Jericho

"How I spent my Mother's Day weekend"




Now that the floor joists and foundation of Debbie's 125 year old house have been repaired, and the sub-floor has been replaced, the next phase of our on-going home project will be to repair
the walls where the 100 year old plaster cracked from the 3 inch lift adjustment to the middle of the house. Samuel's room took the most damage, so it was decided to pull down all the old plaster down to the original lathe-work, and freshly dry-wall the entire room.

So on Sunday, Sam, Kate, David, and I took turns whacking away at the plaster walls with hammers and prybars, and we got one and a half walls stripped of plaster. I'll have to spend a day over there this week and finish the rest of the walls. Five and a half year old Abigail was a big help picking pieces of plaster, so we'll have to contract her cleaning services, as long as she wears her mask. Wouldn't want OSHA shutting down the project.

The small white door in the pictures is the closet door. To the left of that is the bedroom entrance. We have decided that the wall in between those two doors could be cut open, to
create more of a walk-in closet, so after all the plaster is down, we will begin cutting out the space for the new closet opening, and framing that in, to fit perhaps a bi-fold closet door.

Sam graduates from Lapel High School in Spring of 2010, so we hope to be done by then.....