Help from Family!!

March 27-29, 2018

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!!

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.

New window in master bathroom.

And half wall for toilet separation.

Finish step installation in hall.

Replace back door.  Before:

 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.  

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.

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.

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.

BEFORE:

AFTER:  the spot on the left is one of the places where there was a tarp.

If anyone has some spare time, I still have about 3/4 of an acre to go!

I also spent quite a while scrubbing down these two doors. They were disgusting. We have no dog but it came with the house and the younger grandkids think this is a great way to get in the house because they can't reach the door handle!   Think I'll add a little vinyl.

THANKS VICKY AND RICK!!