It's never as easy as that...
Sep. 2nd, 2008 08:27![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mapsedgeAs long as we're redoing the floor, honey, why don't we replace the window, too? Center it, move it down so it's more in line with the rest of the windows in the house...
A new cabinet on the opposite wall, too, that'd be nice, something we can put candles on...
Y'know, an outlet would be nice just above the countertop - oh yeah, need to build a new countertop for the new cabinet - so we can plug in a nightlight or something decorative.
Once the cabinet is in, we'll need to take out all the shelving, so you'll need to build some storage on the side porch for it all...
So it goes.
The old window was wood, never properly finished, and right at the junction of two sections of roof where it could be sure to catch run-off from both in the case of rain, which happens from time to time in Missouri. Naturally, the surrounding trim was rotten, held together mostly by the paint. The nails holding the exterior trim were rusted almost completely away.
No surprises in the wall. More boards in the wall that didn't go anywhere. The window itself was held in place only by the trim inside and outside. With the trim gone it just - more or less - fell out. It was framed in on one side by a stud, with a reverse "gamma"* of 2x4s nailed to that. No real support at all. Except the trim.
A little termite damage, but nothing to write home about.
Left To Do
Run the new outlet (wiring is already in place)
Insulate
Hang drywall
Remove remaining wallpaper border
Mud seams
Prime
Paint
Trim out and finish the window
Floor underlayment
Linoleum (purchased yesterday)
Door trim
Baseboards
New over-the-commode cabinet
Probably a new medicine chest and light
New (custom) cabinet on the west wall
Tile countertop
New siding, exterior wall
All this from a leaking toilet. No, I don't know how it happens, either.
Casualties
LH: blooded scrapes, index and little finger; scratches, dorsal above the thumb
RH: blooded scrape, little finger; cut, last knuckle/digit, ring finger; misc. hurts, middle and index.
RKnee: friction burn from dropped sheet of drywall
* Γ, the third letter of the Greek alphabet
A new cabinet on the opposite wall, too, that'd be nice, something we can put candles on...
Y'know, an outlet would be nice just above the countertop - oh yeah, need to build a new countertop for the new cabinet - so we can plug in a nightlight or something decorative.
Once the cabinet is in, we'll need to take out all the shelving, so you'll need to build some storage on the side porch for it all...
So it goes.
The old window was wood, never properly finished, and right at the junction of two sections of roof where it could be sure to catch run-off from both in the case of rain, which happens from time to time in Missouri. Naturally, the surrounding trim was rotten, held together mostly by the paint. The nails holding the exterior trim were rusted almost completely away.
No surprises in the wall. More boards in the wall that didn't go anywhere. The window itself was held in place only by the trim inside and outside. With the trim gone it just - more or less - fell out. It was framed in on one side by a stud, with a reverse "gamma"* of 2x4s nailed to that. No real support at all. Except the trim.
A little termite damage, but nothing to write home about.
Left To Do
Run the new outlet (wiring is already in place)
Insulate
Hang drywall
Remove remaining wallpaper border
Mud seams
Prime
Paint
Trim out and finish the window
Floor underlayment
Linoleum (purchased yesterday)
Door trim
Baseboards
New over-the-commode cabinet
Probably a new medicine chest and light
New (custom) cabinet on the west wall
Tile countertop
New siding, exterior wall
All this from a leaking toilet. No, I don't know how it happens, either.
Casualties
LH: blooded scrapes, index and little finger; scratches, dorsal above the thumb
RH: blooded scrape, little finger; cut, last knuckle/digit, ring finger; misc. hurts, middle and index.
RKnee: friction burn from dropped sheet of drywall
* Γ, the third letter of the Greek alphabet