As I crawl up to the computer, dragging my sorry behind into the chair, sit down and shake for a few moments.............
I'm sick, man am I sick, last night I started to feel off about 6PM, we were really busy at the L shop, hopping, lots of deliveries, and the shop was selling beer like it was going out of style
About 9PM, I simply had to go home and lay down, I had a fever of 37.7C (99.9F) took some pills and tried to sleep, no can do, man I felt LOUSY. This AM, only a slight fever, 36.9C (98.4F). Not to worry, no N1H1, that is with a high fever, 39C+ (102.2+) and I feel sort of human today, no Aparto work, still got to do the L shop deliveries...........
Back to the aparto
We got some good progress, demoed some walls and also lifted up the floor in the one area that I was worried about water damage, the threshold into the Bath Room.
As I knew, the floor and the beam under it were going to be rotten, and I was right, but I was also pleased to find that it is very much confined to this area, and not all over, like in the first place.
You can see the 2x4 that I sistered onto the rotten beam about 8 years ago, when I did a quick fix patch job on the threshold, it worked, in that the floor did not fall in, but it was just a band aid on a larger problem
I've torn out the entire rotten beam, it is gone, and I'll replace it with a new one, as well as correctly installing the new Bath Room door later, which will fix the problem for good.
While I was doing that Jake was tackling the walls in the other room. He got the first layer of drywall like stuff down, only to find a second layer of what I would describe as "Wattle". Boy is this stuff a mess.
Yuck!
Jake put the respirator on and went to work. Fortunately, not all the walls are like this, but there is still a lot of it to remove. I need to remove it, as I want to properly insulate and vapour seal the walls and floors.
No more closet wall!
By making the two small rooms into, more or less, one large room, there will be heating and cooling issues to think about, the better insulated everything is, but less of an issue combining the rooms will become.
Oh yeah, while I was cleaning up, I found this printed on the back of one of the chunks of drywall...........
........... I'm quite sure that this means "Showa 58, June 20th" which would be "1983 June 20th" making it the right timeline for when these places were last renovated, once every 25 years of so, I guess I'll be back here in 2034 ;D
At the end of the day, we have a good collection of bags of rubble for the garbage guys, I've contracted with them to come next Wednesday, I hope to be able to get the entire inside demoed, except for the floors, by then, but we shall see how it goes!
That is it for now, no work to be done over there until Monday at the earliest, we have our big local festival this weekend, I'll be busy, so I sure hope to kick this bug I got now.
Cheers!