New electric. Everything in this house is old!!

The kitchen came out last weekend. This house has no insulation in the walls. It is cinderblocks with brick on the outside. I was talking with my neighbor at church last Sunday and mentioned that was the case. She said her house is the same. I said, "It makes it kind of.." She said,"breezy." I chuckled. Breezy is a good way to describe it. Next project is to frame in where the kitchen used to be and insulate. I will run new electric into that wall for disposal, etc.







New can lights in the entry this week.

My brother John came up and helped Chad and I put in this glulam beam. As you can see it is 16" tall and 3 1/8" wide and 18 feet long. It rests on the cinder block frame on the west side of the house and 3 2x4's on the east end. It allows this room to be wide open. The ceiling will be flat. We restitched the roof to the ceiling rafters, cut out the old support and then restitched the ceiling rafters to the new glulam beam. Quite a project!. Many thanks to John!




Stiched ceiling rafters to glulam.

5 supports from the roof to the rafters rather than the 4 before but the 4 are also stiched into the glulam. 9 total supports on each side for the roof now. Chad's great idea.


Used to look like this with the bearing wall support extending below the ceiling about 1 1/2"
Now there will be nothing but ceiling. Nice!