Odds and Ends
Here are a few of the other projects that didn't seem to deserve their own entries but are still worth mentioning:
To make more kitchen space, we've added an extra 4 feet of 1/2 wall to make our L kitchen a U.
This was surprisingly easy now that Deder's done a bit of framing in the house already. It's also desperately needed--since the original kitchen had neither a fridge or range, we needed to make up the counter space somewhere.
The guest-room closet had a bit of an ugly issue. The septic pipe running down the corner tended to condense and mildew your closet contents besides being unsightly. So we managed to disassemble and reassemble the frame a full stud over giving enough room to frame over the septic pipe when the finish work happens. Much nicer!
Much of this remodel includes organizing the house the way modern homes are organized. The current configuration is piece-mealed together from 80 years of fixes and upgrades. As a result, the water heater is not in the house proper, but a later addition. Luckily, our local home-builders association had it's recent garage sale. Local builders donate used and extra parts to raise money for a charity, often there is some really good stuff there for folks like us. The
place was a crazy house, some lady even took some tiles right out of my hand. You would have thought it was some kind of Black Friday Sale or something. Anyhow, we did end up getting our name on a nice used water heater, way newer and more efficient than our current one. Once we get the plumbing in we can place the new heater inside the house where is should be much more efficient.
To make more kitchen space, we've added an extra 4 feet of 1/2 wall to make our L kitchen a U.
This was surprisingly easy now that Deder's done a bit of framing in the house already. It's also desperately needed--since the original kitchen had neither a fridge or range, we needed to make up the counter space somewhere.
The guest-room closet had a bit of an ugly issue. The septic pipe running down the corner tended to condense and mildew your closet contents besides being unsightly. So we managed to disassemble and reassemble the frame a full stud over giving enough room to frame over the septic pipe when the finish work happens. Much nicer!
Much of this remodel includes organizing the house the way modern homes are organized. The current configuration is piece-mealed together from 80 years of fixes and upgrades. As a result, the water heater is not in the house proper, but a later addition. Luckily, our local home-builders association had it's recent garage sale. Local builders donate used and extra parts to raise money for a charity, often there is some really good stuff there for folks like us. The
place was a crazy house, some lady even took some tiles right out of my hand. You would have thought it was some kind of Black Friday Sale or something. Anyhow, we did end up getting our name on a nice used water heater, way newer and more efficient than our current one. Once we get the plumbing in we can place the new heater inside the house where is should be much more efficient.
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