Come on July

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Come on July

February 20, 2007, 09:25:42 AM

As I said in the wood furnace thread, Ange and I have recently bought a house. It's a three bedroom raised bungalow with a half-finished basp00get, and a 16x16 addition at the rear. Barn board style laminate flooring, and fully trimmed. Some of my favorite things about the place is the massive lawn (quite typical for Nova Scotia to have a lawn that takes a week to mow), the large two tiered deck, and the bathroom combo of a two person shower and deep soaker claw-foot tub (I'm a soaker............... but not a cork soaker). The walk in closet in the main floor bedroom is large enough to make into a nursery, and there are two rooms already framed in in the basp00get, but not gyp-rocked. The other two bedrooms are in the finished basp00get area.

Here's the downside. It needs five grand in structural framing for the roof and where they extended the bathroom area (cut the outer beam and butted up joist extensions, but didn't add support at the junction). And the oldest daughter is graduating highschool in June, so we can't move in until July. The family is moving to Alberta (big shock).

Anyway, pics.

Basp00get area.

Come on July

Reply #1 – February 20, 2007, 09:45:20 AM

Nice. I can already picture a garage in the back yard :D I see it's got nice trim, too, not the cheapest-stuff-money-can-buy shiznit that most houses seem to have. I like the big bathroom, too - my house doesn't even have a shower because it's a 1.5 story - the bathroom ceiling slopes too steeply. The house is so old the bathroom was added as an afterthought. No choice but to be a soaker, but I made it a bit better by installing a whirlpool tub.

How old is that house? You mentioned that it needs structural work in the roof, and indeed, I can see it sagging toward the right side. What's wrong up there? Nothing serious, I hope

Come on July

Reply #2 – February 20, 2007, 10:05:31 AM

So does that mean you are planning on moving in July? I don't want it to be july yet. Here all it means is thousand's of tourist coming to town. Besides its 60* yesterday and today here in the Ozarks. So I'm fine with it being Febuary.I guess that if my youngest was getting out of school I'd want it to hurry along and get here too.

Come on July

Reply #3 – February 20, 2007, 11:09:43 AM

Moving in, in july. My youngest is my only, and she's only 21 months.

Come on July, because we're renting a shiznithole.

Carmen, the roof is sagging because the wall across the front used to be flat, but they extended the end a bit (toward the road) as well as back. The problem is, the old roof (parallel to road) has lost its bearing wall at the popped out kitchen, and the gable was just placed on top of it. The house is only 30 years old, but the builder who did the renos was a complete hack (my brother used to work for the guy, but thankfully split and started his own company before his old employer started getting bombarded with lawsuits). The foundation was well done, but these two oversights were drastic enough to cause the roof to sag. The floor joist issue hasn't caused an inch of floor sag, but the single telepost in the basp00get under that section has the screw(topping the post) tilted about 8* just from the load. A short beam will fix it, and there is plenty of room to place it.

We plan to turn the addition into our home office (A & A Reeves Design, Architectural Drafting), so it can have its own entrance. We don't want do have clients trudging through our home just to find the office.

And yeah, just left of the opening in the old fence is the space slated for garage duty. :P There's a little over an acre and a quarter, but it borders on a brook, has lots of trees (big hardwoods on the front and side lawn), and an unobstructed view of the lake on the other side of the road. I guess the current owner has over 100 perenials planted in that picket fenced area (to keep the bunnies out). That explains the mound of dirt behind the house, which will be gone by the time we move in).

In light of all this, I really need to get out there and get those tailights from you, Carmen.:o

Come on July

Reply #4 – February 20, 2007, 12:17:28 PM

That's actually what I was thinking happened with the roof. So how are you gonna fix that? A decorative, yet functional, beam, perhaps? I wish I had a finished, or even a finishable basp00get. Mine is an old stone foundation, with poured concrete reinforcing it (so it actually looks like a poured foundation from the inside), but it only has a 6' ceiling. I'm 6'3", so as you can imagine, it wouldn't make much of a room, especially with furnace ducts running everywhere. If I ever come into some money I'd like to have the whole house jacked up and a proper 8' basp00get put under it.

As for the perennials - the old guy that had this house before me was a renowned gardener. He had several gardens all over the property, viewable from satellite as shown below (the shiny thing is the metal roof on the garage - the house is actually next to the big tree, very close to the road). The blue circles are the gardens. The one by the garage is full of flowers - peonies, poppies, tulips, daffodils, roses, etc (and by "etc" I mean "And things I don't even know what they are") - the rest were vegetable gardens. The "Y" shaped markings are actually irrigation cbuttstuffs he's dug out to brind river water to the gardens. There are even concrete bridges over the cbuttstuffs to aid in mowing the lawn.

*EDIT* Just noticed your remark about the tail lights. Yes, I still have 'em, tucked in behind my lawn mower in the garage. Whenever you want 'em...