the sub-flooring. It was so old it was brittle and cracked, and none of it was level.
The ground floor immediately under the new bathroom. The strange and convoluted world of plumbing.
The bathroom begins. Shower on the right, head on the left. No waiting.
While this was all going on we built a tunnel from the front door to the top floor out of plastic. Our access to the house was through the basement door.
It was a good plan but unfortunately the plumber ended up having to sink a new drain to the main line. So this was our basement for a while. Note that not only is this our only way into the house, but the door to the left is our only working bathroom, and the door in the back is our only working bedroom.
New windows!
New tile!
New fixtures!
New pipes!
New drywall!
New floor!
So these last two pictures are pretty much where we've been living for the last couple of months while the downstairs gets worked on. There are still a lot of things that need to be done (there is no barrier to prevent sleepy/drunk people from falling into the stairwell, just as an example.) But just being upstairs in the light and slightly-reduced dust has made the house feel so much more liveable.
I also finally got around to uploading some of the pictures that have been sitting on my hard drive for the last 10 months.
Previous house pics are here and here.
This is a veiw of the top floor facing the back. We pretty much used it as storage space for the entire time we've lived in the house. The metal poles are holding up the new support beam. That hole on the left is the top of the stairs to the first floor.
The spot at the top of the stairs where the original bathroom used to live. I'm not sure if you can tell from this picture, but they had to cut holes in the beams to run the pipes. You know, the beams that hold up the top floor of the house. That got fixed.
Step One: Insulation and replacing the sub-flooring. It was so old it was brittle and cracked, and none of it was level.
The ground floor immediately under the new bathroom. The strange and convoluted world of plumbing.
The bathroom begins. Shower on the right, head on the left. No waiting.
While this was all going on we built a tunnel from the front door to the top floor out of plastic. Our access to the house was through the basement door.
It was a good plan but unfortunately the plumber ended up having to sink a new drain to the main line. So this was our basement for a while. Note that not only is this our only way into the house, but the door to the left is our only working bathroom, and the door in the back is our only working bedroom.
New windows!
New tile!
New fixtures!
New pipes!
New drywall!
New floor!
So these last two pictures are pretty much where we've been living for the last couple of months while the downstairs gets worked on. There are still a lot of things that need to be done (there is no barrier to prevent sleepy/drunk people from falling into the stairwell, just as an example.) But just being upstairs in the light and slightly-reduced dust has made the house feel so much more liveable.
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Date: 2012-02-21 10:39 pm (UTC)Oddly, your pumping pipes are black PVC, whereas there they seem to use white PVC. I wonder why that is. Something to do with the cold.