Bezabor: Work, work, work--- (and some play) (posted from home)
Since last report we made arrangements for a professional cleaning crew to come in and disinfect and sanitize the basement area. A crew of three people came in Friday morning and because we had EVERYthing out of the basement--- all our belongings, the washer and dryer, all the carpet, and panelling out, and the drywall, insulation panels, and furring removed to a height of 48 inches--- the cleanup job was an easy one and they were out of here in two hours. They left behind a commercial dehumidifier which has been running ever since.
The other thing that happened was that removing everything revealed an area of termite damage behind the drywall so we've also had the termite specialist in to treat both the damaged area as well as the outside wall of the house.
Also on Friday the township guys who caused the problem came by with a dump truck and in several trips hauled away all the discarded stuff in the driveway-- I was VERY glad to see my driveway again.
After six days of struggle getting things back in control, we took some time for ourselves over the weekend. I took a motorcycle ride in the morning and then loaded some stuff into Mocha Joe to be temporarily stored at my brother's house (about an hour away). After spending the afternoon there, I camped overnight at a state park part-way home. That was a GREAT idea. I was surprised to see so many campers there. The campground in that park is open year round and I've spent more than a few nights there alone or with only one or two other vehicles in the campground. But this 50-degree night there were thirty-five sites with campers registered and probably a few others like me who arrived after the office closed and used the self-registration system. This was terrific-- everybody seemed to have a big campfire on this nice (November!!) evening and it was great to hear the nearby kids enjoying themselves. After supper I sat around staring into the campfire until 2300 or so before turning in.
Sunday morning was also beautiful and I headed home, enjoying the fall colors. Labashi and I spent the afternoon planning and trying to figure out which things had to be done first. Then Monday we spent the entire day at Home Depot and Lowes, checking our options for reconstruction of the basement.
As part of our discussion on what was important to get done before the weather turns bad, we had decided we could let the basement wait a bit now that it was all cleaned up (and the dehumidifier is in there doing its job) but we needed to scrape and paint the exterior frame of our living room bay window. So Labashi got that started while I made our first run for building materials. I also had a repair job to do on part of the window frame. A small section of the exterior frame which had a brickmold shape had rotted so I replaced that section with vinyl brickmold-shaped material--- so that section won't rot again. Then we painted an undercoat layer of paint on all the exterior frame and by that time it was supper time!
Since last report we made arrangements for a professional cleaning crew to come in and disinfect and sanitize the basement area. A crew of three people came in Friday morning and because we had EVERYthing out of the basement--- all our belongings, the washer and dryer, all the carpet, and panelling out, and the drywall, insulation panels, and furring removed to a height of 48 inches--- the cleanup job was an easy one and they were out of here in two hours. They left behind a commercial dehumidifier which has been running ever since.
The other thing that happened was that removing everything revealed an area of termite damage behind the drywall so we've also had the termite specialist in to treat both the damaged area as well as the outside wall of the house.
Also on Friday the township guys who caused the problem came by with a dump truck and in several trips hauled away all the discarded stuff in the driveway-- I was VERY glad to see my driveway again.
After six days of struggle getting things back in control, we took some time for ourselves over the weekend. I took a motorcycle ride in the morning and then loaded some stuff into Mocha Joe to be temporarily stored at my brother's house (about an hour away). After spending the afternoon there, I camped overnight at a state park part-way home. That was a GREAT idea. I was surprised to see so many campers there. The campground in that park is open year round and I've spent more than a few nights there alone or with only one or two other vehicles in the campground. But this 50-degree night there were thirty-five sites with campers registered and probably a few others like me who arrived after the office closed and used the self-registration system. This was terrific-- everybody seemed to have a big campfire on this nice (November!!) evening and it was great to hear the nearby kids enjoying themselves. After supper I sat around staring into the campfire until 2300 or so before turning in.
Sunday morning was also beautiful and I headed home, enjoying the fall colors. Labashi and I spent the afternoon planning and trying to figure out which things had to be done first. Then Monday we spent the entire day at Home Depot and Lowes, checking our options for reconstruction of the basement.
As part of our discussion on what was important to get done before the weather turns bad, we had decided we could let the basement wait a bit now that it was all cleaned up (and the dehumidifier is in there doing its job) but we needed to scrape and paint the exterior frame of our living room bay window. So Labashi got that started while I made our first run for building materials. I also had a repair job to do on part of the window frame. A small section of the exterior frame which had a brickmold shape had rotted so I replaced that section with vinyl brickmold-shaped material--- so that section won't rot again. Then we painted an undercoat layer of paint on all the exterior frame and by that time it was supper time!
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