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Apr. 18th, 2014 06:11 pmI have worked my entire day off - no surprise. I did go on a date this morning since my gf is out of town - I took myself out for coffee. I didn't get any, but I liked my company.
In unrelated news, I bribed Jason with food for kitchen design ideas. I think I've got a new design that I like. Also, sushi. Scott there was a huge plus, also a huge plus the note that you can replace old radiator steel pipes with copper! Duh! Smaller and easier, sign me up.
After coffee I came home, played a game, did some money stuff, and took a nap - only wake realizing I forgot I had to be at my home 12-2 for a post-settlement pest inspection. So I got all my house and gym gear and headed downtown. Arriving downtown I realized I forgot my entertainment/laptop. Well, it would only be a few hours...boredom set in immediately so I started working.
1. Opened all the windows since the flood dampness still exists/stinks.
2. Got curious about what damage was behind the wood paneled walls, so I started yoinking panels down. Then more. Then most of them. The good news was - the mortar damage in some bricks seemed located at the bottom - there was flood damage all over. No problem (I had no problems I couldn't have prevented the huge storms we just had).
3. Stairs - decided to pull off the paneling...only to find it framed with cinder blocks. The wall that frames in the stairs? Load bearing - the joists rest on it (so you can go up the stairs; makes sense but I hadn't though of that). Electrical seems to come out of bricks - wow.
4. Went upstairs and decided to pull more flooring up in the hallway to see how it was - SCORE. HUGE SCORE.
See http://vicar.livejournal.com/pics/catalog/3321 pics 4, 5, 3 (I can't get the order to change LAME)
Turns out the hallway not only has parquet wood, but it's in great fucking condition AND it has a gorgeous pattern around the outside just like the sold-for-over-a-mil house I toured! The bad-idea-tiles saved the floor from wear and tear.
5. Then pest inspection arrived, and all the world went to shit. The guy was on time in their 2-hour window, and we went to the oddball place where they found (wood powder beetle?) evidence. He found it odd in that location that there wasn't more, but noted this was so isolated it could have predated the home and just not been noticed all this time. I noted that originally we were worried about termites because of the windows. Oh, he said...
Understand he walked into a construction zone, with the floor covered with destroyed wood paneling, drywall, and holes (test digs).
I showed him, carefully and with warnings, and he agreed the wood sounded very rotted around the window, BUT he couldn't find out without poking holes in it. I gestured around the room, "What's another hole in the wall?" and pushed in with my thumb; it gave way. It all gave way.
TERMITES HAD EATEN THE ENTIRE WINDOW FRAME.
(see pic 2)
6. On the very plus side I pulled up a lot more tile from the dining room (truly hope it's not asbestos) to find more good condition parquet flooring. See the final pic with my shoe and toolbox.
7. But I may have found a hole in the floor outside the bathroom patched with ... spackle.
8. Pulled some tiles from the kitchen to find it is on some sort of textured mesh foamy crap, and that is only on plywood - so there is no floor to be saved under the junk in the kitchen.
In unrelated news, I bribed Jason with food for kitchen design ideas. I think I've got a new design that I like. Also, sushi. Scott there was a huge plus, also a huge plus the note that you can replace old radiator steel pipes with copper! Duh! Smaller and easier, sign me up.
After coffee I came home, played a game, did some money stuff, and took a nap - only wake realizing I forgot I had to be at my home 12-2 for a post-settlement pest inspection. So I got all my house and gym gear and headed downtown. Arriving downtown I realized I forgot my entertainment/laptop. Well, it would only be a few hours...boredom set in immediately so I started working.
1. Opened all the windows since the flood dampness still exists/stinks.
2. Got curious about what damage was behind the wood paneled walls, so I started yoinking panels down. Then more. Then most of them. The good news was - the mortar damage in some bricks seemed located at the bottom - there was flood damage all over. No problem (I had no problems I couldn't have prevented the huge storms we just had).
3. Stairs - decided to pull off the paneling...only to find it framed with cinder blocks. The wall that frames in the stairs? Load bearing - the joists rest on it (so you can go up the stairs; makes sense but I hadn't though of that). Electrical seems to come out of bricks - wow.
4. Went upstairs and decided to pull more flooring up in the hallway to see how it was - SCORE. HUGE SCORE.
See http://vicar.livejournal.com/pics/catalog/3321 pics 4, 5, 3 (I can't get the order to change LAME)
Turns out the hallway not only has parquet wood, but it's in great fucking condition AND it has a gorgeous pattern around the outside just like the sold-for-over-a-mil house I toured! The bad-idea-tiles saved the floor from wear and tear.
5. Then pest inspection arrived, and all the world went to shit. The guy was on time in their 2-hour window, and we went to the oddball place where they found (wood powder beetle?) evidence. He found it odd in that location that there wasn't more, but noted this was so isolated it could have predated the home and just not been noticed all this time. I noted that originally we were worried about termites because of the windows. Oh, he said...
Understand he walked into a construction zone, with the floor covered with destroyed wood paneling, drywall, and holes (test digs).
I showed him, carefully and with warnings, and he agreed the wood sounded very rotted around the window, BUT he couldn't find out without poking holes in it. I gestured around the room, "What's another hole in the wall?" and pushed in with my thumb; it gave way. It all gave way.
TERMITES HAD EATEN THE ENTIRE WINDOW FRAME.
(see pic 2)
6. On the very plus side I pulled up a lot more tile from the dining room (truly hope it's not asbestos) to find more good condition parquet flooring. See the final pic with my shoe and toolbox.
7. But I may have found a hole in the floor outside the bathroom patched with ... spackle.
8. Pulled some tiles from the kitchen to find it is on some sort of textured mesh foamy crap, and that is only on plywood - so there is no floor to be saved under the junk in the kitchen.
