[TomH]

Time for a long overdue update. I managed to hurt my back doing the foundation work so I was basically forced to take a few weeks off.

I hit it hard last Friday and did the nine feet of foundation on the adjacent wall to the one I had done previously. Same story as before, support the house, clean the foundation, set some rebar, apply some Weldcrete, set the forms and pour the concrete. Pretty uneventful but still put in about 8 hours.

My plan Saturday was to remove the existing bathroom and I mean remove everything except the roof. The bathroom had been added on to the house and the addition was poorly done. there wasn't really anything I could work with and it made the most sense to just tear everything out and start from scratch. So that is what I did. I supported the roof and removed the floor and three walls.

Then I built a pony wall off the foundation and laid the new floor down on top of that. I got one of the exterior walls framed before I ran out of 2x6's and energy. I was about 10 hours into it and would have done the other wall but without the lumber, I decided to cover it up until this weekend. With the amount of work I was trying to get done, I had to hire my brother to help. It would have been difficult to do by myself.

With any luck I'll get the exterior back together and sided. Then I can get back to where I thought I was about six weeks ago - plumbing.

I only have one pic that is (halfway) worth posting. My wife to a bunch but obviously she sucks at picture taking. Then her camera broke (As a side note, I took her camera apart last night and was able to fix it). I'll get some shots Saturday morning before I start and get them posted up later.

Tom