House Up Date...

It was a big week on Oteneagen Road - the Johnson's met their Monday deadline. It is hard to explain the magnitude of what was accomplished but I'm going to try for those of you who are following the story.

1) Floor beams, center beams and beams holding up the floor all came out. It was not ALL of the beams but it was approximately 8-10 on each side of the house. Any beam that looked as though it had been burnt went...

2) There are three layers of flooring that needed to come out of the whole house... carpet, thick board (for lack of a better word!:)) and the sub-flooring. Mind you - some of these were screwed in...

3) If you're taking out all the flooring - all the walls need to come with it.

4) All the sheet-rock, insulation and wiring needed to be pulled.

5) Now that we have succesfully tore everything out - we needed to start putting it back... one beam, sub-flooring and screw at a time.

As of today at 5:30pm... the last of everything was carried out of the house and it is ready for the cleaners tomorrow. It's amazing how clean the house already smells with fresh boards... I hope it stays that way once the doors/windows are shut.

The house looking towards the bedrooms/hallway/dinning room...

Standing in the parents' bedroom looking towards the kitchen...