Repairs Ongoing II

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Well we are now pretty much done upstairs, with the exception of trimming out around a few doors. So my wife started moving down the stairs and is now working in the dining room. The floating shelf has been taken down, for sanding and a coat of paint. Some holes filled here and there in the walls, they'll get a coat of primer then they'll be ready for paint.

I get to take the light down, clean it and give it a coat of oil brushed bronze to match the rest of the light fixtures in the house, the apex of the ceiling in the dining room is 22 feet from the floor. Glad I'm not going to be up there painting. Back in 1995 I was on an extension ladder with a Wagner Sprayer painting that corner in the high point when the ladder slipped. I fell 18 feet and bounced off the microwave then the microwave cart. I was pretty bruised up and skinned up from my calves to my neck. I refused to go back up on the ladder, and the corner never did get completely painted until 2010 when my wife repainted all the rooms.

[Junk Yard Dog]

Pretty high off the ground, it's not the height that would bother me, it's the fall and the impact. Not a big fan of heights, feet belong on the ground. Good job!

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Bedroom 2 (Upstairs) showing hurricane damage, demo and completed project.

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Bedroom 3 (Upstairs) showing hurricane damage, demo and completed project.

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Old gunroom/office (Upstairs) now the playroom showing hurricane damage, demo and completed project.

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Guest bathroom (Upstairs) showing hurricane damage, demo and completed project.

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Pretty high off the ground, it's not the height that would bother me, it's the fall and the impact. Not a big fan of heights, feet belong on the ground. Good job!

The impact hurt like hell. Broke the microwave, microwave cart, but never let go of the paint sprayer and didn't break it. Went by the base hospital the next morning on my way to work. Along with the bruising, scrapes, and contusions, I had chipped my shin-bone on both legs. I was actually surprised I didn't do more damage to myself.

it's not the fall that kills you or hurts you, it's the sudden stop and the end of the ride that does.......

Basically every room in the house, had drywall damage to some degree. It ranged from water damage, physical damage from the house breathing/flexing or both. Every window except the kitchen took damage, ranging from cracks to completely busted. Both sliding glass doors on the back of the house took damage, one of them the inside pane shattered, the other door twisted. The front storm door, the trim holding the glass in broke, but the glass didn't. Kitchen to the garage door the frame around the glass broke, and again the glass didn't.

All flooring and carpeting took water damage and is being replaced. All flooring upstairs is done, after the dining room and kitchen repaint is done, we'll put new flooring in there.

That will leave us with the livingroom and MBR carpet, which will be pulled and matching flooring put down instead. MBR BR complete gut and remodel, livingroom back wall completely gutted, both sliding doors removed, one new one placed in the middle instead.

Then the garage, complete gut, cement floor leveled, matching flooring put down, garage enclosed.

Then we'll move to the exterior cosmetic repairs.

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My wife got the high wall and ceiling in the dining room painted. Now it's just a matter of staining the wooden box we made that will encapsulate that ugly and gnarly looking chunk of drywall covered 4x4 sticking out the ceiling for the chandelier. We'll install that tomorrow, and re-hang the floating shelf also.

Then we'll finish disassembling the scaffolding so it can be returned.

As for the ugly kitchen to garage door with the racoon pass through that JYD mentioned. When the temps start going down and staying down, I get to take it down, sand it, fill the dings with bondo, sand and smooth, primer, paint, and replace the window and window frame.

I would do it now, but the humidy and heat is just too damn high.

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Here's the ugly kitchen to garage door I mentioned, the over-pressurization of the house broke the frame holding the glass in. Plus the seal between the panes also failed at that time, so new glass and new frame. Will sand, bondo the dings and dents, sand again, primer and paint it once the weather cools off some.

Humidy and heat is too high to do that right now, even though there is central air ran to the garage. The ceiling damage makes it pointless, so I have closed the vents off out there until winter.

[Rowdy1]

Well we are now pretty much done upstairs, with the exception of trimming out around a few doors. So my wife started moving down the stairs and is now working in the dining room. The floating shelf has been taken down, for sanding and a coat of paint. Some holes filled here and there in the walls, they'll get a coat of primer then they'll be ready for paint.

I get to take the light down, clean it and give it a coat of oil brushed bronze to match the rest of the light fixtures in the house, the apex of the ceiling in the dining room is 22 feet from the floor. Glad I'm not going to be up there painting. Back in 1995 I was on an extension ladder with a Wagner Sprayer painting that corner in the high point when the ladder slipped. I fell 18 feet and bounced off the microwave then the microwave cart. I was pretty bruised up and skinned up from my calves to my neck. I refused to go back up on the ladder, and the corner never did get completely painted until 2010 when my wife repainted all the rooms.

My uncle was painting some outside trim on his two story. Forgot he was on a ladder and stepped back to see what he had missed. Broke both ankles.

[ffuries]

Well we are now pretty much done upstairs, with the exception of trimming out around a few doors. So my wife started moving down the stairs and is now working in the dining room. The floating shelf has been taken down, for sanding and a coat of paint. Some holes filled here and there in the walls, they'll get a coat of primer then they'll be ready for paint.

I get to take the light down, clean it and give it a coat of oil brushed bronze to match the rest of the light fixtures in the house, the apex of the ceiling in the dining room is 22 feet from the floor. Glad I'm not going to be up there painting. Back in 1995 I was on an extension ladder with a Wagner Sprayer painting that corner in the high point when the ladder slipped. I fell 18 feet and bounced off the microwave then the microwave cart. I was pretty bruised up and skinned up from my calves to my neck. I refused to go back up on the ladder, and the corner never did get completely painted until 2010 when my wife repainted all the rooms.

My uncle was painting some outside trim on his two story. Forgot he was on a ladder and stepped back to see what he had missed. Broke both ankles.

All it takes is one bad fall, you teach you that ladders aren't your friends.

Second ladder incident I had was when I was on the roof, replacing the attic fan dome. I went to get off the peak and onto the ladder and somehow caused the ladder to slide sideways, I missed the ladder and slid down the front side of the asphalt single roof, thank God the it's only 7 feet from the edge of the roof to the ground and I landed in the grass.

You can see the angle and height in this picture.

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Me and the chandelier had a long fight with each other last night. We took it down so it could get cleaned and all (Convinced her to leave the color alone). Well if the damn thing wasn't so expensive ($700.00 - $1,000.00) I would have thrown it away. No we didn't pay for it, it was a gift.

We were up til 0500 this morning dealing with it. My wife took it down and went to lay it on its side and water poured out. Apparently there has been water inside the arms since the storm, Oct 2018, from the roof leaks. I hooked new wire to the old wire and pulled new wires through for 9 receptacles. Inspected all the bulb receptacles, took compressed air and blew through the arms to ensure no more water remained. Turned it every which way to make sure no more drained, and it's been hanging upside down since to make sure.

The old wiring looked fine after I inspected it, but what's done is done, and it now has all fresh wiring.

Figured we'd give a day or two before we re-install it.

My ass is still dragging, going to be an early night tonight......

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Here about 40 minutes ago, we finally finished re-hanging that damn chandelier. That hunk of lighting was a pain in my ass. It's been completely cleaned of dust and other stuff, dried out, re-wired (That brought about plenty of profanity and I think I created some new words).

The floating shelf has been re-hung along with the wine caddy and the wine glass rack. The wife wasted no time in getting the shelf decorated.....

Now we'll work on replacing the front door, new flooring, cabinet refinnish, trimming out openings in the kitchen and dining room and they will be complete. Then most likely take a break until January.