First Floor Demo

First Floor Cleanup

Following the demolition and the unexpected plumbing, I got to work cleaning up the first floor in preparation the first floor framing activities, including replacing the load bearing wall, closing up the remaining window on the North wall, and adding fire blocking to close up the balloon construction walls. The new dumpster arrived a couple of […]

Random Projects

Unexpected Plumbing

After the demo party my mind was set on clearing out the rest of the lath. The dumpster was completely full, but we ordered a new one that was being delivered on Thursday. Wednesday evening I went down to start pulling up the subfloor in the kitchen and the floor in the foyer and I […]

First Floor Demo

Stairs Demolition

Saturday we had our second “Demo Party”, where we invite friends and family to come demolish our house in exchange for food and drink, and it was a big success. We took down all of the plaster and lath in the foyer, including the stairwell, as well as the office on the second floor. Then […]

First Floor Demo

Goodbye Original Floors

The first floor originally had wood floors throughout, as was typical of the time it was built. These were floated on furring strips running across the subfloor. The bedrooms had a 4 1/2″ wide plank and the rest was 3 1/2″ wide, each different types of wood, 3/4″ thick. On top of this flooring someone had […]

Plans and Permits

Next Steps

Back in August we had  a demo party and gutted most of the first floor, but we left the front foyer and staircase because we knew it would be a while before we were ready to start framing, plus we didn’t have our building permit yet so we wanted to leave the front entrance intact. […]

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