We will be adding character as we go, I have to look at this like a doctor and patient, I need to treat the cancer before treating the acne. There is a lot of work to be done on the inside, the first floor has been pushed down by the lack of supports, the back wall had a lot of rot the someone "fixed", except they didn't jack anything up, so it has made both floors sag as well. The bones are good and these things don't scare me to fix, but they certainly need to be dealt with first. My priority is to clean up the trash outside so I don't have a frozen pile of **** under two feet of snow to deal with later. I am trying to minimize my costs as this was one of those deals that I had to do, but had not planned for it, so the budget is tight right now, especially going into the winter. I will be tearing out the old heating system and I hope that the scrap from the copper will offset all the disposal of the trash. I figure it will be a fairly long project, but I hope to be living there early next year. I am figuring I won't be installing a permanent heat source this year, purely based on my budget. Once we open things up, I may be able to install a pellet stove or something similar and have it essentially heat the first floor and maybe the heat will get to the upstairs rooms a bit. I am getting ahead of myself, structural work first, I have electric heaters that will be used for the time being, as we only will need a bit of heat to actually work.
