This Weekend's Work (continued)

One of the pleasures of opening the walls of your house is finding all the lovely things that are lurking behind them. As mentioned in the previous entry, we found a serious case of dry rot on the south wall of our second bedroom. We were told by the inspector that the mold on our wall looked old, so most likely there was a leak in the roof that was fixed many moons ago, but the damage was not taken care of. What you see in the before and after pictures is dry rot that spread from the studs to the sides of the house. I replaced all of the affected studs, but there is still a lot of dry rot on the siding of the exterior wall. When we re-side the house in a couple of years we will have access to the rotted siding under our vinyl siding, we will be able to replace the remaining dry rot. Helpful hint to all you DIY'ers out there (courtesy of my dad, Don), to stop dry rot from spreading, mix a 50/50 solution of Clorox and water and give it a good spray down. Ahh, bleach. What doesn't it do??
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During:
After:
In the walls, we also found a newspaper from January 1951 and a good share of cobwebs ;)
This is Christina after scraping popcorn off the ceilings for a few hours.... and then some artsy shots.