Cleanup Begins

Cleanup began the very next day after the fire, but not before we opened our Christmas presents in the front yard! It was, after all, Christmas Day now. 

Once our makeshift celebration was complete, it was time to get down to the nitty gritty. 

In the following days we began work to sort through the rubble of our belongings ... salvaging what we could, discarding whatever was ruined by fire or water. 

We also began tearing out the water soaked Sheetrock and insulation from various rooms. We quickly filled up the largest dumpster that we could rent, and we will likely need to rent another one at some point, as our trash piles grow ever larger. While the debris removal takes places, it becomes increasingly obvious just how much work will remain ahead of us for a very long time. It is daunting, certainly, but we are not ready to give up on our home. 

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Bathroom Remodel, Phase 3

All the major bones have been put into place, and we are now thick in the Sheetrock phase. 

Bathroom Remodel, Phase 2

Remodeling is going well. Just a little more plumbing, electrical, and sheetrock and we'll be on our way to being almost done. We set the new vanity and marble counter top, and installed the new faucets. A beautiful, brand new bath tub replaces the ugly old one now and a 50 gallon water heater has been put into place. 

Bathroom Remodel, Phase 1

We began work on our master bathroom and closet area this week. As always, it's proving to be a much bigger project than we initially thought. In this post, I don't have actual before pictures, as we started work before we thought of taking any pictures. The old closet has been removed, the new closet walls have been built and lights in the new closet are installed.