busy busy busy

For the last two weeks we have had a wonderful dumpster on our drive way to fill up. At first I thought we were going to need another one. But by the end of our two weeks we had filled it up perfectly to the rim. But we will be utilizing neighborhood dumpster day June 15th for sure. Also, when we redo the kitchen I'm sure we will need to invest in another dumpster!

We used, Budget Dumpster. 

They're an online service that helps you find a dumpster for anywhere in the United State! It was easy and cheap to get rid of a lot of junk! If you need a dumpster they have all sort of sizes for you to pick from. We're going to use them again!

So over the last week or so we have been.....

Knocking out walls like we have a two week time limit on a huge dumpster!

Giving the guest bathroom a facelift. All we need is to put a new floor in and we're set. But we're in no real big hurry to replace the floor. Personally I would do it this weekend! Just to say that we have one whole room totally 100% done. But, we have so much other crap to do that I'm quite alright with the crappy linoleum floor that is probably rotten. We'll get to it. We gotta get hustling on the first floor for this wedding!

Rick has become quite the plumber! 

I'm proud to say I helped get him to being as awesome as he's become. He'd been really concerned that he couldn't solder pipes and didn't know how to or wasn't good at it. We have a bunch of extra copper from removing an extra water heater so I told him PRACTICE!

 Practice he did and good he got!

Also...

We rented out our carriage house to our friend Robbie, Hi Robbie! But we were bad landlords in the matter that we had no idea what the carriage house had in store for us. We figured it was ready to live in. WRONG. As soon as we found the turn on valve for the water we struck a major nightmare! All the pipes had frozen and bursted and had really shotty repair and construction. Plus the old pipes were cast iron and copper and the cast iron parts were all clogged with God only knows what. Oh, and somehow the toilet was cracked in half?  So, lots of new pipes, a new toilet a whole new shower later, Robbie now has a livable apartment and Rick learned how to be a kick ass plumber in under a week! 

I'm really proud of you Rick! 

Also, while the last two weeks have been major demolition we took out our small shower in the original master bedroom bathroom, since we have a huge handicap accessible one less than ten feet away. We found this beaut behind one of the walls!

talk about a weird little closet!

It's lifted off the floor and it's shorter than the ceiling. But there's nice chair rail/molding around inside of it. I can't figure out why the heck they did it like that. We're not really sure what to do with it. I think it will be gone shortly. This little nook will someday be home to a tub for the bathroom. 

Oh and this weekend! We're dragging out all of the old doors, windows and door knobs we don't need and don't want and selling them at the hyde park garage sale this weekend! Stop by our yard and buy a door or a fancy door knob! Help us pay for our remodel/ wedding!