Sarah and Ben's House: The Demo Continues

Having learned how fun it is to destroy things, the demo continued this past weekend. Again we were focusing on the kitchen area, removing both the floors and some more drywall with a big ole crowbar the contractor let us borrow. One of the contractors' workers was taking down drywall in specific areas looking for water and termite damage which is good because there turned out to be quite a bit of both. With all the demo we ended up with a huge pile of junk in the backyard, and not wanting to rent a dumpster, I was the lucky one to haul everything to the dump...3 trips in all.

Sarah's parents came down later in the day and helped remove the rest of the drywall from the wall we're going to remove from the downstairs. Luckily for us this house was renovated a bit back in 1994 (judging by the date stamped on the drywall) so all the wall's are insulated and the electrical and plumbing is modern and only needs minor work.

We had the easy job for today...Vic, the contractor and his crew were under the house repairing the foundation wall in the spider-infested crawlspace. It's a brick wall and there was so much mortar missing the bricks had started falling out. So the guys skimmed over the entire wall with a cement to bond the wall back together....they ended up putting on 80 bags or so and even re-poured one of the footings that had been undermined.

Next weekend, the roof...