What a Mess

Didn't do much at the Ronalds St. house this weekend (except to discover the location of the coal chute! I have a window that i'll be retro fitting into the opening)

- have to wait for the electrican and plumber to finish up so I can get to work. I did, however do lots of stuff around our current house. As I stated in a previous post, there are water problems in the basement. Both the small spare room and the guest bedroom have wet floors. Unfortunately, i finished these rooms many years ago in the Summer not knowing that there were water problems. Upon discovering some rotten drywall and wood - i un-finished the spare room this weekend. I only took the carpet out of the guest room and think I can get away with leaving the drywall in there despite a bit of rotten-ness in the corner.

In the spare room, I had to remove all of the drywall, take the studs out of the block and smash up all of the old tile. Most of the tile is swept into a pile in the middle and i'll have to remove it later. It's HEAVY when you load up a trashcan with it and I already have enough in the can outside to give the trashman a hernia. I'm going to attempt to wire brush the existing paint off of the walls and use a masonry sealant on them. Then I will probably epoxy coat the floors and hopefully this will resolve the moisture issue. You can see the water coming in through the wall on the picture.



NURSERY
I cleaned up the nursery today and it's really looking pretty good. We need to get a baby in there! Carrie's Mom framed some nostalgic National Park poster cards for us and they look really great. The new mattress is in the crib and waiting for sheets! Word is that Dad nearly has the changing table ready as well. Exciting times are near. Last week at our class, we got to tour the birthing suites and various facilities that we'll head to when the big day is here. The hospital facilities at the U of I are really nice.