Plumbing

Since we are moving the kitchen, adding a bathroom, and moving the washer/dryer, there was a lot of plumbing to re-do in our house.  And because it's an old house, the plumbing in the current front (guest) bathroom needed to be re-done too.  Essentially the whole house's plumbing was re-done.  So Aaron spent about 3 days under the house doing plumbing stuff.  

This room is no longer going to be a kitchen, so this plumbing had to be moved.

So...Aaron ripped up some more flooring in the house.

This space is all going to be the dining room when we're done.

But first, the rotted subfloor had to be taken up.

This is the new plumbing for the kitchen sink in the soon-to-be kitchen.

Then Aaron had to remove the flooring where the master bath is going to be. 

This will eventually be the master bath.

And this will eventually be in our bathroom, not the bedroom.

Adding more plumbing holes in the bathroom.

Aaron spent a lot of time under the house!

New plumbing for the washer/dryer.

And he added a water spicket in the backyard.

Next up:  Electrical!

Our families are amazing!!

Last weekend, we had lots of family stop by Harvard to help with projects & it was such a blessing!  Inside, we were able to close in a few doorways that are going to become walls, open up a new doorway to our bedroom, and take all the panelling off the master bedroom walls.  

Our living room is currently our supply room.

We took down door frames...

...and closed them up so we can drywall over them.

Aunt Lydia & Aunt Lynne (& Sara) removed the paneling in the master bedroom.

Lynne, Lydia, and Sara were hard at work! 

We took the doors & molding off

Removing more door molding... 

Jamison cut out the new doorway

There's the new door hole  :) 

Old doorway is on the left (closed up) and the new doorway is on the right.

Panelling is gone!

Thanks Duhan clan for all your help!!  And while this was going on inside, the Riddle clan was hard at work outside on the landscaping!  (More to come on that later...)  Our families truly are the best!!

The fun part... demolition!

The flooring in the old kitchen was dis.gus.ting.  In fact, pretty much the kitchen as a whole was dis.gus.ting.  So my sweet hubbs Aaron & his twin brother Matt went to work & tore everything out so we could start over.

They ripped up the old cabinets & countertop.

Aaron & Matt

And the multiple layers of nasty flooring.

The old kitchen and old dining room space were ridiculously useless & small.  So we decided to take the wall out between them & make them one room (the future dining room).  That was the fun part!  :)

Goodbye wall!

Thanks Matt!

Oh, hey there!  

Aaron, Micah, & Matt went to town on that wall

And the wall's down!!

That big mess is going to be our dining room.  Eventually!  I like it 100 times better with no wall in the middle!!  :)