Opening Walls!

On Friday Bill and Bob began cutting open the walls as per our architect Craig's design, and it really looks and feels fantastic in there. I've provided a closeup picture of the shiplap and the way it joins together, which is interesting. Also, in some old fiberglass insulation I saw what looked like a bunch of receipts or something - go figure - crazy old house.

Oh crap - more flagstones!

Today we discovered yet even MORE flagstone patio underneath backyard dirt, and had to commit time and effort to breaking it apart, so that it won't interfere with the new addition's new piers. Also, we can use all these limestone flagstones in the new patio, which is great!

Addition is now completely gone

We found a flagstone patio underneath the old addition! That means we have a bunch of free flagstones out of which to make our new patio! Bill and Bob and Amanda are doing a great job of carefully denailing, sorting and stacking any and all reusable materials, too.

Extreme Demolition!

Bill and Bob (and Amanda) got very busy yesterday and today on carefully demolishing our house's crappy rear addition. And Matt took down a whole gigantic dead oak, sawed it and stacked it meticulously behind the garage for firewood. Yeah! Progress!

Kitchen Removal

the other day we sold our entire kitchen on craigslist, and are very grateful to Bill and Bob for uninstalling the whole thing in a fraction of the time it would have taken me or Laurel to do it ("Before" kitchen picture included here for reference). Also they began to remove the doors and closets in the next room, and de-nail and stack the re-usable wood in a neat little pile.

Cieling Cleared!

Finally cleared the cielings (minus the kitchen, on hold) of drywall! Look at this mess. I ripped a large piece of the ancient cheesecloth intact - just by accident - and it had the name of the company printed on it. A little time capsule.