Lots of surprises

Gary and I went up to the house today and walked through looking at the skeleton of a house.  We took a tape measure and begun to lay out our upstairs baths.  We also noticed a few surprises.  Some were kinda cool, and some were not so pleasant.  We had the old knob and tube wiring (we knew we had this wiring).  And yes, it was still being used up to the beginning of demo.  Well, with all this old wiring we had two in-wall heaters.  Gary and I were deathly afraid to use them, so we disabled them when we bought the house.  Well, our fears were verified today.  Where one of the old heaters was, there was quite a bit of fire damage. 



Our wiring


There was also some termite damage.  That was suspected though.  And some of the studs were not really supporting anything like they should have been, so we will have to do a little extra framing than we thought.  Neither of these are really a big deal.  We had the home treated for termites several years back.




The "floating wall".  It's not connected to anything!

 Our home has had several additions put on in it's almost 120 years.  We were always curious of what order the additions were added.  Today we figured it all out by looking at how they were tied in during construction.  Super cool.  It's like solving a mystery.

The last surprise was kinda cool too.  In our bedroom over the roof trusses we found cedar shakes.  After we got home and looked at the original picture we have of the house we noticed that it did indeed have cedar shake roofing.  We had never noticed that before!


The cedar shakes



The roof in our oldest picture of the house.

Since I had the camera out taking pictures I decided to take a few of our rental house that's 2 blocks away.

The outside of the house



The inside.  (With Gary studying CPA material on the couch)