tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63584729465304858512024-03-20T07:23:39.575-06:00From Shore To ShoreSWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00251126489814057879noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358472946530485851.post-65213426299199658242019-01-16T04:18:00.004-07:002019-01-16T11:01:43.108-07:00Wow!!!<br />
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So I told you before I have a love hate relationship with this blog. That increased when I found out that it was no longer a simple thing to publish it to a hard bound book. That said, I didn't realize I had abandoned it at the point when we were painting. I really thought I had taken in farther into our reno process. So my apologies to those who have been following and waiting. And now I digress.....on purpose.<br />
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June 20-26, 2018<br />
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After painting was finished, we needed to install the hard wood flooring. We wanted wood flooring in the main living areas. (I like carpet in bedrooms.) I had looked and debated and looked and debated. In our previous home I had an office with engineered hardwood that I had loved. It was no longer being made and nothing that was currently out resembled it. Then I was going the rounds of the pros and cons of hard wood, engineered hard wood and laminate. I really do not like the look of laminate. Even though some look amazingly like hardwood they just don't quite cut it for me. Engineered wood often looks beautiful but doesn't last and have the options for longevity that I really wanted. Wood is expensive and much more time consuming to install. We were installing ourselves.<br />
I researched and visited stores and researched some more. I wanted something that didn't look too polished and modern. I felt like most store salesman were just out to make a sale and really didn't give me the information I wanted. There were so many pros and cons to every type of flooring. And so many positive and negative reviews of all options. I had several samples that were possibilities but nothing that just said, "THIS IS THE ONE".<br />
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I finally ran across an article on facebook about a flooring store in Salt Lake. It was not an advertisement but a recommendation from someone who had went there. I looked them up online and liked what I saw and they seemed to have some hard wood options that would fit in our budget. So we went up to The Wood Floor Warehouse to check it out. Let me just say that I would recommend them to anyone looking for hard wood flooring. No pressure, no hype. Just guys who want to help you find just what you are looking for. Guys who knew wood flooring. Guys who knew that advantages and disadvantages of all the brands and types. They carry almost all major brands of hardwood flooring and our not trying to push one brand or the most expensive brand. So we started looking around for something that was a wide plank, oak or hickory and a medium wood tone. We found a couple of possibilities and then ...... we found one we absolutely loved. Upon inquiring about it we discovered that they made it themselves right here in Utah and that it was shipped out and sold all over the United States to major retailers. It had just the right amount of a rustic look, came in various widths, you could customize the color and it is an oil based finish which makes it easy to maintain. The oil based finish also makes it so it is not super shiny. Only one problem .... the usual problem ....... about double the budget amount. But..... floors are not easily replaced if you aren't happy with them ..... It was the first flooring we really got excited about ..... there was nothing out there that was comparable...... So....... yea we went over budget. <br />
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The floor has to be manufactured once you order it. We knew it would take longer than we really wanted to wait for it but it would be so worth it. Our kitchen cabinets and appliances were ordered and waiting but they would have to wait a little longer. Finally the last week of June it was delivered.<br />
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We had 900 sq. feet of flooring to lay. The flooring comes prefinished so that was a bonus. Perry bought the tools he needed but the store will actually lend you the tools to lay it. We knew we would need them for future use. The store told us where to go to get the best tools for the best price and they would even have bought it from us after we were through with it. They are very DIY friendly. And to top off my gushing referral, they do no advertising. They rely only on referrals and word of mouth. They don't need to advertise.<br />
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We had a low spot in a part of the kitchen that was in the old house and transitions between floors in the many additions. Perry had been adding leveling compound to those spots to try and get them level. So that had been taking place while we were waiting for the flooring.<br />
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But finally the flooring had arrived and we went to work. My mom even came over and helped us tag team it. (She's camera shy.😊)</div>
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We did three different widths of boards, 3", 4" and 5". It didn't matter what order they were laid in but within a 12" span there had to be one of each size in order to avoid running out of any one size. We wanted to mix and match those sizes and not do a repeating pattern. The lengths varied also and we needed to avoid getting the seams in all the same place. The boards were all delivered to a bedroom in stacks by width but mixed lengths. I picked out the boards for each row, Mom tapped them into place and Perry nailed. We worked all day Saturday and that got the main long run area done. Then Perry and I worked evenings for another 3 days. </div>
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We have got so many compliments on it. It is just the right amount of rustic and we have even had people ask if it is old reclaimed wood.</div>
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And now we could put the table in the dining room. </div>
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We also had some couches delivered.</div>
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Next was the kitchen cabinets!!!!</div>
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<br />SWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00251126489814057879noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358472946530485851.post-8276052757918965452018-06-24T09:34:00.000-06:002018-06-24T09:34:02.312-06:00Fireplace Rock and Paint! June 2018<br />
So we hired a guy to rock our fireplace!!<br />
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I love it!! And then Perry added his little(?) touch!<br />
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And look at this cute little antique cupboard I found!! </div>
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I bought 5 different samples before I got the color I wanted. I found Classic Taupe that I really loved but it was too dark. So I tried 2 other couples and they were too yellow and pink. Then I went back and got a one that was two shades lighter on the color card and it was too light. Finally I got a young kid in Home Depot that knew what he was doing. I explained that I liked the Classic Taupe but it was too dark. He said oh well, I can just have the computer do one that is 25% less in color than that. Wonders of technology! It was perfect. Also I needed a white for the trim that would match my kitchen cabinets so that it didn't look too different right next to each other in the kitchen. Yes white has different shades too. He scanned the sample cabinet piece and matched it exactly!! And we were off!</div>
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<br />SWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00251126489814057879noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358472946530485851.post-1361702720087756452018-06-24T09:16:00.000-06:002018-06-24T09:16:00.981-06:00SAD DAY!!May 2018<br />
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So part of the charm of our little yellow house has been the trees. However, they were 100 yrs old and every time the wind blew we lost a lot of branches. The front tree had a whole in it about 5 feet up on the trunk that I could stick my hand in and not feel a bottom to it. We worried every time the wind blew that they would fall on the house. There were three of them. All withing in about 6 feet or less of the house. They were also half dead from lack of water. There was 2 ash and 1 elm.<br />
