More Beams

Everyone has been praying for rain and moisture in the mountains. Heavenly Father heard our prayers. It rained off and on for about 2 weeks which really slowed the progress on the house down. But we know we need the rain too!

On Saturday January 27th we worked hard.....again. The hope was to lift the roof. 

Once again holes were made in all the walls that the beams would be slide through. This was the outside wall in our front room/office.

The next wall separates the kitchen from the bathroom.  Kory put a piece of plywood on top of our stove so if one of the bricks fell it wouldn't shatter my cook top. 

The other side of the above wall.

I put a dirty hot pink shirt in the sink so that our drain wouldn't get full of debry. I was also hoping it would soften the blow of a falling brick. Someone kept pulling the shirt out. I put that dang thing in probably 3 times in the 30 min prep time we had. In the end the shirt wasn't there when it was needed. A brick fell and broke my sink. A few days of having a plugged drain Kory finally cleaned out the pea trap and we have a somewhat working sink again. If the water level reaches the crack we're in trouble. the water runs through the crack, under the cabinet and onto my clean towels. 

They joys of remodeling!

The last wall is an exterior wall. 

Kory built a brace to help support the beam as we pushed it through.

Finally the beams were in. Next Kory wanted to go back up into the attic and make sure the electrical wires had plenty of room to stretch. When we lifted the first side we ended up pulling some wires out and so have been without working plugs in Maddie's and our room. Our closet light also no longer worked. 

After several hours, way longer than anyone thought it would take, the wiring had been extended. And the live, open wires just sitting on the attic floor surrounded by insulation that sparked when someone stepped over them was removed! I seriously don't know how this house hasn't caught on fire. Those helping us could not believe what they saw up there. Pretty sketchy!!

While working on the wiring in the attic they were also removing the J-bolts so the roof could lift. It was then that it was discovered that the "old roof" and the "older roof" were meshed together and would need to be cut to allow the roofs to separate. Kory and the other men were a little worried about the ceiling on the side of the house that we weren't lifting. They didn't know how well the ceiling would stay with out the support from the "older roofs". So they decided to add another beam to hold up the ceiling.  

More cutting through walls, more beams. 

By the end of the night it was too late to try lifting it and I had two sets of beams running through my house. But we are ready to lift the roof next week.