We have sub-floors! (almost!)
Over the weekend we worked a lot on finishing up the floors. I actually helped quite a bit. I started off by just doing some measuring to try to speed things up for Damien but by the end of the weekend I was using the saw and laying pieces all by myself. I can now say I'm perfectly comfortable around a circular saw. At least the one we have anyways.The floors are not perfect but they will do. All areas (except for the one we cut out) have flooring underneath already anyways so it's not a big deal that they did not come out perfect. There is still plenty of floor under it to keep us safe and sturdy. The floors are not all screwed down so that's why it looks like some areas are sticking up. Damien needs to go back through and screw them all down. Abigail has a real hard time listening to the saw even with headphones on so we were just trying to get everything cut this weekend so we can put the saw away because it is LOUD.
This is the area we had to cut up because there was a hole in the floor. Damien bought some brackets at Home Depot for .76 each that held the pieces of 2x4. Originally he thought 4 would be enough but he is probably going to end up adding 3 more in between because it didn't feel quite sturdy enough to him with the replacement boards we got. This part of the remodel only ended up costing us somewhere around $20... which is way less than it looked like it was going to cost when I originally saw the huge hole! Hopefully it will be done tomorrow evening.
All in all we ended up buying 17 sheets of plywood to cover all the floors. We also bought two smaller pieces that were much thicker to fill in the hole in the bedroom.
My project for this week will be getting the kitchen half decent looking and the bathroom. I keep forgetting to get photos of the bathroom. Here is how the kitchen looked when we got it.
That fridge does not work so we had to have that hauled away. And as you can see - there is no stove. We hope to have that changed by the weekend. As of now we have no appliances at all. We have been checking out Craigslist and yard sale Facebook pages looking for them at a great price. We really don't want to buy brand new appliances for the trailer since we will be buying brand new appliances for the house within the next year or so. We thought about just buying them now and then moving them to the other house but I have my eye on really nice appliances for the other house... ones we certainly can not afford right now.
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