Week 4

Today completed the 4th week of construction and much of the inside work began today. For a while it looked like progress was slow. Once the walls and roof were complete, it looked like everything stopped. It didn't though and the crew worked diligently installing insulation in the walls, ceiling and on the foundation and installing the electrical.

The first inside work is installing the new can lights in the kitchen. That meant tearing into the ceiling and, well, it seems that we will be without a kitchen from now until the project is done. We could still use it, but it is going to be a mess. Most everything is covered in a thin layer of dust. Just enough so that you know you should clean everything off before you use it. They have also begun putting up the drywall.

In the next few days, we expect they will begin tearing out the wall between the kitchen and the breakfast nook. We have been held up by our new door, which has not been delivered.

The contractors found old newspaper in the walls and ceiling. Not sure why it was there, insulation perhaps. It is very brittle but I was able to find a date on one page - 1933! - which is right around the time the house was built!