Felt Family Remodel: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Deal with 107 Degree Heat

So as the majority of people who read my blog (all seven of you) know, we've been remodeling Matt and Kellie's place because of their upcoming munchkin - due sometime in the middle of August (though Kellie is WAY preggers, and it could be any day now...)

At any rate, we're totally redoing the place while they're staying at Matt's parents' place while they (Matt's parents) are in Hawaii for their annual "Let's Go to Hawaii and Lounge in Luxury in Lahaina" trip that generally lasts about a month... sometimes longer... So we have about three weeks to finish...

Kellie basically with Tiff's help packed up all their stuff and moved it all to one of four locations: Bragg Woods, Joe's garage, my shed and my kitchen... because neither of those places really gets used... except the kitchen... that's where I keep my Flav-R-Ices, bottled water and frozen peas (for icing down after my runs) but that's about it... Oh, and my collection of paper plates and Solo cups left over from the campaign...

After the packing we started last Saturday with massive demo and took out the following from the house:

1. The Rotted Floors

2. The 1970's-era Wood Paneling

3. The Entire Kitchen

4. The Entire Main Bathroom

5. The Entire Baby's Room (including knocking out the closet and bathroom)

6. The Interior Doors

7. Thirteen Gallons of Sweat (donated by all of us working...)

So this is after all the wall panelling was taken out... notice the floating light sconces that we simply hammered around...

This is where the kitchen used to be... this is right before we took up the floorboards... notice the sink plumbing and the rotted wall joists... those are fun to deal with... taking down wall panelling and taking up floors while you have old fiberglass insulation and mold to deal with = awesome!!

This is the master bedroom after the rotted floors got taken up - again, this is EXACTLY what you want your wood to look like underneath the floorboards and walls...

And now we come to the truly interesting part... if there is one... this is a generic picture of Matt and Paul working on the bathroom... notice that Paul is drawing something on the floor here in sharpie...

Perhaps you'd like a better look...

That's right, it's the schematic for what we (read, Paul) need to do to move the toilet a foot and a half to the left...

So we all head to Home Depot to get the parts, and the we all realize how much trouble we're in when Paul stares intently at every single pipe part... Paul, can I get you a snarfblat so you don't just stare the whole time?? Got very boring...

So in order to move the toilet a foot and a half, there had to be some surgery done on the piping... namely, we had to cut the sewer line (read: sh*tpipe) and extend it... easier said than done, or should I say, yes, it's as gross as it sounds... And yes, one of us took the opportunity to pee into the open sewage line... pixelated for your benefit... though as Paul says, I could have used only one pixel and it would have been fine...

At any rate, Ryan took the following amateur video to tell you just how noxious it was... warning... there is some language here...

That was our first day... I know all of you are OH SO interested in this, so I'll keep you updated...

Just pray for us, cause on Saturday is was 107... and that place gets HOT!