Monday, April 09, 2007

archeology



just in from renovation central. gaping holes. i think they proably had to put in a whole new subfloor. but they are excavating in the most ruined part of the house. ruh roh. but they are making it work. here is pic of a gaping hole where the house is crumbling inside itself. i am lining glass blocks along these holes in case any mummies, critters, or otherwise decide to go exploring tonight. that would not be good.

i am not sure about this door. no one asked me. eh. it is gray and bleh and has no window. ugh. it is better than before i guess. at least weather resistant? the door at least closes on the bottom with a vacuum sounding seal. this is weirding me out. i feel like the house is having an operation. scary operation.

28 comments:

Corny said...

you opened up the hallway right? It's gunna be amazing! Home renovations are stressy. Best to not be home as much as possible.

We have discovered we have water bugs who take control of the house at night, they live in the floor. It freeks my shit right out, I worry they will gang up on foghorn and eat him, or chew a hole in the baby or something.

Corny said...

sorry to evoke disgusting image first thing in the morning.

Anonymous said...

sadly, no, weren't not really opening up the hallway. the "old house from 1890" ends and the walls are load bearing so it kinda has to stay as it is unless we go super crazy. I am saving the super crazy for my dream of a full second story with extra bedroom and studio fantasy.

Anonymous said...

i talked to the contractor this morning and I guess the floor they are tiling - the old flooring there was so so so majorly fucked up. they kind of couldn't believe it. holes. nothing holding it together. good times like that. they assure me it is fixed now. YIKES.

Anonymous said...

corny, we had some waterbugs when we moved in and other bugs. not tons but some and we went chemical = exterminator. for about 2 years 4 x a year. now we never have bugs and quit the service. but i don't know - the chemicals might not be so great for the little one.

Ugh. i can't believe the huge scary gaping holes that are present under floors. i have this sinking suspicion that termites at my house.

Anonymous said...

I hope they aren't termites FB. Corns, please keep the waterbugs away from George and Foggy. Why isn't Cy catching them?
I have seen a waterbug here and there, but nothing like my Williamsburg place, where once 12 huge waterbugs came up from a hole in the floor and even my roommate's dog ran for cover.

Anonymous said...

at my old place in da burg we had flying waterbugs in the summer. horrible racket. insane. we also had a rat appear one day right outside our loft door. good stuff.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, these were flying too--mutant flying waterbugs.
The rat is too much FB. I am so afraid of them. My old studio had a rat. I had left some ink and drawings on the floor overnight and the next day there were little india-ink rat prints across my paper....and huge turds by the door!

fairy butler said...

ok, now i am completely fixated on termites. i want to live in a concrete house.

fairy butler said...

i think it is time to pay for another treatment. just in case...

Anonymous said...

Bugs and critters aside FB, this is a very exciting development to have people in your home excavating. I am hoping they stumble upon the lost tomb of tutankhamen's younger brother, tank, who moved to Bushwick as a wee lad. His hieroglyphics were the earliest form of subway graffiti. In his tomb, you might find a large gold dollars sign studded with diamoniques or maybe a grill.

fairy butler said...

yeah, i was hoping they would find something good like that krix. a diamonique. or fabeebles' lost father. honestly it is strangely intense to have the home worked on. no rational reason exactly. arthur is still away and it's totally on fair. he will come home and it will be all done. no traumas for him. i am hardly sleeping.

fairy butler said...

this is all my project somehow...but it's good. it really really had to be done. the doors to the outside were falling off the hinges. the floor was quite literally caving in in the hallway... so yeah.

Anonymous said...

it definitely sounds like the floor work happened in the nick o time.

I documented some of the findings in the lost tomb.

Corny said...

Our contractor found Nazi paraphanalia in our walls when we were renovating, for reals. I also found plants growing under the basement floor that looked like giant two feet tall alfala sprouts but all white like a ghost plant, really.

Corny said...

Our contractor found Nazi paraphanalia in our walls when we were renovating, for reals. I also found plants growing under the basement floor that looked like giant two feet tall alfala sprouts but all white like a ghost plant, really.

Anonymous said...

corny! we found a fake nazi knife in our place when we moved in also. what's up with that? arthur and i started using it for tasks. then i think it broke. when we closed on our house there was a pot of spaghetti on the stove in the basement. human turds in the basement. it was totally messed up. i probablly already told you this.

Corny said...

I didnt know about the human turds, thats gross. When we move in here there was a wood paneled room with 3 locks on the outside of the door, a broken excersise machine and a hotplate on the floor.

Corny said...

Is it a thing to leave your Nazi knifes behind when you move?

Anonymous said...

I always take my Nazi knives with me.

Anonymous said...

Oh my god that rooms sounds excellent. we only found some lame porn in a closet although i think there was a container of gun cleaning tools and old bullets plus a can of spam which we still have.

it is a thing to leave the spam behind.

Anonymous said...

i should clarify - they were baby turds. human, but baby.

the renovation games seem to be going smoothly. it's funny because mr dog rapes next door, you know abomination pit guy, he is continuing his weird illegal cinderblock addition on his house after a the lull of last summer & the pool.

Corny said...

Hi Fb
I cleaned the gutters on The Mounds today. I've never cleaned a gutter before. it's much easier then it sounds.

How do you know they are baby turds and not just really small adult turds?

Anonymous said...

um... what are waterbugs?

Mountain Man said...

They are probably my turds. Yeah Corny it's funny about the gutters, it sounds all hard but it is no big deal. I hope you do not have termites. Am I making sense? I am not sure. FB we are going to Miami this weekend for UF's show. I meant to tell you. We no be around. Maybe I see you next week, we try again??? I MISS YOUR SPRAWLING LIMBS and wildness of wit.

Corny said...

dubz, it's better if you dont know about them. Waterbugs are like aliens, if you dont know about them, you dont see them. Once you're wise to them it's non-stop anal probes.

Anonymous said...

hi FB! hope the house renewal project is going well.

Remember Scabscape? They are giving me hell today. . .I am troubleshooting their site. Boo.

I think it is mini-miller time.

Anonymous said...

Krix, are you really working for scabs today?! OY.

Renovation report: s'all good. i will post a few pics. the worker bees were back today i guess, so maybe they are fixing all the little things that they left undone. which would be excellent... it's kind of wacky, our reno. you shall see. 100 different kinds of flooring is the way of my house.

best news: arthur is back!!