Closing day!

Today was closing day and we got a lot done.

First off I have to say Congratulations to Tami Sue! You can view her blog off to the right hand side here. She is finally engaged!Future Mrs. Logenhardt...oh wait, sorry. Future Mrs. Logsdon! :) Love Ya!

Yesterday as I had said, Adam took the day off and rented a fogger from Home Depot for our mold issue.

Doesn't he always look so happy to be in my pics?
He fogged twice on top of our already having sprayed it with vinegar the night before. Guess what. No change. Really. No change.
Now, I've always thought it to be a little fun to spray mold with clorox and watch it disappear before my eyes, but none of the website I read said ANYTHING about clorox. Yesterday before we left Adam suggested on top of everything else we've tried, to just spray the bad black mold with clorox. Guess what now folks. Clean as a whistle. Perfect! I don't know why none of the sites I went to said anything about it. Maybe because it's more dangerous? You do really have to be careful when using it. So this morning we got a big ol sprayer out, loaded it up with clorox and attacked the basement. I have to say the basement is looking up.
Before:

Now:


Last night we also took all the wooden articles out of the basement that had been left behind by the previous owners that were now homes to the mold. This helped the basement be less scary also.


This morning we got up bright and early to close on our new house. We're official owners.

Then we came back and got right to work. Adam started laying the flooring in the middle bedroom.

Here's where we are at the end of the day. Sure doesn't seem like we got much done here but it's hard work and there are always lots of distractions.


I spent pretty much the whole first 1/2 of the day in the kitchen scrubbing appliances and putting lining in the cupboards, etc.

We had a visit from Windstream and we now have internet at our fingertips again! :) You have no idea how happy that makes us. We also have a home phone now....although we don't have a phone to hook up so you can't call us yet.

We had a visit from the duct cleaners.

This was an experience. They hook this huge hose up to this huge vacuum in their van and do all sorts of stuff to get all the gunk out. Ours needed it bad. After they got all the gunk out they also fogged the ducts to kill any mold growing in there. I think we are winning this battle :)

We had a visit from the plumber this morning who said he could put a shower in for us and fix the pipe leak so we had to tear out the wall. We also have to tear out that little weird half wall thing in order to use a shower here.


Demo!

This was my afternoon job and I'm still not done.

We breaked for supper and to run the fogger back to Home Depot and to spend more money and we decided to quit for the day. We're pooped.

G'nite.

Mold

I admit it. We have a serious problem. It's mold.

The power to the house was turned on yesterday and when I could finally see the extent of the mold, it was a little scary and I thought "how in the world am I and my little spray bottle of vinegar going to win this war?" Well, the answer is we're not and I'll explain more later.

All I can say is that it's a very good thing that we got into the house early. If this had been left alone for a whole other week with the house locked up it would have been bad. As it was, it had made its way up into the kitchen and latched onto the cabinets already. When I went to the house on Thursday I noticed something on the fronts of the cabinets but I just thought it was something that had dripped down when someone was doing something at the sink. By the time I went back on Saturday it was on most of the fronts of the bottom cabinets. And you can see how it did it.



When you go down to the basement and look straight ahead at the walls you can see how it crawled up from the basement floors to the basement walls and then around up to these walls and then up and into the kitchen.
Like this.


Here is what these walls look like close up


The basement walls, well, they're a totally different beast.



I attacked them with my spray bottle and vinegar just to try and get a start, we set up 2 dehumidifiers and 4 fans to try and dry it out a little, and I encountered a huge scary spider. Yikes. Anyway, we know my vinegar isn't going to do the trick so Adam took today off and is renting a fogger from Home Depot to attack it in a major way. We are going to fog today and then tomorrow we will tear out the effected drywall and fog again.

Here are a couple pics of the basement for a greater understanding.

There is a bathroom down there that at the moment is very scary.





Also because it's so wet down there, paint is coming off the walls and floor. The right kind of paint was obviously not used and so we have to deal with this scene also.



We also found some mold upstairs in the closet on Sunday.

This is after being sprayed a couple of times

This mold however, didn't come from the basement. It came from a leak in the roof. We didn't know exactly where on the roof though so one of us had to go up on the roof with a hose and one up in the attic to find the leak. I chose roof. No idea why. Anyone ever gotten on a roof and not known how to get down? That would be me. It was pretty steep where the ladder was and it had also gotten wet in the process and I was scared I was going to slip trying to get to the ladder. Heart attack time. Needless to say my hubby came to the rescue and I made it to work today. The leak? Oh yeah, back to the leak.
Here's where the water is coming in. The house was added onto and there is an old chimney type thing that water is getting in around. Here is a shot from in the attic.


Like I said the house was added onto so there are sort of 2 roofs on the house.

Interesting.

And we have a couple other places where there is water getting in. This is under a window.


Around the patio door


From the pipe leak behind the tub.


That leaves only one bedroom without any water damage and its of course the smallest one. This one.

It's ready and waiting. I think since we are doing hardwood flooring throughout, this room at this point is the only one we can lay flooring in. This may be our bedroom for a while. Even with this as our bedroom, the dining room as our living room and a full kitchen and bath, it's more space than we're living in now. We'll be just fine :) The awkwardness of living in a renovation in progress house...it's give and take. The house gives you a bedroom w/o water damage? You sleep in it.

Here's the pics of the newly lined pickup.


Ohhh. Ahhhh.

And I leave you with some more mold.