A Rain of Frogs

For my British friends, but mostly for my wonderful wife.

Courtesy of deviantArt.

They take that asbestos stuff seriously. This was our basement door yesterday. Today, it’s the cleanest basement in the universe. I think it’s safe to say the basement will never again be as clean as it is right now.

Lathe is gone! Pretty much at the point that we can start rebuilding.

Like all major projects, there’s a list of dependancies. The asbestos guys are coming on Tuesday, should be done on Wednesday. Once they’re done, the plumber can come in and remove the kitchen radiator. Once he’s done, I can get the plywood down on the subfloor, and once that’s done, there’s nothing stopping us from putting the tiles down.

In the meantime, there’s wiring to be done and plumbing to be moved from one side of the kitchen to the other.

And completely unrelated to the kitchen, we’ve booked the guys to come in and sand and finish the hardwood on the main floor. As much as we’d love to have the upstairs done now too, it’s too difficult to schedule at this time, so it’ll have to wait till later. Thankfully they’re in pretty good shape upstairs.

Plaster is all gone! Nothing left on the walls and the ceiling but lathe, and that’s coming off next. I have to say, removing plaster is a dirty, heavy, and hard job. Thankfully the ceiling came off far easier than I had expected it to.

Note the knob & tube wiring in the second picture. Part of the next great adventure!

I know I missed a day. but that’s because there was little discernible difference between the end of Day 1 and Day 2. This was largely because I used Day 2 to finish removing the floor. It was a tough slog, but it’s down to the original floorboards now.

Sarah spend most of the day in the hallway, painstakingly scraping ancient carpet underlay from the hardwood floor. After decades of traffic, it had bonded to the varnish.

So last night we started taking the plaster down. We’re about half-way through the walls, and then we’ll get the ceiling down.

Despite the dust, I really am enjoying this!