Day 385

Jonathan decided to take the day off and work on the kitchen. We are supposed to send the dumpster back by the end of the week, so we wanted to see if we could fill it up. And of course there is always the leaking pipe problem. So we worked on getting the rest of the plaster and lathe off of the walls and then there was the rest of the insulation. Wow that stuff is nasty, mixed in with a 100 years worth of dust. But we did get most of that off and out to the dumpster. As we worked our way down the wall with the drain pipe it was quite easy to see why and where it was leaking. The crack was smaller the higher it was.

Here is our leaking pipe. We are wondering how long it has been leaking. We didn't notice it last spring. But then we weren't working on this area of the house that much.

After we got everything off of the walls, we were looking for what else we could fill the dumpster with. And not wanting to go up to third floor and dig out some more of that insulation, we decided to just work on the yucky tile on the floor. It was a bit hard to get a start on this floor. I guess we were just out of practice. But once we got going it was actually pretty easy. We got about half of the tile off before we stopped for the night. The floor near the south wall (and the pipe) was quite wet. But it isn't all rotten which is again making us wonder how long the pipe has been leaking. But we have found areas of the floor that are not in that good of shape. Once we get all of the yucky tile off and we get a chance to take a good look at all of the floor we will be able to start thinking about what we want to do with the floor and the rest of the room.