The Old Folks Home

[perchie.girl]

odor ?

none. what you get out is a very fine ash.

 

[perchie.girl]

I have black appliances ... they clean up great... I guess my water is good.

vinegar is my friend. buy it by the gallon. VERY hard water from my well... One of the to do things on my list is a whole house filter for well water.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

as promised an in progress picture

The channel down the middle is him trying to level the floor. The white patch is drywall plaster. The grey patch is Bondo. a previous kluge fix from the original builder. Floor slopes from bondo away from the trough. All that under the bondo and plaster is OSB and not good OSB either.

Hes documenting as am I ... Mom wants to see so we will see if she is still up to going tomorrow.

deb

 

[pennyJo1960]

What a great looking place with your vision Deb you have nice place there

 

[perchie.girl]

What a great looking place with your vision Deb you have nice place there

The outside is a bit rough. But I hope to mitigate that with a front porch that goes from fence to wall. About 30 feet. only about four feet deep. Handrails and new steps to make access easier as I move on . New front door and remove the two sliding glass doors on the front of the house. Hate em.

I need a small deck off the lower bedroom. just to expand the very narrow walk way there. And to give the bones for a hillbilly bathroom a place to start. I would love to get the incinerator toilet. but I need to dial back till the main portion of the house is complete. I can do a sawdust toilet in the interim.

deb

 

[Alaskan]

It's not the space that's the issue. Seems he doesn't understand why I am so tired. Thinks I am lazy. I mean allergies, sleep apnea and depression. It's a wonder I wake up at all.

I am sorry about that. Sucks.

 

[microchick]

Perchie I love that big livingroom. It looks like there is a pretty good slope going there. Any chance of just pulling up the OSB and releveling the whole thing? Or just overlay and re-deck?

Good morning all. Raining here today. Glad it is on so many different levels. We need the rain and I need the rest. Plus I have a broody hen that I need to get in a broody pen so she quits beating me up every time I take eggs away from her. No kidding, I have scabs all over my right hand because I keep forgetting to put on my leather work gloves when I gather eggs.

Every time she chomps down on me I think of SCGs perpetually broody turkey hen....I miss those reports.....and seeing SCG's beautiful quiliting projects.

Has anybody heard from her lately?

 

[perchie.girl]

Perchie I love that big livingroom. It looks like there is a pretty good slope going there. Any chance of just pulling up the OSB and releveling the whole thing? Or just overlay and re-deck?

I have both options and am open to each. The whole floor area we are addressing is only 750 square feet, that includes the kitchen and Bedroom.

Originally I was prepared to remove it all and replace it with either 3/4" or 1" thick plywood. But the contractor found good plywood floor under layers of particle board. I will do as he says. The kitchen where the stove and sink was will get the one inch thick because of water damage.

He found the leak it was a drywall screw run through a pvc water pipe who knows how long thats been leaking. When the bathroom was rehabbed all the floor had to be replaced down through the subfloor. That contractor used one inch thick Marine grade plywood.

I want this work on the bones to last me another thirty or forty years, because I am hoping to still be there when I pass on.

deb

 

[microchick]

I don't blame you one bit! You have the chance to do it as you please and you seem to have a good relationship with your contractor so you go girl!

1 inch thick floors. WHOWSERS! I can only wish. The young moroon that built our home used strand board as decking, 1/2 inch and then put quarter inch cabinet grade plywood over the strand.

What really caused the problem is that he used DIY I beams as floor joists and constructed them with half inch strand board instead of good plywood. Now they are all warping and the floor was starting to get a 'rippling' effect to it. We have been going down and putting in floor jacks as it is just a glorified crawl space/root cellar. Not too hard, but our neighbor who also bought the other house this young man built told us he was having the same problem and told us how to fix it so that job is in the offing.....oh joy.

I'm off to clean my incubator. I plan on starting eggs inside to make sure they are fertile then transferring them to my broody.

If I don't I'll be wearing chain mail in the near future.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I am sorry about that. Sucks.

Thanks Al. Maybe I can educate him. Got a whip I can borrow?