Demetrius, who was also our real estate agent, was daring enough to walk on stilts. 
Monday and Tuesday, I was sick in bed. I couldn't do anything either day. I really probably should have stayed in bed again today, but as the saying goes, "you can rest when your dead." Today Tessa and I did a few more things to the house. Tessa finished sanding the trim. She cleaned the fridge, it needed it pretty badly. And helped me skim coat a few more spots on the walls. While she was working on those things, I started in on some masonry work.
There had been a window there that any crackhead could bust in and be able to break in to our house.
Here it is all finished. I have to go match the paint, and no one will be the wiser to my not doing a 2" mortar joint like the original was.
I patched in one more opening as well, but it was no where close to as big as this.
Hopefully in a few months, we will be able to close in the other openings to make the crawlspace/basement an unvented crawlspace. But we will need to do a few more things. But the rewards are worth it. Well, I hope that everyone is doing well. Hopefully, I will be doing even better tomorrow. One other huge thing is at Lowe's they had wood floor stain for 8 bucks a gallon, which is usually about double that. Whooo!
Michael
I also scrapped off the extra mortar, so this pic was semi complete. I also cleaned up around there, now if a lot of the neighbors would take the same approach to their yards! :)
ReplyDeleteoh man, hope it's not too late for this, but glad i saw your work Mike. it looks great, but there's one thing that i would strongly suggest that you do. this is from the 8 years that i was with Jones, and was witness to a few pretty serious issues that came up there. houses that are on a crawl and have a masonry foundation absolutely must be vented with "weep holes", usually found in the vertical morter joints. the weep holes serve the purpose of helping to release moisture that can build up in the crawl, along with laying a vapor barrier on the floor. if the crawl is completely sealed off, you will definitely have BIG trouble, as mold will start to grow not only in the crawl, but up into the walls on the 1st floor from moisture build up from the ground. matter of fact, those openings should also have a screened vent that can open in the summer and close for the winter. there was an issue with a customer who saw these weep holes on his house, tuck pointed them thinking they weren't suppose to be there, and ended up causing major damage to the house, mold was growing on the inside walls, and entire rooms needed to be torn out & re-drywalled & treated for black mold! and that was just 1 case. over the years there were many!
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