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The guys did a bang-up job cleaning up, then proceeded to tear down the wall between the office and the front hallway. Note the dangling electrical outlet... |
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| I find these "orphans" kind of oddly fascinating. Sheila said it was like modern art. |
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Kind of like the heating vent in the now open air living room, which is clearly contributing heavily to global warming. |
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This is what the living room looked like Wednesday afternoon. The SIPs roof panel installation didn't happen on Wednesday, so the guys spent about two full hours tarping the house because the rain was supposed to start late Wednesday night and continue pretty much until early Friday. |
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| I woke up to find this over the courtyard garden. |
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| This is the one I thought would burst. |
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This is the one that did. I'll never forget the sound - it was like an amazingly loud fffwwwwoooOOOOOSH!!! After shrieking and running in many small circles while flailing my hands, unfortunately in front of Sheila before she left for school, I started madly raising computer equipment and power strips off the floor of our new kitchen/dining room/office in the basement, directly below the now flooded living room. Water started streaming down the walls, out of the heating vents and light fixtures, and onto the printer and scanner. Amazingly, I think only the ceiling in the basement room took damage. The guys swept in and spent hours mopping, wet-vaccing (sp?), and re-structuring the tarp supports. So that's enough about Thursday. |
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...that this is precisely how I would react to a water-filled tarp bursting in the living room. Oh, and I shrieked like a little girl, too. |
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On Tuesday, by mid-morning, they had cut back the rafters across the 'front door side' (dining room, kitchen, front hallway and office). |
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| The living room outer wall and roof is being removed up to the steel beam. |
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| By mid-afternoon, a fair amount of the living room roof and wall was gone. |
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The blur of activity is all in preparation to install the SIPs (Structural Insulated Panels) roof panels, arriving here. The installation is to happen on Wednesday before it starts raining again, early Thursday... |
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| They finished quite late, so at the end of the day we had a carport full of SIPs... |
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| An open air living room... |
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| And a new sign! |
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On Monday, they brought in the 25' steel I-beam. Purely manpower - no power equipment. I don't even know how many people it took. I was too scared to watch. Here it is swinging from a winch, of sorts. |
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| And here's the other end. |
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| At the end of the day, it's in. Looking toward the fireplace... |
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| ...and looking toward the basement stairwell. |
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| They also started sealing off the 'front door side' of each room, as they need to cut into the ceiling and rafters where they'll place the new roof panels. |
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| They started prepping the kitchen... |
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| ...and the hallway. |
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| This is the dining room before the move... |
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| ...and this is the dining room after. |
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| This is the outer wall of the kitchen before the move... |
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...and this is the kitchen after. And if you think that moving furniture is stressful for us, that's nothing compared to how much it stressed out Reuben. |
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| This is the front hallway before the move... |
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| ...and the hallway after. |
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| I missed getting a 'before the move' picture of the office. This is after. |
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| And this is the basement before... |
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...and this is the basement after. Welcome to our new basement/dining room/kitchen/office. Time for a nice nap. |
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On Saturday, they nailed boards onto both sides of the 25' steel I-beam. They're scheduled to bring this into the living room on Monday. |
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| They also worked on framing the 'back door side' wall. |
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They put Tyvek over the new dining room side wall, and cut a small hole where the new window will be, so we can do that imitation of Jack Nicholson from The Shining in time for Halloween. "Iiiiiiit's Johnnyyyyyyyyy...." |
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This is a slightly better view of the difference between our existing vinyl siding (right) and the original redwood-painted yellow siding (left). |
