October 12, 2011

• My Project Days

  Some of you might remember from a couple of posts recently that I’m involved with a group of friends who get together and work on each others houses once a month. We started this back in July and this month, it is my turn. Now I’ve got no shortage of things that need to be done in or around my house. Quite honestly, my house is the house that 1978 forgot.

  Even though I’ve got a lot of work that needs to be done, I had no doubt about where we would start: my bedroom. See my bedroom used to be a garage. When the garage was converted into two rooms, for some stupid reason the attic was not probably insulated. Because of this, it gets unreasonably fucking freezing in there in the winter. And I mean cold. Like on days when it gets single digits or colder outside, my room gets as cold as 50 degrees or even less. One time, I closed the door in there during a day when it was below zero and came back in about a half hour. It was so cold that I could see my breath. So I had a heat guy come out and properly fix the vent going into that room, but it turned out to only partially solve the problem. It is still ridiculously cold; so cold that I still need to use a space heater. Now I know about the attic issue and we are going to going that route. Another part of the house is really cold too and it looks like the insulation there has worn away. So, I plan to insulate the entire attic. Currently I’ve got a couple of cellulose insulation sitting in my living room. And by a couple I mean 56.

  Speaking of the living room, that is the other part of the project. The plan is to remove the carpet and paneling (yeah, that’s right, I’ve got paneling) and repair and fix the drywall and will have somebody put in new carpeting. Did I also mention I will be doing the same thing in my bedroom as well? Well I am. So all that right there should be a good start to getting the house lookin good.

  There are still a number of other things that should be replaced and or fixed including but not limited to the crawl space. See for the first five years after my mother died we kept her body in the crawl space. Until finally the funeral director and his merry band of men came crashing in through the windows, showed us their badges and told us we could no longer keep her in the crawl space. So they hired a couple of elderly illegal immigrants to take her out.

  Although I hate spending money, I am really looking forward to the changes we are making to the house. Quite honestly, because of how old the house is, it has been a bit of an embarrassment and this will certainly help to make it look much better and be a source of pride. It is most definitely a much needed improvement to the house.

  Just kidding about my mom. We never put her in the crawl space. She is in the backyard on a lawn chair.

  Next to my dead dad.

  • 11:26 pm
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