So we called for a tree trimmer/remover to give us a bid! Holy Moly!! EXPENSIVE! But he was pretty sure that at least two were hollow and the third was headed there. SO out they came!! <br />
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<br />SWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00251126489814057879noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358472946530485851.post-47723326330084756652018-06-24T08:55:00.001-06:002018-06-24T08:55:16.609-06:00New Window!May 2018<br />
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So the window over where my kitchen sink goes was one that the bottom half raised up. As I stood there the center line was exactly at my eye level. I want to see out without seeing a line..<br />
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You can see it in this old picture. So I requested a new window!! And this month I got one! A new casement window with no line. And the window is set in the old double brick walls so it has a big window sill I can grow some herbs on. </div>
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The little mouse in the corner is actually a door stop but he likes the view!</div>
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So with spring came one of my favorite things!! Yard Work!!! I love to be outside working in my yard and I have a whole acre to work on. I was so excited to see that 17 raspberry plants were alive and growing. I had transplanted them from the Cedar Hills Garden the first spring after we bought the house. That would have been the spring of 2017. I wasn't sure how well they would do. Mom kept them water for me the first summer and this was the second spring for them here. And most of them had survived. <br />
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I then added some other vegetables: tomatoes, onions, peppers, squash. Everything froze except the onions the next week, despite covering them. We are at almost 6000 ft in elevation. That makes for a pretty short growing season. June 1 to October 1 on average. So I planted them again. They still haven't done well. Except the onions, they seem to be going great guns. The tomato plants were eaten down to about 2 inches by the deer. I finally covered in the end of the tomato cages with another cage so they couldn't get their head in the end to eat them. It is a whole new ball game to grow a garden here. It will take a while to get it down.</div>
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At the beginning of the first summer after we bought the house, my Mom saw a local ad for 1.5 irrigation water shares for Fountain Green. We quickly bought them up! Expensive but a necessity with an acre. This makes it so we can water about 9 hours a day at no further cost. City water is too expensive to water the whole acre with. Everyone here told me we would never be able to buy water shares. They are limited and very hard to get. People are still amazed that we found some. They say they have lived here for 25 - 35 years and never been able to get some. Guess the Lord was watching out for us again. (Him and Mom!!)</div>
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I have also been working on reclaiming some of the flower beds. Originally there were flower beds around the whole perimeter of the yard and house. Now, I like to week but not that much!! The yard is just weeds at this point and a defunct sprinkler systerm. It needs to be redone but that is on next summer's project list. However, I can't resist a few flower beds. There used to be an English garden with a paved area and big planter and lots of rose and other bushes. All dead!! So I am pulling the pavers out to make borders for the flower beds I am keeping. </div>
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This one used to have a half circle type raised flower bed constructed of poorly cemented together bricks with this rose bush next to it. I pulled the raised one out and will transplant a few more of the rose bushes around the yard into it.</div>
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Part of our preparation for sheet rock was to finish the plumbing to the kitchen and bath. We had to have it all roughed in. This involved climbing in crawl spaces for Perry. Under the additions the crawl space is 3-4 feet. Our kitchen is in the old part of the house and has about 2 ft. of space. Some of the plumbing is located in the storage room under the kitchen and it is about 7 feet tall. Perry is not a fan of these confined spaces especially the one under the old house.<br />
The main line for the water comes in about 4 feet under the ground into the kitchen sink area. This is where it's only about 2 feet tall. Perry had to connect the water line from there into the house. After doing so, it leaked at a turn off valve in the middle of a metal pipe. He went down one day to remove the valve so he would know what kind to buy to replace it. In the process of trying to remove it, he discovered that it just needed tightened. While he was down there he decided to snug up that pipe to its connection underground because he was afraid he had loosened it. So snug he did, except it snapped the pipe off underground. He had to get in that small space and dig down to the connection about 2 feet down in the dirt. The metal pipe was connected to PVC and you can't tighten that kind of connection. He had to lay down there and try to dig out dirt. There was no room to move the dirt so we vacuumed it out with the shop vac. It was a miserable job. After digging down, he had to fix the connection. Just getting to the connection, digging enough room to work on it and figuring out what was needed to fix it took one whole Saturday. He got it done and guess what? It leaked. <br />
The next weekend he prayed and climbed in the whole again. He took it all apart and jerry-rigged a long pipe with a pipe threader on it to re-thread the connection. It worked and this time didn't leak. It only took about an hour that Saturday. Needless to say he was so thankful it did. He didn't want to get down there again.<br />
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While he was working on this they had started the sheet rock. We hired this and the taping and texturing done. They delivered the sheetrock and we had them come into the back field and up to the back of the house so they could use the boom to unload it and bring it in the house.</div>
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Two guys came in to put it up. In a day and a half they had completely sheet rocked the walls and ceiling in the 1700 square feet of space. They were so fast!</div>
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While we waited for the texturing guy, Perry and I ship lapped the ceiling in the kitchen and the peak of the vault in the family/dining room.<br />
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The kitchen is in an area of the house that was originally a lean-to added on to the back of the old house. It had been redone when the addition was added to it. A new roof line was put on and a room added above it. We wish they would have continued the vaulted ceiling over it but they didn't. The ceiling in the kitchen is 7 foot 3 inches tall. They left the ceiling joists open and tongue and grooved the floor above. Pretty but dark and hard to put nice lights in. Not to mention the exposed wiring. We went back and forth about what to do with it. Whitewash the ceiling and leave it open or close it in and put lots of can lights. Opinions from family and friends were 50/50. We finally decided to close it in with a ship lap board. (I discovered over the weeks of living here that it was a magnet for cobwebs. Plus trying to find a pretty light that fit between the joists and didn't hang down lower than them was almost impossible.)</div>
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Perry's sister, Vicky and his brother-in-law Rick called and said they were going on Spring Break. Vicky works for the school in Carey, Idaho and Rick works for Sun Valley. Rick loves to do construction type projects so they thought if we were going to be around they would come stay with us for a few days and help with some projects around the house! We love help!!<br />
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Perry had some small projects that needed done before the sheet rockers could come in. Rick and he set out to do them and got them all knocked out.<br />
