Jared's Projects
Jared never gets any blog coverage, so today I'll show you what he has been working on: Our bathroom. This bathroom is in the basement. When we moved here 8 years ago it was just a chunk of concrete with a toilet (not much prettier than a prison cell). Today it's still not very pretty, but it's much more funtional and improving rapidly. About a month ago we tore down what was left of the 50 year-old drywall and the original studs. 
Since then Jared has re-studded the bathroom, added framing for a closet in the girls' room, which is adjacent to the bathroom, framed a linen closet for me (yay), and consulted with plumbers. He and Caleb have been working on the shower area for about 10 days. The first time the plumbers came they didn't mention that we would need to even out the floor surrounding the drain where the shower will be. (Fifty years ago people just used the floor drain, which was sloped, for their shower drain.) So we needed to cut a rectangle (roughly 2.5'x3') and then level that area. Jared used his circular saw, fitted with a blade for cutting cement, to cut the concrete. (An extremely loud and dusty job.) Caleb held the shop vac in front of the saw and vaccuumed up a lot of the concrete dust. The next day Jared drilled about 100 holes in the concrete with a hammer drill fitted with a masonary bit. Then came the fun of smashing the floor with a sledgehammer. We could've hired someone, but why?
Now we have a large, square "sandbox" in our basement! (Underneath the concrete was just sand.) I will post a picture of it next.
Now you know what keeps Jared busy when it snows!
Since then Jared has re-studded the bathroom, added framing for a closet in the girls' room, which is adjacent to the bathroom, framed a linen closet for me (yay), and consulted with plumbers. He and Caleb have been working on the shower area for about 10 days. The first time the plumbers came they didn't mention that we would need to even out the floor surrounding the drain where the shower will be. (Fifty years ago people just used the floor drain, which was sloped, for their shower drain.) So we needed to cut a rectangle (roughly 2.5'x3') and then level that area. Jared used his circular saw, fitted with a blade for cutting cement, to cut the concrete. (An extremely loud and dusty job.) Caleb held the shop vac in front of the saw and vaccuumed up a lot of the concrete dust. The next day Jared drilled about 100 holes in the concrete with a hammer drill fitted with a masonary bit. Then came the fun of smashing the floor with a sledgehammer. We could've hired someone, but why?
Now we have a large, square "sandbox" in our basement! (Underneath the concrete was just sand.) I will post a picture of it next.
Now you know what keeps Jared busy when it snows!
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