So I’m freaking out a little! I really can’t believe that next week will be August. Where has this summer gone? I started out the summer with so many projects and guess what? I still have so many projects.
At the start of the summer I knew that had 4, possibly 5 big projects that I wanted to get done this summer.
#1: FIX THE ROOF:
I needed to fix the roof over the laundry room so it would quit leaking. For those of you who actually read the drivel that I post, you all know well my horror stories of the roof leaking every time it rains, when the snow melts, when I break wind next to it, just whenever it feels like it… you get the picture.
Well, this project is DONE!!! With the help of great friends and family, we ripped off all of the shingles on the entire back roof, replaced old/rotten plywood, insulated, laid water/ice shield and re-shingled the roof in the correct way. You can see that post here.
#2 LAUNDRY ROOM DISASTER RELIEF PROJECT
Since the roof over the laundry room leaked, all of the drywall needs to be replaced on the ceiling. Also this year we discovered that we had a hot water leak in the line from the hot water heater to the rest of the house. To find the leak we had to pull up some laminate flooring, cut a hole through the plywood before we could even attempt to fix the leak. In that process we found that the water shut offs were conveniently hidden behind the drywall, so more drywall came out and we saw the shoddy wiring to the panel box and marveled at why house wouldn’t do me a big favor and burn down. On top of that, there is no insulation in that wall. If you want to relive that nightmare, you can check out that post here.
Now that the roof is repaired correctly and we have no more leaking issues on that side of the house, my project is to pull out drywall, insulate that one wall, have my Pop come over and install a new panel box that will be correctly wired, fix the hole in the floor and put down new laminate. I think that this project is the one that is bothering me the most. I think because it seems like a big undertaking it is bothering me that I haven’t made any headway or even started it yet.
#3 FIX THE FRONT CORNER ROOF
In my house of 1000 leaks, I also have a leak in the front corner of house. This past winter and our really, really wet spring didn’t help matters. The leak ran down the corner of two walls and pretty much destroyed them. While working on the laundry room roof Cpt. Insano took a wander over to the front to scout out the leak. Well it didn’t take long, he pulled at the shingles on the corner of the house to find that there were no nails holding them down. Why, you ask, why would there be no nails? Well that would be because the jackass “contractor” that flipped my house decided that he didn’t want to put down plywood. Yeah, that’s right you heard it right he didn’t put down plywood. He just laid the shingles down and glued them together. So the water would pool on the corner and leak straight into the house. Awesome.
This project is tentatively scheduled for the weekend of Aug. 13th. The Cpt., and more than likely his father Diamond Dave and possibly Butters and Dinker will be over to help me fix the roof.
#4 FIX SPARE BEDROOM
Once the front roof is fixed, then I can begin turning the spare room back into a bedroom. I will have to pull two walls out, one plaster and lath and the other drywall. Then depending on how bad it looks I may reinsulated and hang new drywall and install a new baseboard heater.
So I have a lot to do and I feel like the summer is quickly getting away from me. I really need to buckle down and get these projects done and buttoned up before winter. Well, no time like the present to get started. Wish me luck!!
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