So I will try to cover a bunch of time.
So I got back, we had a lot of heat and then it has been mostly pleasant weather wise.
The tree trimmers are still going sporadically. Partly because there have been a few storms through and partly (I think) because it's down to "topping" the elm which is around 120 feet tall. Me personally... it would be a freezing day in hell before you got me up there, it is scary tall. To put it in perspective if you were up where they need to be and fell you would fall about 80 feet before you hit the peak of our roof and that is three stories + the roof up. The guys who fixed the chimney were a bit in awe of the tree trimmers and that guy was sitting on top of the chimney (~40 up) with no safety line!
Oh and we had the fireplaces inspected and "pointed" and a new flue put on one and spark arresters on the rest.
A pause for some Eastern market food porn.
Well that was good for me, you?
OK so we are in the middle of construction and destruction all at the same time. Aislinn is hot to get everything painted AND we needed to do that behind the radiators while they were pulled for the system test. So most rooms have color tests in them now.
And the room that was falling off the house, kind of we needed to jack up and support. Well they needed to see inside the floor to make sure jacking it up wouldn't break the kitchen ceiling. So since that room was tiled and those would break when we jacked it up level I needed to remove the tiles. They came up pretty easy but they were laid on concrete board. Think sheetrock but made from concrete. The folks laying it down were of the "belt and suspenders" crowd (folks who don't trust either and so wear both). And they glued AND screwed it down with determination. That meant basically breaking it all into small pieces with a hammer drill.
So this room
Became this room
And slowly all these little rocks got cleared away
In this bucket
And a lot of sweat
And we got down to the boards and then beyond...
You probably can't see it in this shot but the first three joists are cracked because of the "falling" room.
But then Ray and Ron rode in on white stallions, or maybe it was a car? and ripped open the deck below and put in some posts that could actually hold some weight. They also jacked up the room. It had sagged over an inch on one end and just under an inch on the other. FYI that is a LOT of sag for the five or so feet that hangs over the deck.
Old semi-useless posts.
Though they had replaced older and even less useful posts...
Now with all new and really useful posts
OK next, radiating pain...
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