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New window in master bathroom.<br />
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We wanted it to swing the other way and I didn't like this door. They replaced it with one from our shop. (The shop has 4 exterior doors. We could do without this one and it swings the right way.) It needs some repair to some dents in it and some paint but nothing Perry can't fix. </div>
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And they finished off the last of the subfloor. It all had to be raised to the same level through out the addition so that required some places to have a second layer.</div>
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Oh and although the fireplace was installed into the wall it wasn't hooked up and running so they got it all wired and finished.</div>
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Vicky and I worked outside since the weather was beautiful. I'm sure she thought I was crazy. The field is over run with very tall (3-4 ft.) weeds and in the section we worked on there were several large pieces of plastic and carpet pieces and tarps places about 4 inches under the dirt for weed block. HAHA that didn't work!! Especially with 4 inches of dirt on top of them. We don't have anything that will mow them down so we spent a couple of days on our hands and knees weeding and removing the tarps. And raking it all up into a pile so Perry could burn it. It looks so much better.</div>
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<br />SWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00251126489814057879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358472946530485851.post-25927411778691107692018-04-16T11:39:00.001-06:002018-04-16T11:39:26.732-06:00Wiring and Insulation!!March 2018<br />
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Now we could rewire and add insulation back into the ceiling.<br />
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Cans in the ceiling along with light fixture supports. All new plugs exactly where I want them.<br />
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So Perry in the 6-9 months right before we sold went out of town maybe once or twice for work. The week we closed on the Cedar Hills house he was out of town until the night before we moved. And since we moved in, he has went out of town 4 weeks out of the 9. So guess who insulated while he was gone!! ME!! I had to replace some insulation that was removed from walls to wire, place plastic vapor barrier on the outside walls and insulate the ceiling. Yes in the whole addition. In the 12 foot ceilings. Kind of fun actually. Good thing I'm not afraid of heights.</div>
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So our little yellow house had two heaters. One in the old portion of the house that heated that part and one in the attached garage that heated the additions. In October the one in the garage quit working. Of course it was just a few short weeks after our home warranty expired. Then the one in the old part quit working. We were there at the house for a long weekend so we called a repair man to look at them. The one in the garage was a $400 part and since we were going to replace it, we decided not to fix it. the one in the old house was plugged into an extension cord attached to a light socket for power. We discovered the plug had been unplugged and then plugged in upside down. Who knew that furnace power had polarity!! 😏 So it was an easy fix. This did leave us with out heat in the additions where we were going to be renovating!<br />
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Furnace in old house. We pulled one of the ducts to add heat to our living quarters. Forgot to take picture of garage furnace.</div>
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After we moved into the house it was one of our priorities to get a new furnace or two put into the house. We also wanted a gas fireplace installed and a heater/ac unit put in the shop. We called a friend from Cedar Hills who has a heating and cooling business. He came in and gave us a Quote: $$$$$$$$$$$$$ Thank goodness we had figured enough into the budget. We decided to go with one furnace to heat the whole house. He said they could start the next week.<br />
Before installation we had to do some prep work. We had to drop all the sheetrock out of the ceilings as this is where the ducting ran. Check - that was done. We also had to clean out some eaves to get better access for the ducting between the new house and old house.<br />
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This is one of the eaves after we cleaned it. You can see the old roof that they just left in place and added the new roof over it. </div>
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This is one of the eaves we had to clean out. Miah and Brady were down so Miah helped me to get it cleaned out. We had to remove insulation, wiring and leftover junk. In this eave we found a fully functioning light socket with light and pull string buried in the insulation. We also found old bathroom fans and more wiring junction boxes just buried in the walls and insulation. By code they are supposed to be exposed for access. </div>
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AND then they came to start the work. It took them about two weeks. We left for one of those weeks and went to Hawaii with Zach and his family. </div>
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Perry's shop heater/ac.⇩</div>
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They also ran the gas line for my kitchen stove and the gas line for our BBQ on the porch. Yea!! Perry can BBQ, less dishes for me!</div>
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AND THUS BEGAN THE RECONSTRUCTING INSTEAD OF THE DEMO AND FIXING!!<br />
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We had to fix the structural beam between the kitchen and family room areas. When they added the first (of three) additions they had to open the old brick exterior wall of the original house. They had installed a large structural beam to support that exterior wall. Unfortunately, like many other things, it was not done right. They had not extended the beam far enough into the existing walls and had notched one end. This put undue weight on the middle of the beam and it had bowed at a knot. The whole wall was also slanted to the left which made the wall on the left 3" shorter than the wall on the right.<br />
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The room above the kitchen is going to be a playroom for the grandkids. First we had to remove the sheetrock on the inner wall and then all the up and down framing above the beam. This framing did not support the ceiling so it could be removed. It did however interfere with moving the wall and beam up 3" on the right. So we removed them.</div>
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Our home teacher from Cedar Hills had a structural beam that he didn't use to build his deck that he gave to us to use. Nice!! Structural beams are expensive!! Perry then jacked up the original beam and placed some 2x4 pieces under the left hand side until it was level again. He then raised the sagging knot and lag bolted it into place. No more 3" difference. Then he built a new 2x4 wall on the left side and right side next to the existing wall. He placed the new beam on top. The walls on each side were not parallel so the new framed walls were placed parallel. We then had to place some shims between the two beams. </div>
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See the 2x4's under the back beam(lighter colored one).</div>
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See that white wall behind. It is the exterior wall brick. It had sheetrock glued and screwed into the brick. I had to scrape and pry all that sheetrock off so the new wall could be built.</div>
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The right had wall was also extended past my kitchenette and a door framed. This will eventually become my the new main floor bathroom.</div>
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With the new beam in place we lag bolted the two together every 18 inches or so. Wallala!! New support beam. Straight!! About a month later, we re-framed the wall above it</div>
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NEXT: We needed to drop more sheetrock before we could replace our heating system. It is such a messy, dusty job. </div>
