the nightmare continues- cement in the dining room

so let me begin by saying. the people who owned this house before my parents. added things on left and right, BUT didn't have the skills or the smarts to do it right. so there are alot of half assed things we've lived with in this house for 15 + years. we(LANCE AND I) have owned it for almost a year. and the whole time since we've been married Lance has complained about the stupid stuff the people did. Like the dining room, was originally a patio. the PO(previous owners) enclosed it. carpeted, drywalled and wall papered the whole thing , CARPETED it and yet NEVER leveled the floor. yeah ! so the floor always had a slight slope, that wasn't totally obvious until you sat on that side of the table, or something spilled and flowed downhill. then you knew there was an issue. kids liked if for rolling cars. and they must have liked the spills flowing waterfall style down hill since they did it all the time.

k so first thing Lance wants to change is the flooring, and of course we have to level the floor. yeah i am not a fan of half assed renovations but doing it the right way is turning out to be a FREAKING nightmare. along with tearing out the arches he hated , that were totally "rigged" i won't say what kind of rigged but you can think it if you know it. (I pretend to be PC)
So fixing the floor involved getting alot of cement. and raising the low side of the floor 2 inches! holy crap 2 on the low side. anyway. they did it TUESDAY. the day Lance went out for guys night(i shouldn't complain about that since he goes out what? ONCE compared to my 100 times ratio) and complaining about it makes me out to be the blitch that i am. so i won't complain but he went out ON the evening that we had loads of wet cement in the dining room, and no one can go in there AT ALL! for ANY REASON! WET CEMENT! 6 kids home with a crazy mama! INSANE! tools all over the house. and WET CEMENT! it was a nightmare.
well some time in the afternoon right after most of it was put down and smoothed, a little bird flew into the new door hole ,(that is STILL lacking a door) and well, i took pictures. here you can see the cement on the floor, and if you click on the image it gets bigger, and you might be able to see the bird. at one point we had the door open so the bird could fly out, and a dog ran in and made paw prints. hilarious. maybe i'll share the chat i had with Lance. it is classic. man we chat alot. him in the office. and me in the kitchen. it works for us. and he's always on a call.

3:57 PM me: spare bird in dining

room

Lance: fun

me: no good

4:00 PM help

dog prints in dining room

Lance: on conf call

with 3 others

me: bird still in here.making prints

and dogs.

NICE

got the dogs out

Lance: not cool

see the bird ?

and this is where you hang out when you can't go in the dining room. apparently we should have kept the play room a play room while we were doing this crap! NOT GOOD. and this is next to my computer, in the kitchen, next to the piano squeezed by the kitchen table with benches and tools on top. CLASSY!

yesterday the floor got scraped and ground smooth. oh and more drywall happened, that insulation hole is patched. and there is a nice layer of drywall dust all over. and breathing it is a real treat. and bonus? lance went into the attic to move some wiring and made a huge mess with insulation in the dressing room. i really appreciated THAT! (said with extreme sarcasm)

and someone wondered about our house size. it's 5 bedrooms. it's technically called a tri-level BECAUSE THE BASEMENT WINDOWS OPEN TO THE GROUND LEVEL. with the main floor- FRONT ROOM KITCHEN, DINING ROOM,LAUNDRY ROOM. short steps up to the upstairs with a master bedroom and bath, 2 kids bedrooms. and a HALL bathroom. short steps down to the basement. with a bathroom, family room, 2 kids bedrooms. the bathroom down there used to be a powder room but we converted it to a full bath a few years ago adding a tub/shower.

the office and the dressing room are what were originally a 2 car garage. again a PO(previous owner) project. Lance added central AC to both rooms about 10 years ago. and to the dining room, which i said in the beginning was a patio. the dog room is more add on but unfinished, and is like a shed,where our extra fridge is, and other normally garage crap goes . eventually we'll convert it into a food storage pantry. we already have the tile for it. so the door hole goes from the dining room into the dog room, planning ahead for the pantry. Tony wants to do it now, and we think it can wait for a couple years. so it probably will.

SO THERE WE ARE. THE ALL CAPS IS THANKS TO PIERCE WHO HAS HELPED ME POST SO IT TOOK EXTRA LONG. NOW I GET TO GO CLEAN THE INSULATION IN THE DRESSING ROOM. TOTAL LA (LAME A$$) AND WE ALL KNOW I WILL BLITCH AGAIN BEFORE THIS IS OVER.