Very busy weekend. And on top of that Jonathan took Monday and Tuesday off. So we are having a four day weekend. But not for fun and vacation. :)
We have been having trouble with our lawn mower. So much of the first part of the weekend, was used to getting the mower working and then finally getting the lawn mowed.
The next part of the weekend was a bit more exciting. We were busy working on the third floor. We started pulling down the lathe on the ceiling and bagging up the insulation that was there. Two of the rooms up there were down to the bare lathe ceilings. We had already removed all of the plaster from the ceiling and all of the plaster and lathe from the walls. We had not been looking forward to doing this as the insulation we have found in the walls on 2nd floor was so horrible. It was the powdery, dusty ancient yuck. But lucky for us the little bit of insulation the the ceiling on third floor was much newer. Now playing with that stuff is never fun, but this was not as awful as we were expecting.
By the end of the weekend we had the two south bedroom (both tower rooms) finished. We had just tossed all of the lathe out of the door to the ground. Later we will pick it up, remove the nails and cut the boards to the size we need to burn in the wood stove next winter. All of this will be done in the 1st floor kitchen. So the easiest way to get it all down was just to throw it out the door. There is a huge pile on the ground.
We also filled 16-18 bags full of insulation. We will lower them to the ground out the door tomorrow. (Thanks Andrea for all of the big bags.)
One of the best parts of the day was being able to uncover the underside of our roof. We had seen all of those beautiful boards last year when we put on the new tin roof. The most exciting of all was seeing the underside of the tower.
Wow! We so want to make this a secret room of some sort. It is so amazing. :D
:) It won't be a very big secret room. But it will be cool. Just a few days ago, Melinda was telling us that we need to make another floor. She wanted to put "Howl's brain (the house network controls) in a floor above the third floor. She is picturing and actual brain, not a computer. But when she saw this she was very excited and was sure that this was where we should put that. She calls it the LAB. I think she got that from Dexter's Lab.
ReplyDeleteIf we get done everything we are hoping to get done, this winter should be a lot warmer. Of course this past winter was colder than normal anyway.