Updates on our 1930's farmhouse

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Last year in April, we bought our first home, a 1930's farm house. It was in bad shape, kind of gutted, nothing worked and farm animals lived throughout.
No pictures yet, but I'm working on it.
Half of the clapboards have been painted, the 3 metal roofs of the extensions have been sanded and painted. We will have a company come out later this Spring when it's warm to paint the original 2 story roof and the second floor of the clapboards. We don't have a ladder nor the equipment to risk our lives painting them.
We tore out all the rotting, moldy, urine and poop covered carpets. Underneath we found original wood floors, water damaged, stained, painted and a mess. Been slowly pulling out all the nails and other odd things in them. I added a handrail in the stairwell, we painted that hall a fresh white. It was burnt, grimy and full of weird holes we cleaned and patched up. Livingroom has plywood flooring, no idea why or if anything is under it. Had the gas heater cleaned and fixed, it's wonderful.
Started soaking and scraping off the mop-corn ceiling. Reinstalled most of the original doors in their proper place, a few doors are missing. Added a doorbell, changed and fixed all the lighting and electrical outlets. Also have started adding cabinets in the kitchen, closed off the crawlspace and cellar holes, mice still find their way in. Going to concrete the porch steps closed and see if it helps with the mouse issue.
Bought 3 gates, reused two old gates. Added a lovely Tar and Chip driveway, a new mailbox and painted the horrid, plastic shutters brown to match the roof. I will be replacing them in time with real, working wood shutters on all windows this Summer or Fall! Cut and attached missing picket fence boards, added a lot of dirt to get water moving away from the house.
Half way installed gutters on the Chicken Coop, Barn and Well House winter came and I had to pause it. Installed a huge, whole house filter, new water heater, new fixtures in the sinks and bought a new electric stove, the gas stove housed mice and the pipe connection was iffy, so it was closed off.
We will also be tearing down all the exterior wood from the laundry room, most likely the inside as well and redo it all. I will slowly be adding clapboard to it to make it seamless! Will also insulate the ceiling/roof at that point.
$600 worth of shower tiles were bought this weekend, insanity for such a small room! We have to tear out all the walls surrounding the tub and remove the floor around the toilet. We chose a floor tile, shower wall tile, shower frame tile and paint color for the rest of the bathroom walls. Small upgrade for now, will replace the sink with a pedestal sink, new lighting and get the tiny gas heater in there working. Since that wall will be removed, shower pipes will be upgraded to 3/4in piping for real water pressure! Kitchen sink, bathroom sink and toilet pipes will remain at 1/2in since they do not need the upgrade and it would require demo of a lot of walls.
Root cellar will be dug out, repaired and sealed from moisture. A floating floor will be made and installed for a real ,working cellar.
We have gone with a very pale yellow for the clapboards and a nice, rich brown for shutters and roof.
Barn roof will be patched, painted and walls will be repaired. Fencing will be stretched back up and repaired.
I think that is everything we have done and needs to be done soon. We are hoping to sell the house once the market is up and proper again. Paid 70k, but with all the upgrades, hoping to at least meet what the house was originally worth before the market crash, even in it's deteriorated state. Obviously, 150-200k would be amazing. Possible to get 250k in the best situation, though we do not have a garage or other odd ends other houses have.

[Abuela]

Sounds wonderful - I can't wait to see pictures of your progress (and your challenges!).

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Here are some pics of what we are in the middle of working on.

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Hard-hat only shower?
Jesus, this looks bad! It's beyond my imagination how someone could let a place slip like that... but on the other hand, all the better for the buyer, because things like that make for cheap houses...

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There was linoleum on that plywood, but that plywood is on top of 'brick' linoleum, which is over another layer of unknown linoleum and that is on plywood and then a wood floor[like the rest of the house]. No idea how much is rotted out near the toilet, hoping it's not ALL the way through those layers...
The whole room, all walls, ceiling, hallway/closet was a high gloss blood red. There's a weird grease to it, the red rubs off, but doesn't dull.
The house was just gross, sickening what these people did to the house...

But! It should be a pretty little room soon! This weekend we will be upgrading the shower pipe and then demo the shower walls, plastic sheeting tile in the rest of the room and prepping for tile. All that on Thursday and Friday. Hopefully starting to put up tile Friday night, since we need to shower Sunday night for work, lol.

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My first thought when I saw the red walls was that it had been painted with Redgard, which is a rubbery waterproofing membrane. It goes on just like paint. It is either rolled or brushed on and then can be painted over when fully dry. It goes on pink but dries to that shade of red in your photos. I used it as a temporary measure in my guest bath so I can actually use the tub as a shower. The walls are sheetrock with plastic wall tile half-way up. I painted the walls with the red gard (from Home Depot) and then painted with my selected paint. It does leave a bit of texture because it is so thick, but it is truly waterproof and I can use the shower in there until we are able to get to that room for real. I just never intended to have it last for 5 years! But I would NEVER in a trigamillion years, use it as a visible coat of paint. But then again, in your room, the P.O. might have actually used that shade of regular paint!

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There is no texture, smooth, peels off the fake tiles and the color rubs off, is greasy and slippery. Is that what Redguard feels like?
I painted the ceiling white and half of the shower walls white just to brighten the room temporarily. It was just so dark and gross in there...

[pqtex]

There is no texture, smooth, peels off the fake tiles and the color rubs off, is greasy and slippery. Is that what Redguard feels like?
I painted the ceiling white and half of the shower walls white just to brighten the room temporarily. It was just so dark and gross in there...

It has a rubbery feel. If you get a piece loose on the plastic tiles, it would sort of peel off in strips and be kind of stretchy, not at all like regular peeling or flaking paint. It has more texture if rolled on than if it was brushed. It is used as its own primer when thinned by half (if I recall the proportions correctly), but is painted on full strength as the final coat. I don't think it feels greasy or slippery. I'm not sure about the color rubbing off. I loved being able to use the shower in there. Prior to painting with the Red Gard, I had stapled shower curtains along the three walls around the tub. Looked really classy! Not!

I think I have some before/after photos somewhere that show how bright the red is when dry.

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Yes, it peels in long strips. You can see that in the toilet picture!
Ugh....I hate when people misuse this type of thing...

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Here's the tile we will be using, I think the little glass one is supposed to be used as a backsplash, that's why one box cost $109...ugh. But that's what the fiance chose and he didn't want to 'special order' or go to a different store.

And no, the yellow will not be the wall color. Going to use a light latte color. There is a ton of yellow in this banana house...lol. That yellow is in the kitchen and on the outside on the clapboards. Painting the coop and well house the same color. Not sure if I should paint the barn the same or just refresh the red and redo the roof in steel like it already is.

The solid 12in square tile will be the floor, 12in mix glass tile will be in the shower and the long slightly darker will be the trim around the shower, possibly the floor border, too.