Fixer-Upper

The interior of the house is in great disrepair.  The living room ceiling is collapsing due to the leaky roof.  The carpets are sopping wet.  The walls are mouldy.  The flooring is held down with duct tape.

But worst of all:  the wallpaper.  I hate wallpaper.

Our first order of business:  remove everything wet and mouldy!  The day we got the keys, every square foot of carpet was removed from the house.

We tore down the living room ceiling, removed the wet and mouldy insulation, and hoped the rafters would dry out.  Unfortunately when we revealed the structure we noted that when this addition was built on to the original (much smaller) house, they did nothing to replace the supporting wall that was removed.  Not only was the original roof left basically unsupported, but they also added the load of this new section of roof as well.  That explains the bowing of the beam that is doing it's best to carry far too much weight.

Knowing the roof was still leaking, we set up a catchment tarp that fed the water into a garbage can, and hoped that would allow the floor to dry.

Not bad for a day's work.  Now back to the city while the place (hopefully) dries out.