Long story short, the insulation upstairs was not to code, so we moved everything downstairs into the garage, took the dry wall down, took the insulation out, put new insulation in, and are now in the process of getting a few more outlets put in upstairs, finishing up putting insulation in, and then putting the drywall back up. We have been living with Jeanie in one of her spare bedrooms, which has been neat. We have had a couple breakfasts together, and a dinner. We are still working on getting her to come out with us sometime. I think I may take a yoga class with her in downtown Apex if she goes while I am not at work. We are enjoying getting to know her. She's a school teacher, so she has the summer off.
So here is a glimpse of the past 2 weeks.
Moving stuff downstairs...
Putting plastic down...
I decided to help take the drywall off since Shane was putting insulation up on the other side of the apartment.
This is the insulation that Shane took out. He is saving it to use in the ceiling downstairs.
This was Shane's genius way of getting to the ceiling above the staircase. He propped a 2x8 and 2 2x4's on the stairs and on the latter...I'm glad I was at work when he thought this up.
This is me demonstrating how it worked...as if you really needed to see that. Shane just got camera happy.
Some of Shane's NICE insulation installation work. As I am writing this, he is filling in the 6 or so inches at the top with insulation so that can be complete! I am trying to hurry through this so he has his assistant back...not that I'm much help, but we'll see what he can use me for tonight.
This is all of our stuff stacked up in the garage.
This is kind of funny. The entertainment center became our closet, everything didn't fit though, so it's just laying around wherever there was room. I think I may have to make a trip to the laudrymat when this is all finished to make sure all of our clothes are clean. Eakes.
While Shane was at work on Monday, I made my way upstairs. Shane had asked me to throw all the insulation out the window (the stuff Shane tore out and is re-using downstairs) onto the driveway to get it out of the way for when he had to put the drywall back up. I also picked up all the plastic and swept and vacuumed so that we wouldn't have AS big of a mess to clean up after the drywall was put back up. Shane works so so hard so I wanted to treat him somehow. It actually looked like what we used to live in when I finished, it was exciting.
That's all I have for now. Jeanie and I have had a couple breakdowns, but life could be a lot worse than this. While all of this is going on in the garage, Jeanie's A/C breaks in her house. She doesn't seem to catch a break. The A/C parts that we need were ordered and will be installed on Friday.
Hope everyone is doing well! Congrats to MEGHAN for finishing up her MBA this coming Friday! Woo! And little Will will be 8 months at the end of this week! Lots of exciting things going on.
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