Week 7 and 8

This week we finished taking down the main fireplace to below the floor level.  We removed more lath and plaster from the wall between the future kitchen and dining room, and from the North wall of the front room.  When we removed the wood trim in the front room, we could see that the wall paper was behind it, which leads us to believe that the wall paper in the front room is original.  I wish it was in better condition.  I've put pictures up before, but it is really cool stuff.  I throw some more on here.  

We have completed most of the ceiling and wall demoltion for the main floor at this point, and so we decided to tackle some of the work in the basement.  Clay was able to take apart the old boiler for the radiators that was in the basement and remove it.  We turned off the gas and began removing the pipes in the basement.  Pretty much all the pipes in the basement were hung below the ceiling, but I plan on pullling down the lath and plaster on the ceiling in the basement and getting everything that has to be ran new, up in the ceiling.  We also disconnected the water heater and stored in the extra storage room in the basement. 

Out on the porch, Kayden and I had pulled off all the lath and plaster ceiling, the wood soffit, and wood trim.  Everywhere we pulled down the lath and plaster, it leaves the little nails in the joists and they have to be removed, too.  The kids have always like pulling the nails, because it goes pretty quick and it's easy. This weekend, I had a couple of my nephews (11 yrs. old) at the house, and they loved pulling all the nails out of the porch lid.  They did a great job. 

Week 8 we continued all the odd and end cleaning up that needed to be done to complete the demo.  Removing more nails where the lath and plaster had been, and of course, constantly sweeping up the fine dust.  With no soffit on the house, the wind blows right through the attic and stirs it up.  I sweep the floor continually trying to keep up with it as much as possible. 

We finished removing all the pipes in the basement this week as well.  

We also sold the old refrigerator to a neighbor and the dishwasher off of KSL.  It was nice to get them off the driveway.  The gas range is still out there, though.