Dusterday

Ripping out walls (or sections of walls) installing plumbing, electrical, and then installing new walls Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. means bins and bins of dirt and each day. The crews do an amazing job of trying to minimize how much of this gets beyond the direct work areas and they spend about the last 45 minutes or so each day cleaning up and sealing off the rooms and supplies, but the result each week, inevitably, is a coating of dust from the second floor to the basement. This means that each weekend, Dan and I are on full-house cleanup duty to capture and remove the escapees to avoid not just the grime, but damage to the rest of the house. It’s a two-day job to dust and polish the house and furniture, scour the bathrooms, and complete the usual weekend chores. After five weeks, it has become so routine that Saoirse just lounges on beds when we’re working upstairs or on the living room rug when we are on the first floor.

The great news is that after these five weeks, we have walls, approved electrical work including vastly improved lighting and circuitry, new, fully-functioning plumbing, and new cedar siding primed and ready to put on the addition.

As you can see, the walls will have to be finished. In the kitchen and bathroom interior, the walls still need to be installed, which we suspect will happen this week. Then, of course, will come another mountain of dust from installing drywall and mud etc. That should be a Dusterday to remember!