Rick is busy with other projects right now and couldn't leave on Thursday, so we arrived together on Friday morning. We started with leveling and stabilizing the floor under the closet and master bedroom areas from under the house. We framed in the closets and bedroom walls, ran electric wiring for closet lights and wall plugs, ran the water line from under the house up through the closet framing and out into the backyard (it will hopefully prevent the faucet from freezing in cold weather), and sheet-rocked most of the ceiling in the 3rd bedroom and all of the new walls in the 2 closets and master bedroom and 3rd bedroom.
I also pulled up the flooring in the pantry to explore the wood flooring situation in the kitchen. There is beautiful oak flooring underneath the 2 lays of linoleum and 1 layer of red linoleum-type tiles, but unfortunately, they used a heavy black tarry glue to put down the tile many years ago, and it probably won't be feasible to remove the flooring and get that substance off of the wood floors. (Update: a YouTube review of the issue revealed several potential solutions. Rick doesn't want to mess with it, but I'm going to take on the project myself. The kitchen area isn't that large.)
There's lots more sheet-rocking to do, but we need to get the old windows out and new windows in before doing most of it. The next trip will likely involve replacing windows in the 3 bedrooms and putting up more sheet rock if time allows.
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