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TERRIBLE DECISIONS: The Destructioning

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I am in a hurry, as something that I thought was at 6:30 is at 6:00 and I need to buy a card and a gift between now and then, so have some pictures, which I don’t think need a whole lot of context anyway:

What was behind the weird patched part of the wall? An unused junction box!

Broken tile!

Broken all sorts of stuff!

They were not prepared for the amount of insulation we have in the attic. Apparently this was “chest-deep” a few minutes before I went to investigate all the coughing. Sorry about the lung cancer, guys.

You can get an idea of how deep the blown-in was from this picture. We’ll have to reinsulate once the new ceiling goes in, but that’s the biggest problem we’ve encountered so far.

You can see from the dots on the wall (paint, sprayed through the pegboard) where the old closet was. The new shower is going to be nice.

Probably no pictures tomorrow, as they’re just doing electrical and some plumbing, but we’ll see.

TERRIBLE DECISIONS: Crop THIS shit, goddammit

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Still need to do some cleaning and put the furniture back, obviously, but I believe a BOOM! may be in order here.

BOOM!

TERRIBLE DECISIONS: In which I carefully crop photos

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Done!

… AS FAR AS YOU KNOW.

TERRIBLE DECISIONS: bluuuuuue

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Underlayment is down.  Now for the actual floor.

STAGE ONE COMPLETE 

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A bit of luck– as we guessed, there’s a sizeable gap under the baseboards now that the carpet is out, so we don’t need to pull them.  Lunch break, then underlayment, which should be fast.

TERRIBLE DECISIONS: Defloorification and Refloorifying edition

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Hello, dining room table!  I forgot what you looked like, what with keeping you under a tablecloth for five years.  You’re pretty nice!  Enjoy the living room; you’re going to live in there today.

One-day job, guys.  Say it with me.  ONE DAY JOB.  IMG_4755.JPG

Guess what I’ll be doing tomorrow

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No, not taking a nap.  That was today.  That’s what Thursdays are for lately.  No, tomorrow I rip my dining room to shreds and put down new flooring.  We’re gonna hope it goes well, because I sort of need for my dining room to have a floor.  That’s a thing that’s important to me.

Updates, obviously, coming as it happens.

(After the floor, there will be sushi, and then Luke Cage.  If everything goes right, it’ll be a really good day.)

Booyah!

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The view from the doorway.  Still some cleaning and straightening to do, obviously, and the books need to go back on the shelves, but:

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There is a cat in this picture, by the way:

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So that’s that, for now.  There was some fun with archaeology the way there always is when you do any kind of renovation in an old house, as the little nook in the back appears to have had some built-in architecture removed at some point– there were tack strips nailed down across the middle of the floor and some weird traces of paint and one bit of wall with missing baseboards.  The floor is otherwise undamaged, though, and as you can see it looks great.

Oh, and we just pulled up a corner of the carpet in our perfect rectangle dining room to reveal ordinary subflooring underneath, and I said the words “This would be the easiest hardwood flooring job ever, if we wanted to try it.”  I don’t know why I said those words.