Dust, Dust, and More Dust. The Wall Comes Down.

Demolition is So fun! I started with removing the sheet rock from the wall to be removed. The previous renovation on this wall by owners in the past included removal of the plaster, but not the lath. And I found an old doorway buried in the wall. This was interesting to find! I also realized that there was some of the original "post and beam" structure that we may be able to incorporate into the redesign of the room. So the picture above shows the sheet rock off, and the lath off.

While I was working on this side, I let Grace and Morgan color on the other side with crayons RIGHT ON THE WALL. It's like a carnal SIN to write on a wall with crayons, so, since the wall was coming down anyway, I figured I'd let them have at it. Here are their master pieces...

Grace told me that it's a picture of her and I walking back from the store.
Those are buckets of paint for HER new room in the wagon.



Morgan loves to color flowers and she's so good at it! Her excitement
was indescribable! She kept saying, "I just can't believe we're coloring on the wall!"

 So, after the kids were in bed, I laid into this side of the wall, removing the sheet rock, and the lath giving the first glimpses of just how big the new space would be!

Jeez. What a mess! In the back ground you can see the new wall that I built before this demo. Now the next step is some major clean up, and then building a couple of false walls on either side of the wall to be removed. This will allow me to install a pair of LVL beams to carry the load of the floors above. Then the temporary walls can be removed, and the rooms will become, for the first time, ONE. We're excited! We do lots of talking about what we're "going to do someday", but THIS, IS HAPPENING!

I'll keep everyone posted soon!

Cheers,

4DAUTRZ