Work projects

One of the projects that Danae and I worked on was the bathroom at 'Troy's house'. This room used to be just a shower until recently when they added a toilet. We spent 40 hours getting this room cleaned, scraped, and painted. This project looked like a mountain, but with the two of us doing it together and listening to music or talking, it was a lot of fun...and even enjoyable!!

A stroller load of supplies

The bathroom before we started! Soap scum and mildew!

Scrubbing the walls.
We scrubbed the walls several times! After we poured Lime Away onto the walls, it started to eat away the remaining paint...and under the paint was black mildew. So, we had to scrub that with bleach.

Then we had to chip away at the peeling paint.
We were showered with specks of paint chippings from the air circulating in the small bathroom. We finally got all the loose paint scrapped off and ready for the base coat of paint.

Finally able to paint a base coat.

Mixing the final color.

The finishing touches...the shelves.

Finished.
Green walls with one being darker than the other three. Window and shelving stayed white, and the floor we painted gray. Of course we have to get a different shower curtain, but that is for another day!

Danae is using a hammer and chisel to clean the kitchen sink...which was used as an all-purpose sink!

I cleaned under the sink!

We also did a LOT of laundry...the old fashioned way, well, maybe not TOO old fashioned because I used wringer washers growing up and I'm not THAT old! :o) Above Lee and Danae's house is a guest house for work teams that come over to help out Water For Life. Danae takes care of the house and gets the place ready. So after the different work teams and guests left, we washed all the dirty linens and towels. We washed laundry almost every single day! Of course, this too, was much more fun with two...or three, as Kylee, Danae's 1yr old, also helped us out! :o)

Mountains of laundry

Danae and Kylee

Jaiden helping me with laundry.

Finished!