Day 427

Another day of destruction...

We went up to third floor and started to knock some more stuff down. We are coming to a place that is really messy, the stairs. Where exactly do you stop? We aren't exactly ready to knock the plaster down in this area on 2nd floor as we are living in these rooms. So I guess we have decided just stop at the edge of the floor (3rd floor). The mess falls down the stairs and piles up by the door. We use some boards to try to keep as much of it out of 2nd floor as possible. The only good thing about this is that once we get everything knocked down there won't be as much mess ever again. :D

This picture was taken from the 3rd floor landing room. From here you can now see through to Zeb's room. We have that wall knocked down. Near the bottom of the picture you can see the railing around the stairs. Much of the plaster and lathe from that wall fell down there. We had to scoop it up into buckets just to clear the path for us to get back downstairs. But the plaster was much better than the insulation from the ceiling above that also fell down into there. Hopefully there won't be too much more falling down there until we get to the stairwell walls.

So here is the update. We have three rooms mostly cleared out. (No insulation in the ceiling, no plaster and lathe on the walls and ceilings) Zeb's room still has insulation and plaster and lathe on the ceiling. We have most of the plaster and lathe off of the walls in there. The other room that we have not yet worked on much is the little bathroom. A couple of the walls are knocked down, but other than that we have not yet started on it. If things go well, we should have all of third floor gutted and cleaned out by the end of June. :D Then on to the fun stuff....making things work...making things better