House update: Friday

[electricland]

My aunt reports:

Today for lunch, Dan, David, John and I had dim sum and green
beans.

Dave and Dan put paper down on the floors and drywalled in Jen's kitchen.
John put in a stove exhaust through the wall in Robin's kitchen and
William took the exact same picture--John grinning through a small hole in
the wall--as we have when he did same in our kitchen.*

William is mudding.
Cheers, Helen

*Given that my kitchen is on the 2nd storey... how was this
accomplished? *is confused*

Comments

[archaica.livejournal.com]

You know, this makes me wonder .... exactly how big is this house going to be, and who's going to live in it? (If I may be SUPER-NOSY and ask)

[electricland.livejournal.com]

That's not nosy! You've stuck with me this long, you deserve answers to the questions that puzzle you!

The house is 2 1/2 storeys, plus unfinished basement (currently a.k.a. The Pit of Despair). We're turning it into a duplex; I'll have the top half (2nd and 3rd floors) and my cousin Jen (and her dog) will have the first floor. One day we will finish the basement and rent it out.

Neither apartment is going to be especially huge -- the house is maybe 16' by 40', maybe not that long, so that works out to not a whole lot. But it will be ours! We'll each have a bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, living room, and dining room (and I get a second bathroom, a 2-piece, so I don't have to stumble downstairs in the middle of the night to pee).

Hope that helps...

[bryghtboy.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure they cut in from outside using an ablative saw blade. So he would have been standing on a ladder the entire time outside cutting through the brick and then anything else that happened to be in the way... hence the peeking through a hole in the wall on the second floor.

[archaica.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. That does make a lot of things make a lot more sense. It sounds a lot like the house my friend lives in right now, and he's got a pretty good arrangement. Good for you!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Aaaah, that makes sense.

(Turns out they got terribly lucky -- they drilled a row of holes from the inside out to outline the hole, and then when they got outside they discovered the holes perfectly outlined a brick and a half so they only had to cut through one brick. Ah, the minutiae of our life.)