no glamour shots here

it was a weekend of hard work with little to show for it…

a while back mathew had cut holes in the downstairs closet wall for running pipe and electrical wires upstairs from the garage. now it was time to close them up. i attached wood to the right side stud so the drywall would have something to attach to. i added insulation, then cut and screwed on the drywall. next will be plaster and probably something to hide that unsightly sewer pipe.

meanwhile, mathew was upstairs cutting more holes in the ceiling… this time for a vent fan in the bathroom. (i should have him take some exterior shots, there’s a cute little vent hood up on the roof now.)

sunday’s activities took a slight detour…

during the last big storm mathew noticed that the upstairs bedroom window was leaking. since there’s no rain in the forecast for at least a week, we decided to check out the damage. this included removing the window, tearing off the window frame and (sadly) destroying part of mathew’s first plastered wall.

what we found was not good. rotten wood and fungus (ick.) someone had installed this window not too long ago, but had done it so incorrectly that water was seeping into the window frame and wall and getting trapped. with time running out in the day, we decided to treat and replace as much of the rotten wood as possible and come back and replace all of it including the stud and window at a later date.

this unscheduled activity took up our entire sunday. i spent the day sanding and sealing old and new wood and mathew spent the day laboriously hanging out the window attaching, planing, sanding and painting things.

(left) here i am demonstrating the home remodeling bicep drill curl. start with 3 sets of five reps, increase as you build up strength. (right) the bathroom is almost ready for tile! (currently the cement board makes it look like a prison cell…)