The Demo

One of the best parts of this reno has been the demo. When we began there was a bachelor apartment on the left side of the house and the right side was used for storage. We began one saturday morning in February and it took almost a month to complete. I don't even know how many trips to the dump or how many pounds of plaster. We didn't know if the house was going to say ahhhhhh, thanks for getting that weight off me, or ahhhhhh! don't take that out - it's holding me up!

The kids got in on the demo too, we gave them hammers and crowbars and let them go to it. They were able to take down a lot of the gyproc in the old living room. There were about 7 layers of 'wall' until we got to the actual foundation. Gyproc, chip board, cardboard, newspaper, plaster, lath, barn board.

The top picture is of a whole in the foundation in the back of the left hand side of the house. Apparently there was an annex on that side of the house and this was the doorway into it, when they took it down they just covered it over with boards and this is how we found it. At the top we could see the deck in the back yard. We are almost done with cementing it back in.

When we completed the demo all that was left in there were the 2 stone flues and the staircase to the second floor.

Next we had an engineer come in and assess our structure which surprisingly was in great shape. We are going to be able to move on with just one exposed post and the rest will be in the walls.