We Own a House

Catching this blog up with the world. October of 2009, Vahid and I moved into a house in Roland, IA. It has a lot of work that needs to be done, but was also livable right away.
Vahid had to change some of the electrical work right away. 95% of the house's electrical wiring is the old knob-and-tube wiring. In order to get home insurance, he had to rewire some places within 60 days, or something like that. He went to work rewiring the places the inspector selected. He has since wired a few more, and now almost the entire upstairs is rewired.

While he rewired the upstairs bathroom, I noticed how easily the old 1950's tile on the wall seemed to fall off. It was ugly anyway. I soon found out that the glue behind this tile makes it unbearable in the bathroom. There is no way to get this glue off of the plaster walls. So... remodeling the bathroom got updated slightly. I had to redo one whole wall, instead of waiting 4 or 5 years before I did this. Vahid loved taking pictures of me in the process:


Aubrey vs. lath and plaster - I won! This is the finished product:


Some day, all the walls will match. Until then, we have an odd looking bathroom that fits this odd little family.