When we moved into the old house there was no running water inside. In order to make life easier for his family, my husband built a very small bathroom in the main room which would be our living room/bedroom. We, thinking we would live in this house for a short six months while we built our new house, were fine with it being so tiny. It was like an RV bathroom, but we had the most important room of the house INSIDE and not outside. We appreciated this greatly during the rainy times and winter time. Not real convenient when we had guests, so we tried not to have too many since there wasn't room for them anyway, but it worked!
However, that six months of building turned into SIX years before we were even able to move into the new house.
During that long period of living "temporarily" in that house, we constantly fought the battle of mold and mildew. Our youngest son suffered from allergies and didn't do well living in those conditions.
Once we moved into the new house in November of 2011, we moved our Sunday school ministry into the old house and the adults then switched to meeting in the new house. In order to have the old house professionally treated for mold after all most everything had been moved out, we started removing the bathroom walls to open up that corner and facilitate the treatment process. We had no doubts of what we would find when we began tearing the bathroom apart.
Here is how it all looked.
Pictures are worth a thousand words, right? Now you know of one of the many reasons we are thankful to have finally moved out of this old house!
