Three more weeks, we’ve had sun, we’ve had snow and we’ve
had an ice storm!
The weather picked up and we had a lovely day outside
clearing up and trying out our new super long ladder. We had a “3rd
Rock from the sun” moment when we all headed up onto the laundry room roof to
enjoy the warmth and the view…
We also tried to empty the water from off the tarp covering
the pool. Every time we got it draining, we had more rain and it filled back up
again. We are hopefully getting an old sump pump from the plumber to clear it
off.
The ice storm didn’t bring as much devastation as we
expected based on neighbourhood trees, luckily we only lost a few branches and
some flattened sumac. The power went out for 6 hours, which meant no heat and
no running water, maybe a backup generator would have been a good idea after
all.
We plodded along
doing subfloors for a while and we finally got them all replaced. Next was the
framing… We put up a wall, started putting up another, noticed a mistake (we
didn’t have all the crowns facing the right way) and took them back down again!
Fixed the problem (or is it an opportunity?) then put the wall back up. After
much measuring, sawing, screwing, checking for plumb, and overall building, the
walls are up, hooray! We had to take the ceiling fan down (no great hardship
since it wasn’t pretty) because it was right in the way of where the wall
needed to go so now we have no lights in our work area.
The plumber came over to install some outside taps after we
discovered that the tap outside had been cut off in the basement so we had no
water running to it! Another mystery as to why the previous owners did what
they did. I’ve stopped trying to understand the logic behind the things we
find. We also discovered that the well which was decommissioned a month ago is
still hooked up to the pump and bringing water to the house! I had asked the
plumber to remove the old pipes and luckily he checked them before cutting them
off. We would have had an indoor pool if he’d gone ahead and taken the pipes
out. Now I need to contact the well company and find out exactly what we paid
all that money for?
We’ve put the snow blower to bed and started up the ride on
lawnmower, bring on spring!
After much deliberation we also decided to replace rather
than fix all the eavestroughs and downspouts (that’s gutters and drainpipes to
all my English speaking friends) so now tha rain will hopefully be diverted
away from the basement a little better.
We had the building inspector visit and he’s approved the
framing, he must have been here three minutes tops! I guess it must look good
for him to not check anything, their next visit will be final inspection J We can begin hanging drywall next…
Love the view from your roof, it's going to be smashing in the early summer!
ReplyDeleteLooking good...is this room the masterbath...and if Callum had no floor where has he been sleeping...how many bedrooms are in this house....and why was the fridge in front of a window-who does that...maybe the previous owners ate the animals!! Wow, I am envious of all your fun.
ReplyDeleteThis is the main bath upstairs but we've made it like a Jack and Jill so we can also access it from the master bedroom. Callum has been sleeping in James' bedroom since we got here, JM and I have the music room (what would have been a dining room) downstairs. There are 4 bedrooms upstairs of which only two are currently in use. As for the fridge, we put that in front of the window when we moved in because there was a heat register in the corner we wanted it(it was too tall to put where the previous owners had kept their fridge) so we couldn't put it anywhere else until the heat register was moved.As for eating the animals? You never know!
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