Day 4 was the Monday after closing. Marc and I worked at our day-jobs at mom’s house, where she has so graciously allowed us to live while we tear apart and rebuild the house we just bought. We headed over to the house to work into the night.
I focused on finishing Harrison’s room… which meant learning how to cut and install the new baseboards.
Caulk’ll fix that.
And now that the stink room had been Kilzed it was time to cover that back up. We were so lucky to have fellow-new-old-home-buyer, Johnny, over to help with the sheetrock through a reciprocal work program. (Seriously, we are so lucky to have talented and willing friends and family to help us – it could not be done with our sanity intact without them.) Now, because we were eager to get moved in and because the rest of the exterior walls were not insulated we figured, why start now? Let’s just get this thing done!
This of course was not the end of the story.
There was a spot above the 4 foot mark that had been cracked and ripped when Marc took the bottom portion out. That needed to be cut out another 2 feet up. And the removal of that piece of course revealed more surprises. Hundreds of creepy crawly surprises.
Our inspection on the house warned of termite evidence, but, we were told that there was no signs of bugs currently in the house.
The inspector, unfortunately was wrong.
And so ended our night.
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