[JERRY2KONE]

I forgot to mention that there were also a few things going on in the background while I was busy doing my thing. My wife's cussin painted all of the POPCORN ceilings for us, plus he did all of the sheetrock repair work for me after I was tearing into walls left and right trying to get all of the wiring done right and installing all of the new windows and doors. I poured some new cement and widened the front walkway two feet, and then painted it green. We rebuilt both bathrooms and put in all new fixtures. We replaced every doorknob & dead bolt with new hardware.

I also had to jack up the backside of the house 2.5" to compensate for some foundation issues. I had to repair/replace some rotted wood under the house before lifting it up to level that side of the house. I replaced the garage door, and installed a new Sears door opener. There was a back door in the garage seen in one of the first pics that was actually an interior door. I ripped that doorway out and installed a larger new metal clad security door with a new frame and triple locking system. There was also a window on the backside of the garage, which I removed and boarded up the opening. That is now stuco'd over. No one likes to have thieves breaking into the garage and stealing their tools, right? So why make it easy for them? I mounted a utility ceiling fan to keep air moving during the summer months in the garage for the new working area. We left the old side-by-side fridege freezer (two years old) in the garage for secondary cold storage. I know I am missing other work that we did, but trying to remember everything is hard at my age. And finally one of my most important contributions to this project is that I do not use nails for much of anything these days. About the only thing that received nails was the new floor moldings. Everything else was built or put together with heavy duty corrsion protected screws. Nothing in this house comes apart without using a big crow bar or a piece of heavy duty equipment. most of the exterior wall frame work was installed with pressure treated lumber to keep the termites from eating any of it. I never understood why houses are not built with PTL in the first place.

All of the plumming valves were replaced with 1/4 turn ball valves. The only place I did not work on this house was in the attic. There was never an access built into the attic of this house, and because of the daily high temps in this region during the month of June I stayed out of the attic. Even when I installed the new exhaust fans in both of the bathrooms I decided to mount them into the exterior wall just so I did not have to access the attic space. Maybe next year I will open it up just to pump in some added insulation to keep the heat out. I was actually not that bad in the house temp wise.