I am very pleased with how the second bathroom floor came out. It was done very nicely, and it's all grouted! Just have to apply the sealer to the grout. I call it the second bathroom, but it's the first one done..there is also the Master Bath..and a 1/2 bath on the first floor..(well there will be) I have a habit of calling it the girls bathroom also, but if my son moves up with us, it's his also.. so...I don't know what else to call it.



NOW it got "cold" at the house. The temps dropped into the 20's (F) needed some heat quickly. Hubby got them all hooked except the parlor, wanting to wait a bit for them, till he could do some clean up..so he capped the steam pipes, (not the return pipes) and found out, he had to do both sets. Wound up with water pouring back up the pipes.. (sigh) had to rip up the carpet that was protecting the floor from construction, to aide in the drying process...hopefully there won't be too much damage from it.


This last photo, is just showing the shower connection for the bathtub. It's getting so close..I can't wait for the sheetrock! (It's on order, I hope)


Next weekend, Hubby will finish off the water hookup in the cellar, and he has to add a pipe for the water supply in the sink...he plans on installing the sink and toilet..even before the walls are up, so they can be used while the downstairs bath is being removed, and relocated. Hopefully my son is going to pitch in next weekend, I am ordering a dumpster..(hopefully the last) we collected a great amount of junk in the garage..no sense having a dumpster, if we had more to do yet.

Till next time!

More Renovations

The floor was leveled using some self leveling stuffs... ;) just the one corner was real low..so this allows the tub to be level.



Here is the tub in place, and the floor almost finished! A few more tiles to insert...and then grout. Water pipes were run..just not hooked up yet..but soon...maybe next week?

Dresdner Stolen Recipe

I just wanted to add my Stolen recipe, someone had asked for it, and this was the easiest place to put it. The season is coming upon us :)





Dresdner Stolen

Preheat oven to 325 deg.

1- 1/2 cups lukewarm milk 1 tsp grated lemon peel
2 active dry yeast cakes 1 cup golden raisins
¼ lb butter 1 cup citron
¾ cup sugar 1 cup candied cherries
5 cups flour + ½ tsp salt
3 eggs confectioner sugar
½ tsp nutmeg

(Set on your dough) Place half the flour in a large bowl, shape it around the sides of the bowl, leaving a huge ditch in the center. Pour carefully the lukewarm milk into the center of the flour. Drizzle yeast over the milk, and sprinkle a Tablespoon of sugar over the yeast, to allow it to settle. Let sit till yeast is bubbly (active) Stir the flour and milk/yeast and let it set till it rises double in size.


Punch down the dough, and begin to mix in the remainder of the ingredients, except the fruit. When dough is too hard to mix with a spoon, use your hands continually adding flour till the dough is soft and doughy, and your hands don’t readily stick to it. (I found it can take a lot more flour) Kneading the dough is important, knead thoroughly, then add the fruit, and knead till the fruit is well mixed. Split into four loaves, roll them into a football shape, and fold over one side to the other, not even so the bottom portion is slightly wider.

Place on a cookie sheet, and let rise again, till double in size. Bake ¾ of an hour (or till slightly brown) and toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Let cool, then brush with melted butter, and sprinkle with confectioner’s sugar.

Getting there...

Ok, well here is the bathtub in it's place. It isn't set in yet..just placed there..but nice to see things moving along!



Here is a view from the attic. All the puffy insulation, and in the distance you can see the vent pipes in for the plumbing.




Now, only because there are no other photos of work done yet..other than plumbing, here are a few views of the work done in the basement..you can see the new into the old. Still waiting to get the old replaced to the street...but, until then..it's usable.

Moving along

Well, things are moving along, even if I am not 100% happy about it. I will admit, if I were a real laundry buff, my new room would be lovely...but I don't care for laundry, and doing it is a real chore..so I am not. BUT I decided instead of being persnickety about it, I would let it be, and move on. I don't want to waste time going back....move ahead..let's get things done!

Hubby is very proud of himself for the laundry room, and it bothered him a bunch, that I didn't show the same emotion toward it. I didn't want it upstairs in the first place, but I was told it would make life simpler for him to put it there, so I gave in...ok..enough, I think I am holding on to something I should let go..it's done... ;)





Here is the view from the laundry..toward the back stairs. That's what's left of the fourth bedroom. OK it makes a nice sitting room...not that I would use it, but I'll try ;)

Some photos of the...Insulation!

Yep, hubby is back..had a full weekend. He planned on doing plumbing, but two shipments of insulation arrived...and one more coming Tuesday...he had to do some quick stapling!

He said when he first walked into the house, there was no room to move, so he thought it better to insulate, than work on plumbing, it'll help keep things warmer anyway, as the weather cools!

Argh, no plumbing yet

Well, Hubby intended on getting to the plumbing the long weekend, but other things came up. Frist unexpectantly, the contractor suggested we have the laundry room upstairs...so I reluctantly agreed...I would have totally preferred it down near the kitchen...but...I was told it would be minimal. We discussed what I wanted to see for it, as long as it had to be upstairs...and I wanted just a small room, large enough to squeeze the machines in side by side.




Unfortuanatley, I now have a 8' x 9' room, it shortens my fourth bedroom. Now the fourth bedroom looks like a large landing at the top of the stairs. It isn't making me happy, and hubby seems to want to know nothing about changing it. I need a couple of measurements first before I really insist...but I believe it should fit as planned with out being so obtrusive.

Now, after starting to do this room, hubby decided to remove the left over radiators, that won't beused, we will have electric heat in all the rooms on the top floor...to back up, or you can say, suppliment the oil heat.

They loaded the radiator on a hand truck, and proceeded to lower it down the stairs, when one foot of it got caught on the stair treads, and tumbled down the steps onto Hubby's leg. It pushed him a bit down the stairs, as it tore up the treads a bit...




He is doing better, and the swelling is finally starting to go down...he'll be back up this weekend, I hope!