It's busy in this house!

I've been very busy getting the house ready to put on the market.  Two big things that have to happen (besides cleaning out the closets and getting rid of all my years of junk) is a new roof and new concrete.  This weekend, I got the roof done.  Today, the concrete started.  Here is how it went.

Friday, the roofers were scheduled to deliver supplies and the dumpster.  And indeed they did.  But then they stuck around and before I knew it, they were cleaning shingles off the roof.  They were working on a house in Park City and they had rain so they came down the canyon and worked on mine instead.  Before I knew it, the front of the house was stripped down to the plywood.  New plywood was put on and the sheeting was in place.  During the process, there was a huge pile of shingles round the house but we went to dinner and came back and it was all tidied up...and it was raining like crazy!  In the morning, they started very early and worked the entire day.  They finished stripping the roof and then turned around and roofed it.  And they roofed all day until they were done.  These are some of the hardest working guys I've seen.  I'm not sure what time they finished because we went out to dinner but I was totally impressed with the job they did.  I also replaced the rain gutters and they didn't quite finish those but they will be back to finish them this week.

The tear off mess.  I love the shingle in the shrub.

Making progress.

Monday morning, at 7:00 sharp, they came to pick up the dumpster from my driveway.  I had less than 10 minutes to pull my car in and load it with all the donation stuff I had stashed in the garage.  But it wasn't long and in came the trailer from the concrete guys.  They wasted no time digging out the old concrete and getting ready for new concrete.  At 9:00, the owner came and told me it was going very smooth so they will be bringing in the concrete on Tuesday (tomorrow).  This is great and super fast!  Which is perfect because I am doing the back driveway and the front walkway so I am basically stuck in the house until I can walk on the concrete.  They said that is 24 hours to walk on it but a week before I can drive on it.  So my beautiful new car is parked on the street for awhile, while this is all getting done.

Digging out the front walk.  These guys did it all by hand
with a sledge hammer and a lifter.  Very hard workers.

The driveway torn apart!  It is going to look so nice once done!

I'm taking advantage of the time I am stuck inside to continue to work on getting the house ready to go on the market.  I have done a great job cleaning up but I have more to do and need to do other touch up work around the house.  I need to keep that whip cracking on myself because they are scheduled to do photographs on Friday and we are planning to hit the market on Monday.  According to the realtors, I should have an offer within a week!

This frantic pace is pretty....well...frantic.  But I am making progress and it is working out so far.