Last Weekend.

POSTED BY: Josh
THE CHIMNEY BIT MY FINGER

Last weekend Laura and I had a lot of work to do. Monday we had the Electrical Inspector coming and the carpenter coming to frame the master bedroom. One of the things was to get the chimney out. At around 6pm on Saturday there were about 5 feet of chimney left in the cellar. While I knocked it over, it broke into two pieces. Then, when it hit the ground, it snapped back together. The edge and fingernail of my middle left finger was inside that opening when the whole thing landed. The day ended there. My finger was bleeding all over the place and everything was dirty, especially my hands. So we had to get to a sink and disinfectant.
The day before that was going really well. Zach came over to help for a little while, and he had lunch at our new favorite eatery, Bakery On the Common. Laura did a great job getting the whole house cleaned. She got all the rest of the nasty old foam insulation off of the walls. As well as all of the debris out of the bottom of the bays between the studs. It looked great.
Sunday was more of the same things. I finished cleaning up the bricks. Laura picked up after all my messes, and started puttinh in some insulation in the bathroom. I also put in collar ties to help strengthen the structure of the roof.

In the next post, we'll talk about insulation, the furnace, and out hot water heater.