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We shoveled the insulation with a snow shovel into big contractor 55 gallon bags. There was no heat in this part of the house so we often wore gloves and coats as it was cold. </div>
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When Perry dropped the ceiling in our family room area, one piece came down and hit the gas line that was sticking up out of the floor. All of a sudden we could hear a chirping noise. I asked what is that and Perry said, "that is the gas line. Quick go shut the gas off." I had no idea where the gas shut off was or what to use to shut it off. Perry jumped down from the ladder, grabbed a wrench and hollered at me to open all the doors and windows quick. He soon got it shut off and we aired the house out. He soon capped the line again and we finished cleaning up insulation. We were so glad when all the sheet rock in the ceiling was down. </div>
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So we closed on our Cedar Hills Home on January 26, 2018. It was a little over 16 months since we had bought our little yellow house. It was a long road with a lot of bumps to get to this point. On Saturday, January 27, we loaded up the rest of our belongings and moved to Fountain Green. We had some awesome help from our son, Zach, our nephew, Josh, and our great home teacher, Chuck. We had 4 trucks and 4 trailers including Chuck's big toy hauler. I didn't get pictures as I was busy supervising the loading. We had moved quite a few things we didn't need on a regular basis, like Holiday decorations, off season clothing, beds we didn't need, etc. But we had one last load to do. I had everything packed before Saturday morning so it was just load and go. <br />
We did have one little hiccup along the way. The clutch went out on Chuck's truck about 25 miles from Fountain Green. He got it towed to Nephi to have it replaced and then his 5th wheel toy hauler brought to Fountain Green so we could unload it. <br />
On the Fountain Green end we had some guys from the ward show up to help us unload. Almost everything was unloaded into the garage or the shop. <br />
We set up house in the rooms we could use during the renovation. We have a 1400 sq. foot 1914 home with a 1700 sq. foot addition onto the back of it. The 1700 sq. foot addition is what we have been renovating at this point. Phase 1 if you will. <br />
We set up in the old home rooms for the most part.<br />
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This is Perry's office and our front room. He works from home so he needed someplace to work. It will be just his office when we are done. <br />
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This room has a small walk in closet.</div>
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There is a toilet. The shower doesn't work but the bathtub has been heaven after a hard day of renovation. </div>
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Downstairs off the kitchen area we have another bathroom. This <i>lovely </i>shower, a vanity and a child's height toilet. Perry mostly uses this shower as it has a weird on-off valve that needs a little finesse to get it to a decent temperature.</div>
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Full stove, microwave, fridge, sink and a few cupboards. We mostly eat off paper plates but we have a few pans, bowls, cups, silverware and plastic containers for leftovers. We have had a couple of larger family get-togethers and I manage to make it work within this small space. </div>
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I have not minded the improvised living. I just remember it is a means to an end. An end I am so excited for. The biggest drawback has been the dust!!!! Each new project brings dust, a new layer every day. Sometimes we write love notes to each other on the dust on the dining table!! I have to do a lot of cleaning but overall we are quite comfortable.</div>
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The hall walls were a mismash of different pieces and widths. It also had a door from between the family room and the hall. Perry wanted one straight shot down the hall. So we set out to remove a wall and move it 4 in.</div>
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This is a door that was originally at the beginning of the wall. Perry removed it and all the framing so that it was completely open to the walls and ceiling.</div>
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At the end of the hall just before the garage entrace was this cupboard area and half wall then it stepped down into a small landing. We removed the cupboards (went into my garden shed), half wall and the landing back to the front wall. I want a mudroom area here.</div>
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All cleared out. </div>
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Okay see this little jut out on the left. That is the wall Perry wanted moved so that it was straight with no jut. So it had to be moved.</div>
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Originally on the inside of that wall there was a second wall built about six inches from it. We removed that one a while ago. In the process of removing the hall wall we discovered it wasn't even nailed into the ceiling. </div>
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Next up was to frame the master closet on the other side of this wall.</div>
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Now, came the exciting part. We wanted to frame the master bath to the left of the closet. We needed to remove a 24 inch by about 10 foot piece of ceiling sheetrock to frame it. All of the ceiling and wall sheetrock will be coming out adventually but there is blow in insulation in the ceiling and we didn't want to clean it up yet. We figured if we just removed the piece where the wall needed to attach to the ceiling it would only be a little clean up. Best laid plans of mice and men!</div>
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Perry carefully cut the sheetrock, climbed on the ladder and started to gently pull on the piece.</div>
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OOPS!!!! The whole bathroom area ceiling sheetrock came down! It wasn't attached very well.</div>
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Wish I had it on video!!</div>
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10 bags of blow in insulation later!!</div>
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We have the World's Most Fantastic Home Teacher. He has been there for so many things for us and never misses a months visit. On this Saturday, he wanted to come help us frame. (P.S. this is our home teacher from Cedar Hills) He showed up with all his tools and his ladder and came to help. He spent all day helping. Thanks, Chuck Pritchett.</div>
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So we finally framed the master bathroom entrance. Brady and Miah came to help too.</div>
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Next was the master bedroom wall between the dining room and bedroom!! I was so excited to get this wall in. Really helped me to see the size of both of those rooms. So exciting to see wall go up instead of come down!!</div>
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Perry's parents asked to store their 5th wheel on our property so we arranged to meet them in Fountain Green. They also were willing to help with some work at the house. They said they could bring their chain saw to help take out some of our dead trees. Because no one lived in the house for about 9 months and renters in it for quite awhile before that, the yard and trees had not been watered. Some of the trees are way to large for us to remove but there were several that were small enough for us to cut down ourselves. <br />
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When Brady and Miah lived in the house, Brady removed limbs from this one in the front yard.</div>
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This pine tree was dead.</div>
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These three on the edge of my garden in the backyard needed removed.</div>
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We also removed a little stand of quakies on the side that were dead.</div>
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So we went to work. Perry and his Dad cut them down and then his Mom and I hauled branches to the burn pile and stacked big pieces in the wood shed.</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"> I was tending my granddaughter, Ryah, for the week so she came with us and she was a big help. She hauled branches that were taller than she was and almost as big around.</span></div>
