.Summer Cleanup
After the framers left, it took the dust a few weeks to settle. I was continuing the work and after a while, the dirt and dust was unbearable. With Elaine's mother Mary, and Elaine helping me, we swept and vacuumed the whole 2nd floor. It was obvious that the master suite would be a long time coming. In the meantime, the future master suite had a roof and Typar over the windows, but the walls were open to the rafters. We were paying $200 per month for our storage unit on route 22. So it was a no-brainer to take the storage stuff and move it into the master bedroom. But the space had to be prepared. It also had to be totally cleaned. For the floor, I coated it with a one application of primer. While I was at it, I also primed the 2nd floor plywood. All the floors would eventually get cement slabs over them, the 2nd floor by winter, and the master TBD. While at an Antoniotti dinner, Elaine's sister, also Mary, offered to help. Her specialty is painting. With her help we could also finish coating the master floor and apply a coat on the basement workshop floor with epoxy. She did a great job.
Elaine wanted a semi-finished attic with a painted floor. I had the 3/8" plywood delivered with the doors for the 2nd floor. Elaine's brother, Fred, helped me schlep the doors into the future master bath, and the plywood into the attic. I cut and fit the plywood for the new attic floor. To paint the floor, I rented an airless sprayer for the weekend. While I had the sprayer I took the opportunity to paint the basement ceiling beams in the workshop and the old basement (new boiler room). We were at the 24 hour Home Depot twice that weekend. The second time was midnight on a Sunday to get 5 gallons of paint for the workshop walls. I sprayed that night when we got home, and returned the sprayer by 9:00 on Monday morning.
To continue to prepare the boiler room, Bob Tomczyk helped me demolish the old furnace and dump it in the backyard. I poured a concrete pad for the boiler. The floor in that area, where the old furnace was, sloped back into the corner. The pad corrected for the bad floor and will raise the boiler up a little. Behind the boiler along the wall is the PVC plastic sewer pipe for the 1st floor bathroom. To protect it from heat and damage, I boxed it in. To do this, I built a frame out of left over re-bar and wired expanded metal lath over it. This was then plastered over with cement when with the other plastering work in the basement.
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In the image above, the water heater is where the new boiler will go. After the pad and the wall to the right was finished, the water heater was moved over. Then the pad and wall were added to. Eventually the wall box will extend to the left further when the washer and dryer are out of the way.
On this corner in the workshop I found a home for my storage bins. The cement wall you see on the right is one that I demolished with a rented electric rotary chipping hammer. I loaded the rubble into buckets and dumped it in the back. This wall will be replaced with a stud wall to mount the electric and home automation panel, as well as other pump controls.
