10/6/24

 We arrived again on Friday morning. We replaced two windows on Friday and one on Saturday. We brought another new window, but it had a defect so we have to return it. Becky and I pulled up the linoleum floor late Saturday afternoon, and I worked on scraping the floor until dark on Saturday night and as long as my arms and neck would hold up on Sunday. I ended up ditching the multi-tool and heat gun and just using a plain scraper. The kitchen floor shouldn't take long to finish next weekend. 

Rick got all of the water lines plugged and ready to hook up the water next week. We don't have any inside faucets connected yet but will likely set up a toilet next weekend (yay!). Rick also completed the trim and caulking around the four new windows and worked on the dryer vent and electricity for the dryer, stove, and hot water heater. Next weekend we'll finish the kitchen floor, put in two more windows (south wall of master bedroom and south wall of living room), and work on the water/toilet/electricity/sheetrock/etc.

9/29/24

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.