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After we had them all removed and the wood hauled to the burn pile we lit a big bonfire. We had been piling up branches and weeds for the whole summer and it was quite a big pile. Flames were about 12 feet high.</div>
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I had seen several little fires being burned in the area and thought that since it was October, we were ok to burn it. Perry cleared weeds around the area and we brought the hose over. A few minutes in the fire chief showed up. "Can't burn til November," he said. But he was cool about it. Just stayed and visited for about an hour until it was almost burned out. </div>
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August 2017 Kitchen Framing and Moving Windows and Removing a door<br />
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After the kitchen floor was redone and the "bomb shelter" framed and shelving put in, the next thing was to frame out the old kitchen so that it too had square walls.<br />
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This is the west side of the addition from the exterior. We removed the freestanding Gazebo on the first demo day. The wall needed to go up right through the window on the right of the door. Our house has 7 exterior doors. We don't need 7 exterior doors so this one was coming out. It would have been in the master bedroom with the new floor plan.</div>
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Door and one of the windows. This door is in what will be the new master bedroom area.</div>
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These two windows are in the area where the master bathroom shower will be.</div>
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So Perry removed the door and 4 windows. Re-framed for 4 windows. Two in the master bedroom and two in the dining area. All on the same wall but in a different configuration.</div>
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Two reframed and installed windows.</div>
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Now, all looks pretty inside but outside was another story. To remove the windows we had to remove the vinyl siding. After the windows were moved we had to put the outside back together. We didn't want to buy new siding, although we did have to for the piece behind the tree, so we played puzzle with the pieces of siding. We got the whole thing around the two windows covered. It was quite the adventure. </div>
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After we got it all resided. I painted the blue shutters white and we removed the rest of the railing from the porch. Someday we will hang a porch swing here and sit out here and watch the sunset!</div>
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Now for the excitement that occurred in the process. Under one of these windows inside there is an access in the floor for the crawl space. It has a cover although not a very good one as Perry discovered. I was gone and he was working. He stepped on the cover, it shifted and he fell through to the crawl space in a kind of one foot up and one foot down sprawl. Left some great bruises and skinned elbows.</div>
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Since we bought the house, I have been so excited to get shelves built into it. I really wanted to just pack up my storage and canning supplies and move them in and put them on shelves. I didn't want them packed in boxes and stacked in the garage like everything else will be. I finally convinced Perry that we could get it done. I went down and painted all the walls and floors with Kilz paint to seal it all. (except that spot you can see on the floor. The ladder sat there. I still need to finish that spot. 😁) Perry went to work and designed real stairs for it instead of the existing ladder. Then he and I designed the shelves to fit everything in just right. In June, we bought the wood and headed down to Fountain Green. He and Chanse got it all framed and I had jars waiting to put in there. It still needs a light and eventually a spring loaded hatch door but it looks wonderful!!! I made another trip a couple of weeks later with all my buckets of wheat, canning supplies and a some of my jars of food. I love it!!!! I joking tell him that when the rest of the home is still in chaos during the remodel, I will just go down in my bomb shelter and enjoy the order. Thanks Guys!!! Makes this OCD girl happy!!!<br />
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<br />SWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00251126489814057879noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358472946530485851.post-41267246220972160342017-09-17T10:55:00.000-06:002017-09-17T10:55:42.292-06:00Spring in Fountain GreenSpring in Fountain Green<br />
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So our master plan calls for re-doing the yard after the house. BUT.... I love yard work and can not leave it alone. While Perry is busy inside or sometimes not there with me, I work in the yard. Spring brought some wonderful surprises in the flower beds.<br />
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Flowering Crab and one weed free flower bed.<br />
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Every flower bed is full of weeds and grass. The lawn grass is almost non-existent, it is just weeds. We water and mow and one area in front is starting to be more grass than weeds. The house was a rental for several years then was repossessed and sat empty for 9 months before we bought it. That nine months was from January to September. We have dead trees from lack of water, more weeds than grass and enough weeding to keep an army busy for a month. But I love bringing it back to its intended beauty. <br />
My mom and I planted a vegetable garden. Perry rota-tilled up a weed filled area in the back of the house. It was full of weed block which was obviously not working. It also had two big rubber mats under about 3 inches of dirt. We think at one time it was a sand box. I have been finding match box cars every time I weed. I was so excited to be able to transplant some of my raspberry plants. I planted 42 in the spring and I have 10 left. I was expecting that. In Cedar Hills I planted 3 rows, 2 x and ended up with 3 plants. In just a couple of years, I had 2 - 25 ft. rows. So as long as I have some plants that survive I can get my two rows from starts. <br />
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The garden has actually done really well, weeds and all. We have got zucchini, tomatoes and cucumbers. They raspberries are actually trying to bloom. The grasshoppers are pretty bad from the field but a little bug spray has helped. I spent 7 hours weeding last weekend. The wild geraniums are as tall as the plants. Oh well. It will get better over the years. And it does my heart good to see vegetables and raspberries growing. <br />
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<br />SWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00251126489814057879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358472946530485851.post-42704543214416364922017-08-16T14:36:00.000-06:002017-08-16T14:36:24.713-06:00Oh yeah ..... the floor!As you can tell I am not really a dedicated blogger. I really want a record of our little yellow house but struggle to be motivated enough to take the time to blog it. So with that said .....<br />
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The floor. We did get back down to the house in December just after Christmas to get the floor finished. It looks and functions so much better. It is level and fully supported. <br />
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After getting the floor done, we didn't work on anything for awhile. In early March we went down to clean and finish a few things in preparation for my mom to move in when she got back off her mission. She had sold her place in Spring City before she left and needed a place to stay while she home shopped. Most of the old part of the home needs cosmetic work to be livable. So we cleaned her bedroom and fixed a couple of things in the bathroom and kitchenette. She moved in shortly after she got back in March and stayed until she closed on a new home the end of June. She loved our clawfoot tub and was a great help in keeping the place clean, weeded and watered. </div>
