Evan's Room Trim "Prep" (8/6/16)

Tonight we planned on putting the base trim in Evan's room.  We knew there was a little mold right behind the old trim that was still in there and we were going to have to cut it out.  Well when we started cutting we could see there was more on the backside of the sheetrock, so we just kept cutting until we got it all.  We ended up emptying everything out of the room knowing we would need to do sheetrock work which would create a dust mess so Evan would need to "move" out until it's done.  Evan is now shacking up with Kate, which of course they LOVE!  Highlight of the summer :)

So now that the room is emptied out and we are doing sheetrock work in there, this appears to be the perfect time to put in the 2nd large egress window!  This is an item that is on "the list" that Mike strongly said will stay on the list, funny thing is-it was his idea to put it in now, ha!  It's definitely something that we wanted to do but knew it would be a big undertaking and mess.  Now seems like the perfect time :)  Nothing else planned for the weekend and the weather couldn't be better. We already have the window so we will have to dig out more dirt since the window is much larger than what is currently there; build the retaining block wall like all the other egress windows have; cut the block wall to fit in the new window; frame in the new window and install it; and then more sheetrock around the window.  Definitely a lot of work, but it will look so nice in Evan's room!

Old window that will be removed, new will be twice the size