While the concrete dries...

While the guys have been working on the foundation in the basement, the crew from The Roth Company in Muskogee, led by our head contractor Spencer Roth, have been working upstairs pulling out the ceiling that was sagging and uncovered a mess in the attic.  Several years ago there was a fire in the attic, which we were told was started by the roof getting struck by lightning, and there was a lot of fire damage.  The roof was removed(we can tell that because of the way the support beams were installed from the top down which could have only been done with the roof off) and several of the important beams were just cut where there was significant fire damage and not replaced properly.  Therefore the ceiling was sagging along with the beams.  You will be able to see in the pictures where they just cut beams off randomly.  Also the guys from Action Air Heating and Cooling from Wagoner have been installing the HVAC ducts in the attic

The view at the top of the stairs! Yikes!!  It was a mess but they move so quickly that it was all cleaned up the next day!

 

 The bedroom directly at the top of the stairs is the master bedroom, as seen in this picture.  Fortunately there wasn't as much damage on this side of the house and therefore won't need a huge amount of work done.  The other bedroom adjacent to this room will be split up into our master bath and laundry room and will therefore have a supporting wall added to the middle to help make up for the damaged support beams.

 

 The other side of the house is where there will need to be more work done to repair the ceiling.  In this picture you can see some of the charred wood(and also the new duct work!! YAY!).

 

  

 Here is a nice view of the mess!  It's amazing how quickly they work at demo and then how quickly it all disappears into the giant dumpster out back!

 

 

  

 Well I finally went up into the attic to see the damage and so I thought I would add this picture of the ladder leading up to the roof.  And no, I didn't go any further! Haha.  One day.  But not this day!  You can see some of the burnt wood on the ladder.

 

 This is a really good picture of the new and old wood.  Our guys haven't done any repair work yet so you can really get a sense of what they did way back when to "repair" the ceiling.  You can see where they cut the beams and just did a half way decent job of adding some new wood but it wasn't enough to support the weight of the roof.

 

 Just another angle of some cut off beams.  One good thing about seeing the cut off beams is that we can see they weren't burnt all the way through, so they at least had some life left in them.  Enough to keep the roof from caving in I guess.  This will all be done correctly and then dry walled over.

 Just a few more pictures of the demolition and the HVAC going in.