InsaneJournal

It dawned
on my that many who read my journal are not members of middle_street where we post much of the house stuff.  Well, my weekend was all about the house.  You should go and read this... I'll wait.

Yesterday was spent having a bit of a break down and then pretending the house didn't exist.  Clue did sewing and I worked on New Zealand photos.

This morning I did the cost workup... well mostly, I 've still got one more to add and it looks like around $750 and a LOT of labor but I think I said that in the bit you read up there.  After all that, we started on the basement.  Fortunately, about 18 months ago rikibeth helped us clean the majority of the basement.  This meant that we needed to move some of the shelves we put up then to a new location, which really needed to be done anyway since everything got shuffled during the reconstruction from the flood.  Next we cut up a bunch of wood that needed to be removed due to water damage.  I then removed the last of the framing from the 'bamboo wall' that the previous owners had put up.  Clue spent time cleaning up the piles of dirt that accumulated over many years.  We the called it quits and order pizza.

An interesting note is that some plumbing, intersecting the damaged foundation area has "installed 1996" written on it.  This means that the previous owner's plumber at the very least had to know about the damage.  I can't imagine the owners weren't told, but it is possible.  I will do a little legal research into the whole issue but really, the previous owner is a lawyer and it is very likely I would spend more than I would recoup taking the issue to court.  It's worth the research but not likely anything more.

Now, now I am off to relax since tomorrow is a work day after all.