Did I mention that it's raining a little bit?

OK, more like a an almost steady downpour.  Day two.  I know Curtis tarped the roof the best he could, but I have just been worried about it today and I kept feeling like I needed to go check on everything.  So I did.  

Why, I don't know. 

As soon as I stepped inside the house, I could hear water hitting the floor.  In multiple places.  This can't be good.   That spot where Curtis ripped out the kitchen cabinet and found a door?  Water is just running down the walls. Dripping of the wires.  I didn't even dare turn on the lights to see just how bad it was.  The counter top was wet. The pile of insulation on the floor?  All wet.  The laminate floor 3-4 feet in front of the counters?  Wet, all the way to the wall. From the new old door all the way over to where the fridge is supposed to be. 

I hear dripping in the pantry. But its dark and I am not going in there. 

More dripping at the wall over by the laundry room... the carpet is saturated here, in a space at leat 3' x 3', maybe just larger than that.  Squishy saturated. But I could at least put a bucket here and catch the water.

There was more leaking at the sky lights in the laundry room.  But I KNOW all of that is getting replaced so I am not too worried about all of that.  

The floor is wet over by the door going into the garage. But I couldnt figure out for sure where it was coming from. 

Now, where the water is running down the wall, there is brick there, the old exterior wall.  That should be OK.  Not sure about the floor... it might be concrete under the laminate but I dont really know.  The other spot? I dont know about that either.

Now..... I understand this is not entirely as bad  as it could be.  I mean, the house is OLD.  It has not been taken care of.  So many things are being replaced anyway.  But still, it just freaks me out because Curtis isn't here and it is hard to guess what he would want me to worry about. 

If I thought he would be home today or tomorrow, I wouldn't worry so much.  But.... when he says "I'll see you when I see you," I have no idea what to expect.  It could be several more days of rain and waiter before he gets home.  

And so, I just worry about everything. 

No new progress, just random photos.

This week's renovation has been interrupted by what else but.... the deer hunt.

The reality is, Curtis is living with a houseful of girls and hormones now, so I am quite certain he needs some time with the guys. Deer hunting is a good excuse for that because we -- the girls -- aren't interested.   And besides, today is day two of a pretty heavy rain.  So, he wouldn't be getting much done on that roof anyway. 

Before he left, Curtis got the floor in for Cara's dormer, and he has a couple of the walls framed in. All of the above has been carefully covered in blue tarps. I don't have any pictures of the walls yet. But, I do have some random pix from last week.  

Curtis loves to have people stop by so he can give them the grand tour.

Yeah!!!! Uncle Maurice brought a roll off - that ought to help the clean-up!

Think it is close enough to the house?

In front of our surprise door.... LAYERS.

New roof, old roof, which roof??

The brick here was once the exterior of the home.

Got my irises from home planted in a temporary spot.

Some of the "treasures" we have found... the shoe was in a tree.

And... because it is almost Halloween..... this was left in the kitchen. :)

Surprise-surprise!!

Last week was been full of surprises! 

After Curtis got the building permit, he went back to work on the roof, tearing apart half of the back section, the part over the kitchen.

Well, we stopped in to see him one day and found quite a mess in the kitchen, which surprised me – I thought he was working on the roof, right? 

It turns out that when he started digging out the insulation on the roof, he found the old, very old electrical wiring…. I think he called it hook and loop wiring.  

old old very old electrical..... it is gone now.

Well, there is no way Curtis was going to leave that in place, so he had to find just what those wires went to. So, one of the cabinets came down. Sheetrock came down. 

 Can you believe….. one piece of sheet rock started at the floor and went just up to the wire, and the other piece of sheetrock started at the ceiling and came down to the wire…. which was then mudded right in between the two pieces.

Well, in the process of making a mess and tracing those wires, we found another surprise:  there was a door hidden behind the kitchen cabinets. We have no idea if it was an exterior door or maybe an entry to the kitchen at one time.

Another door?

Once the wiring was replaced, Curtis went back to the roof.  Or should I say….. roofs?

The back portion of our house includes the kitchen, the pantry and the laundry room.  It appears what is not the kitchen was added on first….. you can actually see it in the old photo I posted the other day.  Curtis thinks the pantry was probably added as a porch to begin with, because the roof is sloped away from the kitchen. 

The old kitchen roof and the old porch roof are still there, under the existing roof. He found another small chimney also, although who knows what that went to. 

 

 The good news is that the support spanning the kitchen is heavier than Curtis anticipated.  And I guess it was well insulated, with a nice thick layer of sawdust, topped with a good layer of loose papery insulation.

Curtis took Cara up on the roof so she could stand in her bedroom – she was quite pleased with herself, silly girl.  

And then, Curtis took ME on the roof to take pictures. 

I think I turned green. 

I know I wanted to puke. 

Hope he doesn’t need help up there anytime soon because this girl is afraid of heights!!!