Rushing to finish

As of today I am 29 weeks pregnant and I didn't feel like my husband was understanding how much time he REALLY had. So I sat him down and explained that today I would be 29 weeks pregnant which means that next week I will be 30 weeks pregnant which mean we have about 10 weeks left until the baby arrives. Although most people would be get excited at this point we both got really nervous because that means we have less than 10 weeks to finish the house to meet our goal of moving in before the baby comes. YIKES! So along with trying to hurry and finish the house, I decided to go ahead and turn our current guest room (in the house we rent) into a nursery for a "just in case" precaution.

While we were worrying about how much time we had left, my mother-in-law was furiously working on our tar covered floors. On the picture below on the left you can see the black tar all over the concrete floors and the picture below on the right is the finished product. My mother-in-law soaked the whole floor in paint thinner which turned the tar in a gooey slurry. She was then able to scrape it up off the floor. To get any left overs she sprinkled sand over the floor to absorb the left over residue. The floor in the main part of the kitchen in the picture on the right looks like it is still covered in tar but it really isn't, that's just from the water left on the floor because she washed the floors when she was finished scraping up the sand.

This weekend my husband decided it would be a good time to get the roof completed so that we could start putting in sheet rock and not have to worry about water leaking in if it rained. He and his brother got started tearing the old shingle roll off the roof early in the morning. Of course at least one piece of plywood had to be replaced so that was done before laying down roofing paper and then installing the painted tin we bought a couple weeks ago. Below on the right you can see my husband installing the tin.

I tried to take some pictures of them working on the roof, so that is what you can see below. Although this is a very laborious project my husband and brother-in-law were able to finish the lean-to part of the house just on SATURDAY! Yay for some light at the end of the tunnel! The wood you see on the edge of the roof in the picture below on the right will later be taken off to be flush with the tin roof. For some reason when the roof was built (a long time ago) they made the over hang something like 3ft! Ridiculous! So we are fixing it and making it a standard length later.

The next day, Sunday, they got started on the first story roof (why they did this last I'm not sure). I didn't get any pictures but we decided to take down the chimney just off the top of the roof because we can't use the chimney anyway (it's just a decorative element on the inside). So below is two pictures of the boys taking the old tin off the roof.

Because this part of the roof was larger than the bottom story lean-to roof, it took a little longer. They got done as much as they could, and if the sun would have stayed up an hour longer, they could have finished.

At least now we can start sheet rocking next week and see the walls come to life.

Steffane B