Guardian of the Non Sequitur » renovation http://blog.shirl.com bare pate roue Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:42:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hard Work Under the House http://blog.shirl.com/2008/12/05/631/ http://blog.shirl.com/2008/12/05/631/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:00:42 +0000 bshirley http://blog.shirl.com/?p=631 YY. B. Calldwell\'s, Monticello, Illinois (R) 5After two hours of crawling under my house and prying out rotten wood, disposing of various debris, and happening across a 100+ year old bottle, in preparation to make the second bathroom serviceable for the christmas party, … I have slimmed down my expectations of how I’m going to get it working.

It was a bit wet under the house, and grubbing around under there got me quite dirty.  But there’s enough to do around the house to fill the remaining 10 days if I gave up on the bathroom.  But I’m not going to give up yet.  It will be minimal and arty.

Afterward I immediately had to strip down and take a shower, being covered in dirt head to toe.  Upon reaching down to pick up my clothes afterword I got a whiff of urine.  I suspect not from the bathroom previously above, but from the semi-feral felines and possums that enjoy romping around under the house.  They went straight into the washing machine.

There’s a lot of cleanup I’d like to do under the house.  Remove old unused pipe.  Remove fallen useless insulation.  Perhaps even prevent heavy rain from draining under the house to pool.

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