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We also had a really big wind storm in April. We have some very large and old trees. They need to be trimmed and maybe completely removed but they are full of dead branches. When the wind blows, we have a lot of branches that come crashing down. This wind storm brought some big branches down. We had one go through the roof of the carport and just barely miss mom's car. </div>
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So after removing the tile floor in the kitchen we discovered a few problems. The kitchen floor has several different levels and is very unlevel. The floor is much worse than it looks in these pictures. This is part of the original house. The sub-floor boards run in two different directions with the top of a cement wall in middle that has been patched on top with plaster to try and bring it to the level of the floor. The wall is part of a cold storage room which is under the right hand side of the floor. It is about 10 x 10 and is accessed by a floor hatch. You can see the hatch next to the right side doorway. It still has brown tile on top of it. We want to put cupboards all along that wall so we want to move it to the wall on the right side.<br />
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Also when the cold storage room hatch was put in, floor joists were cut and not supported correctly. So the only thing to do to fix the multitude of problems was to pull up more floor and to replace the joists and correctly hang them.</div>
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So off they came. Don't you love the 2x4 support for the sawed off joists? And yes that ladder is how you access it. My grandmother had a ladder like this into her cold storage room when I was little. Her room was dirt walled and floored. It used to scare me to death to go down it. Later, proper stairs were put into hers but it still wasn't my favorite place to go. I don't know if this room was originally dirt or was added as an afterthought by subsequent owners. </div>
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Still have a little left to go and then when this half is done we will expose the left hand side and see what needs to be done to level it. This is all the basement we have. Can't wait to use it for long term food storage. I tell Perry it is our bomb shelter!! When we get it all in shape, Perry will build me lots of shelves and a several hundred pounds of wheat will go down there along with other food storage items. </div>
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*****After this trip we haven't been down to do anything except once to check that the furnaces were doing their job to keep things from freezing. All was well. Now that the holidays are over we plan on going down this week to keep working on this floor. I have high hopes that soon we can start some framing and building instead of tearing things out. 😏</div>
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<br />SWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00251126489814057879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358472946530485851.post-80085032940271690802016-11-28T19:32:00.000-07:002016-11-28T19:32:22.476-07:00More Demo!!More stuff to take care of . . . . . . A dormer had been added some time ago and had never had siding added to it. We wanted it sided before winter came. It had been tar papered and roofed but nothing else. At our big demo party we had rented a power tile remover tool. When we got to the house, the blade for it didn't fit right and it just didn't do the job. We didn't get the tile removed. Perry took the tool back to the rental business and they gave us a credit. Perry was able to go back and get the right blade this time for it and they gave him a hand held one more like a jack hammer. They said when he brought them back they would only charge him for the one that worked. So we headed out for another Saturday at the house. Miah and Brady came over from Ephraim to help. We really appreciated it. (Oct. 8, 2016)<br />
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Kitchen tile - To the left is another door not shown in this picture but we found tile laid over tile. This kitchen area is in the original part of the house. It is all adobe brick walls with plaster over the walls and then in some places sheet rock glued over that.</div>
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All cleaned up. The square of tile on the floor in the back is the trap door to our cold storage room. Going to be moving that as we want cupboards and stove on this wall. </div>
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This is the dormer in the roof. It is in a small room put into the attic above the kitchen. The room contains washer and dryer hook ups with the vent going out the side of this dormer. We removed the vent, sided and added soffit and facia to it.</div>
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The next Saturday (Oct. 15) we went down to do some general clean up. It is so hard to stay away!!! We wish we could just spend all our time down there but real life carries on. The laminate flooring in the family rooms and down the hall had to come up and we needed to take out more of the wall in the master bedroom/bathroom area. </div>
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The wiring in the whole house has been replaced which is nice because there is no dangerous knob and tube left. HOWEVER . . . whoever wired it did some really weird things. For example, the east wall of the family room is on the same breaker as the west wall of the office. About half the rooms are on multiple breakers instead of being on the same one. We have a bedroom and a garage with no power to anything so we knew we would have to do some rewiring. So Perry decided the whole addition needs the sheet rock removed so we can see exactly what is going on with the wiring. We only want to remove the sheet rock on the interior walls as we wanted the extra insulation for the walls over the winter. So the next trip (Oct. 29) we started that process. Alex and Leslie were our helpers for this portion. Leslie and I loaded the truck and made trips to the dump while they removed sheet rock. We made 3 trips. </div>
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This is an area in the hall off the garage. It almost looked like it was a cooking area for another apartment. Hotplate maybe? When we removed the sheet rock we found yet another set of washer dryer hookups in the wall. We think it is the one the neighbor told us that the drain went into the ground under the house?!?! We are going to put a mudroom type area here; bench, cubbyholes, hooks, etc.</div>
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Family room sheet rock coming off. We are also opening up the wall above the doorway. We removed the door and plan on leaving the hall open. The hole in the wall was a decorative? cubby in the family room. There is a gas line by this wall so we are planing on putting in a gas fireplace here. This wall is one of our lovely walls that are 2 separate 2x6 walls back to back. Plenty deep for the fireplace without it sticking out into the room too far. </div>
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Mudroom area. Room behind it is one with out power. Plugs and lights and electric heater in it but no power getting to any of it. You can't see the washer dryer hook ups. </div>
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This was our surprise for the day. Found it in the room behind mudroom area. No idea what it goes too or if it is hooked up. It's on!! 😁</div>
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So just to explain. The first addition was added in 1994? It was the two family rooms. Originally they were a family room and bedroom. This was added directly onto the back of the original house. The exterior wall of the old house was partially removed, a load bearing beam added and the rooms added. This made the kitchen open to the family room. Next in about 2000 a garage and utility room was added onto that addition. This left a U shaped opening in the west side of the house which it looks like was some sort of patio. Some time in 2005 the u shaped opening was closed in by framing inside the existing exterior walls therefore giving us 2 walls with 2x6 double walls. And then we have no idea when it was all turned into apartments with more interior walls and doors added. </div>
