Demo day is always exciting!!! Now that we have a go forward plan, we can get started tearing out some walls. This isn’t a complete gut job, but we still have a fair amount of work to do and we're anticipating several days of demo.

We are removing 3 major walls and they will be ‘stripped’ of plaster and lath, until the carpenters can put the new beams in.

And as always, we're saving everything we can for Habitat for Humanity's ReStore, so they can get a new home.

And as always, we're saving everything we can for Habitat for Humanity's ReStore, so they can get a new home.

And look at the difference!!!! This is after the first phase, when they pulled off all the old plaster - leaving the lath in place for phase 2.
Okay, so it still looks a bit cluttered with the studs in place, but you can already get a feel for how much the floor plan will open up.
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View towards Dining Room & Front Porch - Before |
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View towards Dining Room & Front Porch - After Demo |
Of course we've had some surprises....like all these plumbing connections where we want to open up the wall.
And there is knob and tube wiring everywhere - which appears to be disconnected, but we need our electrician to come verify for us.
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Yikes - we want to open up this wall! That's a lot of plumbing! |


Upstairs, we didn't make a lot of changes, except for the bathroom.
We've gutted it, but have discovered a few structural/plumbing challenges to our plan. While we wait for the structural evaluation, we're on hold for this go forward plan!

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Donation day!!! |
Wow, it starts out so fast doesn't it? How exciting. I hope that you don't have to wait too long before the structural evaluation comes in.
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