2 Post Day!

As the other blog gets ignored... (#writersblock) its a 2 post day over here at the Money Pit... SO let's talk about sills shall we... or aprons, or stools or whatever you want to call it... either way, my Dad rocks windows socks off...
So last week... after working his full time job, and after working an entire weekend at a craft show for my mom's full time job, my dad came to my house and measured all 20 of my windows to fit them for sills... then went home and cut them. I got this picture [when I woke up] because my dad texted it to me at 11:30pm Tuesday when he finished cutting them...

 THEN came over to install them...

 Wednesday, Thursday... Friday...

 Saturday...

Stopped by Sunday before and AFTER the football game...

Until we had:

In like... every room... #greatestdadever

But you'll have to wait for the rest of the photos, my lovelies... we'll be doing a full post-inspection reveal tomorrow... depending on how the inspection goes :)

Whoa.

So... today is the FINAL (hopefully) bank inspection... which would mean, no more contractors, no more begging the bank to pay the contractors, no more inspections, no more (non-self imposed) deadlines... basically; for the first time since we got into this mess, we will no longer have to rely on SOMEONE ELSE telling us how/when/what to do with OUR house. Freedom. SO... lots and lots and LOTS of work went on this weekend, and this past week... but I still owe you a shower installation post!! So let's start there. Back on Thanksgiving weekend (holy crap that was so long ago at this point!) Kev came over to fix the screwup from our lazy/dumb/overpaid plumber made of our shower, which basically meant taking the whole thing apart, cutting the pipes, and putting it back together. It looked something like this...

we were starting to get a little punchy...

Two boys in a tub grabbing a pipe... not as sexy as it sounds...

But the finished product.....:

TAAADAAAA!!! Well done boys!!! (I extra enjoy the beer on the back of the toilet!) Couple that with our schmancy new sinks:

And we've almost got a bathroom... 

Too Busy to Blog?

For shame!! Let's catch up, shall we? I have a bathroom and a wood floor post for you! But, since the photos for the bath are not quite "blog-ready" – let's cover the floor first...

We had this:

when we moved in; 12-15 boxes of pre-finished cherry hardwood (about 350 sq ft). In the house, ready to be installed. So this weekend we installed it in the hallway on the second floor. 

Saturday we had help from Nick's stepdad Dave, who, as usual, was pretty much a rockstar. First we put down the underlayment...

 Then the first row had to be nailed in by hand.

 Getting started was the hardest part...

Till we got to this...

I knew this part would be tricky... and after much debating...

We figured it out...

 More nailing, (and Genny Cream Ale) and by 8:30 pm we had....

Siiiigh, not bad for 12 hours... I guess... On to Sunday...

Sunday Meg and Paul came to help... and thanks to them, despite feeling like we'd both run a marathon, we were able to soldier on!

 

Until finally I turned around and saw Cole sitting in the middle of the finished part of the floor playing with his toys, and I said, "Meg!! Your son is actually sitting on the floor of my second floor playing!"

 That was pretty cool...

So by the end of Sunday... we had actually [almost] finished the whole hallway... 

Finished enough to take the rented nailer back at least!! Some last touches with our pneumatic nailer and we can put a bow on this baby... I'm pretty pleased with it... Which is good, because this might be the most extreme form of "nesting" known to man...

Ha!