Fixing problems and creating solutions

After the bathroom was quickly coming together, we were able to look a little closer into the master bedroom. The house had a termite problem 30 years before it was given to us but that problem was quickly managed. The remains of the damage, however, was left behind and needed to be fixed so that bigger problems wouldn't happen in the future. When Matthew went into the attic he was able to see that some of the support beams needed to be reinforced. But along with the beams it looked like termites liked to damage sheetrock also. So down came the ceiling over the stairway we tried to salvage.

Here you can see Matthew taking the old nails out of the beams so we could install new sheetrock for the ceiling. Behind him is the beams for wall separating the master bedroom and the bathroom. You can see to the left, behind my mother-in-law, the old door opening that went into the old kitchen. 

So after that problem was fixed we noticed that there were no outlets on ANY of the walls in the master bedroom. How do put outlets into concrete walls you ask? You build a floating wall. We had to nail 2x4s 6 inches apart, run wiring through the ceiling and down the walls, and then nail sheetrock to the 2x4s. Now we have new walls that I can easily hang pictures on and outlets for lamps :).

Steffane B.