Single Tree Way House: Weeks 3&4

In the last two weeks we have been finishing up the demo and have begun putting the house back together.  I was out of town for all of week 3, so this left Brandon to do all of the work.

Week 3:
Since we are homeschooling right now, and not tied down to a school schedule, the kids and I were able to take the week off and go visit my family.  Brandon, however, stayed here to work and also did some work on the house.  While I was gone, he was supposed to work on electrical and plumbing in the kitchen.  Instead, he decided to take down the walls and put up beams by himself.  It looks great and he did a great job.  I'm not sure how he was able to do it all by himself,  but I don't think it was very good for his back.  He also took down the drywall between the front living room and back living room.

 




Week 4:
Now back from our little trip, it's time to get back to work.  I spent the week finishing up cleaning the floors.  This involves getting the carpet tack strips up from all around the edges of each room,  pulling up all of the staples from the carpet pads, and sweeping and vacuuming all of the debris from the floors.  I do all of these things to get the house ready to lay our new floors.  It also makes it safer for the kids to walk around the house.  This is the part of the job that is monotonous and seems never ending. I have discovered this time around that the large crowbar is my favorite tool when it comes to tack strip and staple removal.  Also this week, I painted two rooms and started working on wallpaper glue removal.  The wallpaper came off very easily, but the  glue is not.  I know what I'll be doing next week.