Next stage concrete forming up.
That's done, with shower drain planted and third concrete stage ready.
Jim has formed up a sidewalk by the chicken house/garden shed, hoping they would bring out the truck instead of mixing concrete by the wheelbarrow load, but they didn't.
....And done.
No more ceiling in any place, (except the bedrooms and laundry room and furnace room.)
Before we started on the "replace the carpet in the living room" project upstairs that ended up being "replace the kitchen, dining room and living room floor with LVP and build a new fireplace" project,
we planned to replace the basement ceiling. We wanted to for a long time since popcorn ceilings are out and we've had some water leaks over the years and it was stained. The climax came when Jim heard a dripping at 4 in the morning early in 2024, if my memory serves me correctly. It was coming from under the kitchen sink and filling the space between the floor and the ceiling. Jim pulled down part of the ceiling and we used to shop vac to clean up after the waterfall ceased. Now we had two holes in the ceiling. The first, at the end of this hallway, happened when we had internet cable put in. The company we changed to, wanted to just lay the cable on the ground, for now. Jim wasn't having any of that. He bored in a conduit to run the cable through, drilled the hole through the brick where HE wanted it, and pulled it through the walls to the opening he made and chose. It THEY do it, they just go any old way and don't made it nice. They had a bit of a fit, saying he wasn't one of their contractors, which was hogwash because Jim has put in plenty of their cables. So, it was done, the way Jim wanted it. A couple of days later, a Spectrum truck pulled up (oops, so much for hiding, hee hee) and I asked them what they were up to, and they had come to finish the job, hooking up and whatever. !!! I said it was already done, up and going, nothing more to do. I sure made me wonder about their communication!
The duct work has been taken out.
We replaced the glass brick windows with new bricks because the other ones had "vents" in them.
All these photos with the extra shiny lights are bothersome. I don't know how to make my camera make a change, perhaps it can't.
Next step is replacing the duct that is gone.
