House Progress

Basement Rec Room (before)

There is so much going on with the house and yet NOTHING is completely finished yet.  They have 4-6 guys here 6 days a week for 8 hours a day so it isn't as if they are not working.  There was just SO much to do.  Much much more than we had thought when we first bought it. 

Basement Rec Room (after)

The basement has been long waterproofed which was the only thing we were going to have done originally.  And as expensive and extensive as that was our basement smells so much better and is much more healthy but it isn't something you can see!  It gets discouraging as there still seems so much more to do.

They had to jack-hammer
the basement to put in new
sewer line. 

We have one, very small bathroom on the main level that has been dug into more times than I can count to connect the rest of the plumbing in the house through the main sewer and water lines.  The guys are quite considerate, I must say, they warn us when the water is going to go out or when our bathroom will be out of commission for the day.  But no matter how extensive their work is that they they always leave us a functioning, albeit filthy and ugly, bathroom.
I've learned that the hospital is a great place to use the toilet at all hours of the day.  No one asks you why you are there.  You can just walk straight to one of the several, clean, bright bathrooms.  The main sewer pipe goes straight through from the basement to the teeny tiny bathroom on the main level to the soon to be new two bathrooms on the bedroom level to the new rental space in the attic.  It is mostly covered but I have to try to go to the bathroom every day with the sound of Russian workers right above and below me working.  Awkward to say the least!!

Kid's bathroom
on bedroom level

They say that the basement should be COMPLETELY finished by the 20th of

Large, master bathroom
on bedroom level

December.  Which is perfect timing because our good friends the Kitcheners are arriving that day for a 4 night stay.  Hopefully, FINGERS CROSSED, it will actually be done.  It isn't looking so good right now!!

Our nice and cozy guest room😭😭😭

Old laundry room. 

We moved the laundry room to another room in the basement. 

This is where the old laundry room once was

It is hard to tell with all the construction stuff, but the floor is completely tiled and the walls painted.

Our one tiny bathroom with holes and exposed pipes everywhere...not to mention the fine coating of dust that magically reappears every damn day!!  

I will take a video soon and post that. It is hard to tell with just photos.