Work on the house continues this week.  Maribeth and Dan came out for a long weekend and worked away on our small porch off the bedroom.  They stripped all of the old paint and it looks great!  Can’t wait to get this thing sanded and painted so it looks nice.  We’re going to put new out door carpet in there, a new ceiling and call it done (once painting is done).  Of course the door has to be stripped and refinished as well.

Posts and details all stripped, ceiling just scraped since we’ll cover it with a new one.

One small section to strip on that top right!

Ryan got a bunch of things done the last few days.  The vent for the upstairs dryer is installed.

New vent!

He worked on the back porch demo, we ran a wire from the switch to the basement when we did the back hallway so that wire is now fed up to the ceiling in the porch and we just have to get it to a new light so the back porch will have light again.    All of the aluminum around the porch was removed and he recycled it with a few trips (getting rid of one last radiator as well!).  A couple trips to lumber yards – got the decking we need this weekend, got some crown for the livingroom (our contractor is here today putting up more crown!).   With all the errands needing to be run (we were sending our truck back to NY with Dan and Maribeth so it all had to be done), Ryan didn’t want to start demo in the late afternoon.  Plus the heat/humidity was crazy yesterday.

Today he has cleaned up the little porch, the roof and gotten ready to start the demo in the master.  Here is a before pic of what he’s starting with – the windows are already all new, so it’s just taking the plaster/lathe down.  We’re saving the ceiling in the cupola since we won’t need a light there (doing sconce lights over the windows in there), we’ll just sheetrock over that ceiling.  The big ceiling has to come down though (yuck).  We borrowed this negative air machine so looking forward to seeing if that contains the dust mess.

Pre-demolition!

Demo and cleanup/prep work today and tomorrow.  Friday starts the porch project!