Action!

After months of waiting, everything is all happening at once! We found out on Thursday that we got approval from the county to go ahead with our addition. YAY! The contractor was at the house on Friday and put up the scaffolding.

And the carpenters are coming on Monday!!! Wohoo! Which means we've got to get the siding and windows out this weekend. The excavator is going to come Monday or Tuesday and the windows are supposed to be here on Tuesday. It's all so exciting! We're hoping by the time the carpenters are done with the old part of the house, that we'll be done with the basement foundation for the extension. So that the contractor can go right to work on the addition without having to take a break in the work. So the clock is ticking! 

So today, Saturday, Sindre, Roy, and Markus are doing the last ripping down job. OH MY!! Let's just say that my house is very airy right now. And now that the siding is almost gone on the front wall, we can see how completely rotten it is. 

The foundation sill and the top sill separating the first and second floors are completely rotten. And the studs are so rotten, they're only standing out of habit. 

They guys ended up putting up a temporary support wall/studs just along the inside of the wall. The guys have had to do a lot of bracing and supporting. 

And now I'm praying for no hurricane force winds (not all that uncommon!!), or driving rains and that the house won't give up the ghost and fall apart before the carpenters come on Monday.

Here you can see where we removed the first few floorboards in the living room. We wanted to see if the floor joists were rotten. Now it's open to the free outdoors. 

And remember this picture? This is standing in the kitchen looking into the living room. 

And then it looked like this?

Well now it looks like this:

After all the waiting and waiting, there's finally some ACTION! :)