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Trip 1 mile
August 1, 2013
If you noticed the trip meter, this is our shortest move yet. We moved out of the Port Orford Loop RV Village and drove to our new (to us) home.
Our July 24th blog chronicled our moving our stored furniture to the garage of our new home, but explained that the sellers still had eight more days before they could move out. During this time we busied ourselves with shopping for (and buying) wood flooring, and new appliances, clearing brush, dead and downed trees from the lot next door. We also had time for a lot of fun too- long walks, bike rides, rowing the boat anchored down at the lake, and taking local trips to Bandon and Coos Bay.
The wait is over and we are actually moving into our summer home, and starting to remodel. When we purchased the home we were aware that there was some work to be done, both stucturally and cosmetically, but at the price we had negotiated we felt it was a very good deal. Don't get me wrong we really like this house, it has a great feeling of a cabin in the woods- we just want to adapt the house to us with out loosing the charming cabin feeling.
Item 1:
The seller asked if they could have the living room carpet, and we were happy to oblige. Jeff wasted no time in removing the carpet and pad.
The base board heaters had to be loosened from the wall and the doors removed, but within an hour
we had the carpet out and started on the pad which
was stapled down to the underlayment.
The most un-pleasant part of the job was removing
all the staples that remained in the particle board
underlayment after the pad was gently pulled loose.
We are excited about the prospect of this room
Item 2: remove the brown mahogany paneling on the living room walls to further lighten up the room.
The paneling comes off fairly easily, however it revealed a lot of glue lines which stayed on the wall board. Oh Well! I like a challenge. Eventually this will be taped and textured and painted white.
Item 3. The house came with home-made fire place that was a cross between an original cone shaped fireplace, common to homes of this age, and the bolted on fire-box and glass doors from a conventional masonry fireplace. All this was cobbled together with bolts and stuffed with fiberglass in the cracks! Needless to say, this had to go.
We lived a half and half existence for a few days. Not entirely out of the motorhome and not entirely in the house. Here we take a well deserved break from moving.
Trip 1 mile
August 1, 2013
If you noticed the trip meter, this is our shortest move yet. We moved out of the Port Orford Loop RV Village and drove to our new (to us) home.
Our July 24th blog chronicled our moving our stored furniture to the garage of our new home, but explained that the sellers still had eight more days before they could move out. During this time we busied ourselves with shopping for (and buying) wood flooring, and new appliances, clearing brush, dead and downed trees from the lot next door. We also had time for a lot of fun too- long walks, bike rides, rowing the boat anchored down at the lake, and taking local trips to Bandon and Coos Bay.
The wait is over and we are actually moving into our summer home, and starting to remodel. When we purchased the home we were aware that there was some work to be done, both stucturally and cosmetically, but at the price we had negotiated we felt it was a very good deal. Don't get me wrong we really like this house, it has a great feeling of a cabin in the woods- we just want to adapt the house to us with out loosing the charming cabin feeling.Item 1:
The seller asked if they could have the living room carpet, and we were happy to oblige. Jeff wasted no time in removing the carpet and pad.
The base board heaters had to be loosened from the wall and the doors removed, but within an hourwe had the carpet out and started on the pad which
was stapled down to the underlayment.
The most un-pleasant part of the job was removing
all the staples that remained in the particle board
underlayment after the pad was gently pulled loose.
We are excited about the prospect of this room
with it's new bamboo flooring. It should be much
lighter and easier to care for, especially when the
weather changes from the warm and bright days we are currently experiencing.
First, though, we have to address a structural issue
uncovered during the home inspection. The floor
joists are not properly braced in the crawl space
The fix is to install two new "pony walls" in the crawl
space to take the 2x8 joists from a 15' span to a more suitable 7-1/2' span and to properly shore up some of the verticle loads where posts supporting roof beams. I'm hoping one of my brothers will be available to help me with this task!
The paneling comes off fairly easily, however it revealed a lot of glue lines which stayed on the wall board. Oh Well! I like a challenge. Eventually this will be taped and textured and painted white.
Item 3. The house came with home-made fire place that was a cross between an original cone shaped fireplace, common to homes of this age, and the bolted on fire-box and glass doors from a conventional masonry fireplace. All this was cobbled together with bolts and stuffed with fiberglass in the cracks! Needless to say, this had to go.
Jeff started with the glass doors which came off with only a little persuasion
The next little bit was a little more difficult
Success! This thing weighs a ton. Good thing I can recycle the metal at the local dump site
Our good friends Mark and Carolyn offered to come over and help us move the heavier items into the house. It's one thing for Joan and me to roll the larger pieces of furniture down the ramp of a U-haul, but to gets beds and dressers upstairs in the house is quite something else. Couple this with a 90 degree turn in the stairs that precludes getting the rigid base section of the bed up that way. It took all four of us to get the base up onto the exterior 2nd story deck and into the master bedroom! (hence no-one to take pictures of this hilairity)
left to right- Joan, Carolyn, Mark, Jeff relaxing in the living room
Later the same evening we enjoyed our first dinner in the new house. Thanks to Mark (the grill master) we had sea bass for the guys and burgers for the gals, hot from the grill. Note the expensive furniture.
The next couple of months will be consumed with remodeling projects. We hope to have the house in a semblance of order before we leave on our trek to Arizona this winter. Next project is to get the garage organized and the shop set up for some wood-working projects, like hanging our new fiberglass entry door. We also have Lloyd Pedro, of Lloyd's Electric, coming in this Thursday to change out the electrical panel in the house, and to add some circuits for us for microwave, dishwasher, and RV pedestal.
Your some-what Stationary Friends
Jeff and Joan
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