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Please let me know if this does not work!! Thanks. Enjoy!!SWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00251126489814057879noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358472946530485851.post-46748002400188573472016-11-10T20:31:00.001-07:002016-11-10T20:31:51.405-07:00Demolition!!! <span style="font-size: large;">Have you watched those shows where they are doing renovations and thought that it looked like fun to tear out cupboards and knock out walls?? Guess what . . . it is!!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Our children had mixed reviews on us moving and buying such a fixer upper. Some thought it was awesome, some thought we were a little crazy, some couldn't believe we were moving farther away, some were sad to think that we would be selling the only home that they had ever known. BUT all were excited to tear things apart!! We scheduled a demolition day for the next Saturday and told them to come join us. We packed the tools and bought and rented a few more. We rented a very large dumpster and had it delivered the day before. We packed a cooler with lunch fixings and everyone's favorite drinks and went south for a Demo Party. Wahoo!!! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Our son, Zach, our daughter, Leslie and her husband, Alex came. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Our teenage son, Chanse and his friend, Bryson came to help also. Chanse and Bryson went down Friday night to spend the night in the house and do a little gun shooting in the hills. I gave them the key to the house and they loaded their vehicle with sleeping bags, cots and treats and off they went. When they got there I had given them the wrong key and they were locked out. They tried all the windows until they found one they could wedge open and climb in. We were glad to know which one needed reinforced. The house had a few uninvited visitors in the previous weeks and we thought we had it all secured. Anyway, several minutes later the sheriff showed up at the front door (good to know he was watching). They explained what the situation was, he checked their ID's and told them to have a good time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>SWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00251126489814057879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358472946530485851.post-54537810001359366082016-11-10T19:32:00.001-07:002016-11-10T19:33:40.853-07:00<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>AND SO THE PLAN BEGINS:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> So we had several things that we wanted in our plans for this house but weren't sure whether they were even possible. This home when it was owned by a person instead of the bank had been added onto 3 times. We went to the city and got copies of all the plans that had been submitted to the planning commission so we could see what had been done to it. (Side note: the plans submitted to the city were pen drawings of walls, no other details.) When that owner decided to move away he turned it into 3? separate apartments. We have 8 exterior doors, 4 sets of washer dryer hook-ups (one hidden in a wall), possibly 3 kitchens, a weird little exposed gap between the bedroom and the hall, two interior walls that are double framed 2x6 and a myriad of other odd things. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> As part of our plans we wanted to open part of the wall between the two family rooms and expand the bedroom and en suite for a master suite. The ceiling in those two rooms is vaulted but the wall between was not right on the peak it was off-centered. We thought it odd that it was off centered. We knew that to open it up would probably require an engineered beam. $$$$</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Perry wanted an auto lift in the shop and needed 220 volt power. We didn't see any existing and there was a lot of concrete sidewalks and porches between the house and shop. $$$$ but we budgeted them in and went on.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> We went to the house to set up our city bills and do more investigation a couple of days after the sale was final. We were told by the city water guy that we had a leak between the water meter and the house that needed the line to be replaced to fix it. He gave us a number for a local plumbing guy who could fix it. $$$ We went to the house to do more investigation. Perry cut a hole in the sheet rock so he could see into the ceiling above the vaulted part. Guess what?? They were scissor trusses which bear their own weight. No beam needed. More investigation into the shop discovered that there was 220 v power already out there!!! Oh Happy Day!!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Now we just needed the water line replaced. I called the plumber several days later and he said he would call me back after the weekend and we would set up a time that I could meet him there so he could check it out. We had plans to go back on Saturday to start tearing a few things apart and make a run to the dump. On Friday night I woke up in the middle of the night with the thought to take the shovel with us. Why??? I had no plans to do anything outside. I had no need for a shovel. Then I remembered a wet spot in the grass in the backyard that we had seen earlier in the week. We had attributed it to a low spot in the yard where the recent rain had pooled. The thought came to me that this was where our water leak was. When we left Saturday I put a shovel in the truck. When we got there I got the shovel and asked Perry to come take a look. There in the weeds was an outdoor faucet and sprinkler head we hadn't noticed before. (weeds were too tall) It was still wet. Perry started digging down and found that the pipe was broke and leaking. He capped it for now. I called the city water guy, told him what we had found and asked if he would check our meter a couple of times over </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the next few days to see if it was still using water. (The water inside the house was turned off.) He called a few days later to say the meter hadn't changed. Another happy day. We have found several more minor things that have run in our favor as we have begun our renovation. We have felt blessed and grateful.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> So here are the existing floor plan and our plan for renovation. These do not include the upstairs floor above the home teacher room, office and kitchen. That area is another 2 bedrooms, bath and playroom. </span><br />
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I was looking again on August 2nd and IT WAS BACK ON THE LISTING. I ran to tell Perry. He asked if I was serious about it and I said that I thought so. I asked if he was serious and he said ya I think so. But how do you buy a house without the income from the sale of another? And without another mortgage? Back to day dreaming!<br />
The next morning Perry said I think I know how to finance that house without taking another mortgage. We talked about it and I said, "We can ask Doug (a guy in our ward). He does a lot with real estate and financing. And maybe he can find out why the sale failed." (couldn't get financing) We had tried to get information from the real estate agent and could get no one to return our calls. <br />
I headed out the door to go do my daily walking and during my walk I ran across guess who? Doug!! I have never seen him during my walks. (Or since either.) I stopped him, told him what we were thinking and asked if he could get some information on the house for us!! He was really excited because he has wanted to redo an old house himself. He said he would check it out that afternoon and get back to us. <br />
About an hour after I got back, Doug called and said he had talked to the real estate agent. He gave us some info. and said if we were really interested he could put in a provisional offer today. A provisional offer if accepted is good for 3 weeks during which time you can check it out, get a home inspection, etc. At the end of the 3 weeks you can proceed with the sale or you can take your earnest money and walk away. I said let me talk to Perry and I'll call you back. 5 minutes later I called him back and said let's do it. So the offer went in, they countered, we accepted the counter and we were on our way!!! <br />
We immediately went down to the house and started REALLY poking into every corner nook and cranny of the house. The front part of the house is the original 1914 home and the back is the 1990+ additions. Upstairs the original house has 2 bedrooms, a full bath and a funny little room that we called the playroom (for grandchildren) that had been made out of the back attic over the kitchen.<br />
(Disclaimer: pictures are not the best and you really need a wide angle lens to get the full room, you can't see anywhere near all the intricacies of the rooms. And i haven't used this program in a really long time. Hopefully I will get better. We will gladly give tours or share our hundreds of pictures. : )<br />
