Madeline's Castle!: The Destruction Continues

Between jobs, puppies, trips and holidays, we've been to busy to update the blog! However, we have not been to busy to keep ripping things apart at the house. The water damage in the support beam for the floor joists in the back porch was bad enough that Nate ripped down the entire back wall.

Here is the back of the house with the top part of the wall taken down. We were able to keep the roof and side walls in tacked but you can see even from this picture how gross the supporting beam was.

And it's gone! Nate and his dad were able to support the floor and replace the supporting beam. They also were able to level the previously slanted floor and make it super solid.

This is what the back of the house looks like now. Since we had to special order our door and windows (leveling the floor made the back of the house a few inches smaller than a standard door) they won't be here for a month and so the framing is on hold while we try and finish up some other projects. One of those projects was/is the gazebo/trash bin in our back yard.

This is what it looked like a few days ago

After taking a lot of trash out and the half walls down

And down it goes!

Now that the gazebo is gone we can get the rest of the trash out and into the roll off. We are currently on our second roll off. They carted off 30 cubic yards (5 tons) of trash yesterday. This is proving to be much more tiring than expected especially due to the 90+ degree weather we've been having and the 2 bee hives we've discovered in the process.

As of today we are also completely moved out of the house we were house sitting for. This means that we currently have boxes piled up all over the place that don't have a place to go yet. Since it was so hot and humid today, Nate worked in the much cooler basement making storage selves.