In addition to the porch roof, the gutters, we have the ongoing projects: replumbing the heat system for the radiators, rewiring the entire house, and tearing walls out to allow for that, and repairing the structural damage from the lack of gutters.

Rewiring

We are three weeks in on the rewiring of the entire house. Residential Remedies is doing a fantastic job!! There is new wired everywhere!! Or so it feels. Not yet connected but in the walls and ready to connect once the new drywall is up!!

Everyone asks how we are doing with no electricity — and we are fine!! We have electricity we just have OLD OLD OLD electric and it needs to be replaced. We knew if going in and had planned for it. Some rooms only had one outlet. Now we will have outlets on each wall and sometimes more than one outlet on a wall!!

We’ve been picking up fixtures, driving far to get them!! Electric ceiling fans in each bedroom, and on the front porch. New outdoor lights (there really aren’t any in the back), so now we will have lights on the garage and at both backdoors in addition to motion activated flood lights. Very exciting!!

We have porch lights currently and will be keeping those.

We took one chandelier in to get rewired and it turns out it is both electric and gas. So only part of it can be rewired. I will post a pick when we get it back!!

Heat System

Great progress on the heat system.

The boiler is in and put together. And now pipes are being run INSIDE the walls instead of outside. Any piping on the outside is copper, so that it looks good. Inside the walls is white plastic (pex) piping. Much improved.

So right now, the new piping is run for all of the radiators on the second floor and many on the first. We haven’t pulled the walls out in the kitchen yet. We are all waiting until other things are done and it can be coordinated effort to get it demolished and replumbed, wired and back together as quickly as possible.

Structural Repair

The structural repair is moving along as well. Weather has been a factor in getting it completed. But this week they actually pulled out the window, cut out the sill and the posts (?). Robear Construction is completing this job.

Thankfully, they closed up the hole with a piece of plywood to help me sleep!!

They have built supports on each floor of the house during the repair. You can see in the pictures the damage on the sill, and other parts of the wall. This was a result of the gutters being off the house and the volume of water that was hitting this particular wall from the roof.

Coming soon…. we have found a few cool things in the house… and will be sharing those soon!!

A bone, a secret bathroom, letters in the wall, photos…. so check back soon to see them!!