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 :)

Where to Begin...

It seems surreal that after having weeks and weeks of nothing to report, I finally have too much to report! There was much excitement while we were gone! Lets start with our quick walk through... possibly the most exciting; electricity, and LIGHTS!

ALL the new windows are now in:

Some of the framing is done:

And even some insulation - this is the laundry/utility room which will need to be drywalled/finished before the others due to the hot water tank and furnace needing to go in ASAP.

So my big fears of coming home to nothing done (yes, that and the toilet being installed in the middle of the bathroom were my biggest fears... don't judge me...) were unfounded! Much more to come!

[Still Jumping Up and Down Giggling]

Don't judge me.

Plans officially approved? CHECK! Permit? CHECK! Electrician coming today and tomorrow? CHECK CHECK CHECK! heee... we might actually pull this off...

Seal It Up, Baby!

Well, it only took 3 months, but we are FINALLY finishing sealing that envelope! That's right folks, the new windows are FINALLY here and getting put in, little at a time! No more worrying about birds and bats and God-knows-what-else flying around inside the joint! So without further ado – extremely bad quality, relatively boring photos!

So this is a taste of what we've been dealing with on the second floor... one's a mess, two are boarded up... this is what we've looked at in the back of the house, where we park our cars, for the last year... 

I got home yesterday and I was greeted with..... 

(Hey I know the pics suck, but you can't complain about sun in Buffalo... let's just imagine it's the clouds parting, and a ray of sunshine is shining down on us, with choirs of angels singing and playing harps!)

So I ran in like a kid on Christmas, stole the hubs' iphone (for slightly less sucky photos – I LEFT MY CAMERA AT WORK!), and ran upstairs to see from the inside. 

Check out how dark this room was... 

That crazy solar flare above the board is where the sun rises every morning... but even in the evening, this is what the room looks like now!

Aw, so sad to see this go... (no, not really...)

We also got one of the windows in the front in!

Before:

After:

Ok, it doesn't look that exciting, but the other one was cracked, and rotted, and all sorts of wrong!

Reading corner:

(what you can't really see is that is plexiglass covering that broken window frame... BROKEN plexiglass at that...)

nooooow:

Okay, I AM painfully aware that these photos are completely anti-climactic, but please trust me, this is a huge deal... and I'm jumping-up-and-down-hand-flappin' giddy about it! More and more and more to come... FINALLY!!!