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Monday, November 09, 2009

Craptacular!

If you thought this was a perfectly fine bathroom...



...clean, neat, with its relatively new fixtures and recent paint job...



...then you don't know old houses.

The presence of a fresh coat of latex and a newer cheapo vanity were tip-offs that someone was trying to hide something. Stained ceiling tiles betrayed an old roof leak and removal of the panels revealed decades-old rotten wood and some pretty ridiculous attempts at patches. Before the roof was properly replaced after Hurricane Charley there had been water sitting up there for a very long time. Welcome to the home of The Black Mold.



As it was, there was only one teeny spot of mold, nothing a good blast of Clorox Clean-Up couldn't handle. You can see the new roof decking over Jorge's head. He got up there and had a good look at the rest of the roof's underside and what he saw made him very happy. The railroad company built this place right. It was the later occupants who boogered it up and left behind this mess that had to go...



Onto the living room! Ye olde mantlepiece and the dark shutters are scrapped.



And the mock heavy timbers between the dining room and kitchen...



...are stripped off. If we're lucky, there may still be a boxed-in arch underneath there, matching the arch between the living and dining room (visible in the background.)



Here's a view of the additional two ceilings hidden underneath the dropped ceiling. See the two layers of stuck-on accoustical junk?



As you can see by the following kitchen photo, the next priority is getting our electrician over here. Pronto.



Pretty amazing that all this work was completed between Friday evening and Sunday afternoon singlehandedly by my husband. It might be a few more days before he has another burst like that though.

2 comments:

rae said...

Wowsa! That really is a lot of work in such a short time. What an impressive husband you have.

la Maitresse said...

Wow. Just. Wow.