Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Forward Movement
Posted by JennyOur house is finally progressing again!
Kevin met with the heating installation neighbor and they measured the whole place and made a list of what to buy.
We also got an estimate today on repairing and replacing all the windows in the house. Windows make it insurable, and having screens against the wretched Pittsburgh mosquitoes would be wonderful bliss. The only window that’s an issue is the rounded one broken out on the side that the window guy doesn’t know how to replace ... weird.
Also took a serious look at our floors and some are so badly damaged from the leaks that they can’t be sanded, they just crumble when you touch them. We’ve determined that about half needs to have a new subfloor laid and the other half is salvageable. Kevin’s all into covering it with OSB and using vinyl tiles everywhere ... we’ve made a compromise to cover the kitchen, bathrooms and hallways and try to restore the front two rooms on each level where the leaks weren’t as bad. The bedroom is still a problem, that has serious floor damage and will need to have the support installed but I don’t want vinyl tiles, no matter how cool the colors are, in my bedroom. And I hate the idea of installing wood over a subfloor that is over real wood ... argh. Any brilliant insight on that one?
