Despite Adam and I spending all day working on the house today, with help from Adam’s friend Tristan, I felt like we didn’t accomplish much.
Adam and Tristan cleaned the basement some more and took screws out of the ceiling. They also cleaned out the sump well and ripped down some framing. “The basement’s completely done now,” says Adam.
Meanwhile, I was upstairs scrubbing the cabinets in the kitchen and bleaching the walls in the kitchen. I also spent a lot of time pulling staples out of the floor. Then I scrubbed the wood trim, and the rafters, which had gotten some ceiling “stuff” on them from our ceiling-fixy guy.
Not the most productive day, but it all had to be done.
This was the kitchen yesterday. There is crap everywhere, obviously. There are no other surfaces to put stuff on.
And this is the kitchen after an extreme scrubbing today:
Not sure if you can tell the difference in the photos, but I thought it looked a lot better.
Here is the freshly-scrubbed, freshly-ceilinged, freshly-patched living room:
For reference, here is what it looked like when we first bought it:
As you can see (or maybe you can’t, it’s hard to tell in photos), it is looking better. All we need is a bit of paint and some laminate flooring and the living room will be set.
Hopefully the painting will commence this week and we will be one step closer to move-in!
What are you using to clean the walls?
ReplyDeleteWhether we can see the difference or not, you know it looks much better. It is kind of like when you clean out a closet. You know it looks great, but no one else does. It will be amazing really soon!
we are using a half and half bleach mixture to get rid of the mold first off, then we used "tsp" for a final scrub. one thing that has been a huge change from all the work we have accomplished that pictures can not express is the smell of the place! when you enter the house you are no longer punched in the face with cat urine and mold smell....
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