Hot Water and Heat? What Am I, a Princess?

After a long day the furnace is no longer lethal. Ha, ha, yeah, lethal is an exaggeration.... not. Mike came over and spent several hours fixing it. I, who was upstairs at the time, heard him laughing downstairs saying 'its a wonder we aren't dead.' I found out later that the flu (flew?) was so full of soot that it probably should have coughed back a lethal dose of Co2 on us already. All id well and good now. The heat and the hot water work. Joy.

Mike also shared some pearls of wisdom with us (and I'll take all the ones we can get (especially from the guy who's fixed up 8 houses)). He told us to do the demo all at once. If we only demo one room at a time we could end up undoing the work we already did. For example if we need to run wires in a room we may have to go through other rooms, and if we've finished those rooms then we'd have to knock out walls again. Knocking down dry wall would make a huge mess in the entire house. I really hoped that we could avoid doing the kitchen at first for the sake of finances. However Tony's mom wants to foot the bill for this whole project. I'm not sure how comfortable I am with that. Its going to be a lot of money and we should pay for something. I'm not really used to getting financial help from parent types.

I spent the day cleaning odd things. The fridge is one step closer to clean. The washer and dryer have been wiped down. and I started chipping away the ice in the downstairs freezer. I also took measurements of the rest of the house and am going to do an estimate of the remainder as well as look up prices for the oddities I didn't get to on the bathroom/hall/bedrooms estimate. Tomorrow we will hopefully get to look at cabinet costs. Mike recommended a good place to try. Hopefully by next week I'll have a more complete estimate.