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Downstairs in the original house is two rooms (We call the one directly off the front door the home teacher room and the one to the west, the office). It also has a kitchen with a 3/4 bath off it and a kitchenette. The addition contained a family room off the kitchen, a second family room off the kitchenette, a bedroom with an en suite and two more bedrooms.<br />
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Kitchen and family room<br />
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Kitchenette<br />
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It also has an attached two car garage and a small laundry room built off the front of the kitchen. The house has been divided into 3 apartments so it has 6 exterior doors, 3 washer dryer hookups(later we found a fourth inside a wall), 2 furnaces and a cold storage room under the kitchen with an old fashioned floor hatch and wood ladder to get into it. There was a free standing gazebo outside one of the doors and a wood deck built onto the back porch which contained a hot tub. It is a hodge podge of places and spaces. <br />
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free standing gazebo to the right attached garage<br />
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The original house has some structural problems. Cracks in the brick mortar, a cement pillar poured on the exterior to shore up the walls, a crack or two in the inside walls, bolts ran through the second story floor to shore it up. So we called an inspector. The next week he went and inspected it for us. The report was very long but his overall conclusion was that it was full of little problems but nothing major. I really couldn't see anything that did not need something done to it, inside or out but we loved it. I asked Perry over and over if he was sure he wanted to tackle this project. It is a lot of work and he has to do most of it. He told me he had done some research on the computer on old house structural problems and how to fix them. He said worse case scenario the front corner collapses and we rebuild it. He said he was sure. We fasted, we prayed, we researched. We spent sleepless nights. No not worrying - designing, tearing apart, rebuilding, decorating, etc. So we moved forward with the purchase.<br />
HOLY PAPERWORK!!!!!!! Between the financing we needed to complete the sale paperwork, the actual cash sale paperwork, the home inspection and final closing, it was something every day for a month. Almost everything is done by emailing or attaching files to online secure websites. We even closed on the house on line!!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> But finally we were the owners . . . . </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> of a bright yellow house with a little picket fence!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Stay tuned as the demolition begins!!!</span><br />
SWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00251126489814057879noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358472946530485851.post-4033723535519427302016-10-31T20:06:00.000-06:002016-10-31T20:06:18.502-06:00Our Old House - Acquisition Part 1Sorry this may get long. But this is for my own journal as well.<br />
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THE LONG AND SHORT OF HOW WE BOUGHT A HOUSE -<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> It has always been a dream of Perry and I's to move out of the hubbub of the big city. As Perry's job has always required him to be near the city, we figured it would be something we would do when he retired. We have had places that we loved and that we thought we would look at then. </span><br />
I have always had a hobby of looking at MLS home listings to see what was for sale. I like to look and dream and see what is out there and what the possibilities are. It is a fun hobby!!<br />
Perry about two years ago asked at work what the company policy was on telecommuting. His boss said they didn't have one and if he wanted to try 2 days a week they would see how it went. The group he works with works out of a couple of different offices across the US and they communicate 95% of everything through emails, conference calls and skype type meetings. So he started at two days a week which soon turned into 3 which soon turned into 5. Nobody even knew. They now have several guys who don't even live in a city with an office. As long as he has an internet connection, he can work from anywhere.<br />
So with that event and the fact that our youngest will graduate from high school in the spring and then leave on a mission, we decided to start thinking about moving sooner. We started considering several areas and I started doing more of my hobby. We figured we would get serious next spring. <br />
Our favorite area was out pricing our budget and headed for a major influx of people so we decided that maybe we would consider Sanpete County as it would be closer to my mom, it is reasonably priced, still fairly close to the Wasatch front and not too far from the grandkids. And best of all RURAL!!!! I started perusing the Sanpete County MLS listings for fun. After all I had a whole year or so before we would be really looking. Who knew? I found some fun houses and enjoyed looking. <br />
In June we decided to go "WANDERING" one weekend for our anniversary (definition of "WANDERING": to travel in the car with no real plan, maybe a destination and maybe not. No reservations, Just drive and see where one ends up, may be for n hour, may be for days.) We did have a destination in mind though. We though we would wander through Sanpete County and see if any one town seemed like a likely place to land some day. I had found several houses that were listed for sale in different places through out the county that we thought we would just drive by and see what they looked like. None of them were "the house" just a random assortment of possibilities.<br />
Now, just as a side note, we had a few ideas of things we really wanted to have in our next home. Big gathering area for family dinners, shop for Perry or place to put one, a little space between us and the neighbors, still enough bedrooms for family when they come home, along with not going into debt for it. <br />
So anyway, we headed off with our list of houses and blankets and pillows in case we had to sleep in the car. The first place we stopped in Sanpete County was a little town called Fountain Green. Population 1100, one gas station, one grill/grocery store, Quaint, quiet, pretty. The house we wanted to drive by was a 1914 Victorian with an addition and a separate shop sitting on a little over one acre.<br />
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It was a foreclosure and gov't owned. (FannieMae/Freddie Mac). As we drove by I said to Perry, "It's empty lets go look in the windows." So we did and lo and behold a door was open in the garage!!! So in we went. Shhh don't tell!!!!!! We loved it and could see so much potential. We spent over an hour looking and discussing the possibilities. We left and wandered on to the next town and listing. We looked at quite a few more little towns and several listings. We eventually stopped in Fairview, ate dinner at a local restaurant and booked a hotel room. <br />
Perry said, "I wish we had a tape measure." "Why?" I replied. "So we could go back and and measure rooms." "The grocery store will have one." So we went to the grocery store, bought a tape measure and went back. We spent another hour measuring and sketching a floor plan. We left and spent the evening planning and plotting. Now mind you this was all very hypothetical. We had a house and 9 months before our son graduated. But it was so much fun to imagine!!!<br />
We finished the weekend with more little towns and more house drive-bys. It was a great weekend. We returned home with only two houses that we would even consider IF we were looking for real. One that was overpriced for our budget and the little yellow victorian. Neither of which would still be on the market by the time we were really ready to move!!<br />
A few weeks later, the victorian went off the market as an offer had been put on it. I was kinda bummed. That was our house. I looked at other listings online but nothing had the character or potential that it had. Oh well such is life and it was all just a fun day dream anyway. Or was it?<br />
Watch for the next installment coming soon!<br />
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