Minor Setbacks

Sorry for the long delay in postings but the busy holiday season got the best of me.  Over the holiday break on the time off from work we were able to make good progress on the farm house.  However, during the progress we found a couple major issues as we got deeper into the work.  Firstly, the roof was leaking in one spot and before we realized it and were able to fix it the drywall in one of the main rooms was completely soaked due to the onslought of rain that has been hitting us lately.  Add to that the lack of ventilation and mold began to grow on the drywall.  So we quickly removed the drywall from that section of the house and were able to pull down the affected ceiling tiles.  No real harm since the ceiling and drywall were planned to come down anyway, it just escalated the priority a little.   The roof has since been patched and we can move forward now. 

The second issue was that the roof on the garage is truly end-of-life and is not repairable like origionally thought.  So we are in the process of getting estimates be will likely do a full replace rather than a repair. 

Thanks for reading.  Will keep you posted and more pictures will be coming soon.

Walls continue to come down

The master bedroom walls continue to come down.  We now have two of the four walls completely clear of drywall.  The pace is slow being gated by how much drywall can fit in the 96 gallon trash container each week.  Tuesday is trash day so we typically go out Monday evenings and fill her up.  Now the day dreaming begins; should we leave the closet where it is or tear it down and move it;  should we keep the existing door where it is or wall it off?   Time will tell but the fun continues.

Kevin actually does work

Just in case there are any naysayers out there that think Jenny is doing all the work, I submit this post.

Well atleast I cant take credit for that one peice of molding  :  )

Demolition begins in Master Bedroom

The process has begun this evening to remove the dry wall from the master bedroom.  It took all of 30 minutes to completely fill the 96 gallon trash container in preparation for tomorrows trash pickup.  Plenty more to come but happy to see the first wall coming down. 

Its truly amazing how much satisfaction you can get from punching, kicking, and wielding a hammer with you wife.  Too much fun seriously.  Good thing the kids were around or things may have gotten out of hand.  : )

3D Rending of the "TO-BE" farm house

This is a 3-d Rendering image of how we would like the Farm House and attached garage to look. Most of the effort to date has been on the outside of the house. Focus next week and up-coming updates will focus on the interior.

As always Jenny and I welcome comments and feedback.

House 1 Week after purchase

This the house after 1 week following the purchase. The grass has been mowed and house edged with the weed wacker to the best of my abilty since most of the grass was 2 feet high and was as high 5 feet in some areas. It was a very strange feeling to be driving a riding lawn mower with 5 foot of grass surrounding you in every direction. Talk about feeling small. What an amazing improvement cutting the grass can make.

The ugly railings have been torn down from the front stoop and the absolutley necessary American flag has been hung and flying proud in the open breeze.

More to come

Hahn Farm House Blog Created

I have created this Blog for tracking the progression on the new farm house we just purchased in southern Chesapeake. It is an older home built in 1930 that was solidly bulit is certainly outdated. We will be renovatting and improving the property and will track progress here as we go. Enjoy and thanks for taking the ride with us.