Day 56--Basement Clean Up

 


And Attic Fix Up

Today involved so very much cleaning. During recent rains, we could tell that the downspouts are doing very little. Today Dave decided to clean up the one over the breezeway and this is what he found. All the gutters need to be replaced, but removing all this moss make the water move through the ones that are there. 

In the basement, there was a storage "room" at the back with some old shelving units in it. We have decided to make it into a proper storage room by moving the wall out about 15 feet. 


Dave moved the wall and then we moved the shelves out and scrubbed the mold off the walls and scrubbed the floor. Then I painted the walls with mold killing primer. The mold appears to be from just lack of air movement around the stuff in there for years, but you can never be too safe. 

Dave's parents came and while I was painting, Jim put together 5 more sets of shelves for me and Mary removed strange plastic runners from the hanging shelves (they were attached with more staples than were necessary) and cleaned and reorganized them. 


While we were working on this new storage room, Dave was working on the rafter mess in the attic. We are removing a portion of the walls at the bottom of the attic stairs and when Dave checked to see if they were load bearing, he discovered that they were not, but also nothing was holding up the load there, so he is adding 2x10s to support the rafters from the top of the new bathroom wall to the top of Lauryn's wall and carry the load down to the beams in the basement. 

Since we were cleaning the storage room in the basement, I used the mold killing primer to paint over the mold on the office walls and then Mary and I scrubbed the floor. It was the most disgusting thing ever. The floor was  covered in black slime--we had to scrub it with a scrub brush, then mop it 3 times to get it clean.












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