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Labor Day Demo

9/3/2024

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We made a LOT of progress on Labor Day!
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We worked from around 9:30 to 7 with one short break for lunch. Here's a summary of our accomplishments
  • Cleaned out every room, removing all furniture, shelving, knick-knacks, mirrors, pictures, pillows, bedding, rugs, curtains, rods, etc. from the house except for the stove (the lot will easily fill one dumpster and then there was plenty more volume that we burnt)
  • Gutted the kitchen
  • Gutted the bathroom
  • Removed the bedroom doors
  • Removed the fireplace insert
  • Opened the wall into the sunroom, removing the barn door and the wall extension that had been built there
  • Opened the wall between the kitchen and living room
  • Demolished a hutch 
  • Demolished an outdoor structure (we discovered from some writing on construction materials that the building was called the pump house at one time) 
  • Burned a bunch of stuff
Every item made out of wood, from kitchen and bathroom cabinets to the outdoor hutch, was very strongly built and difficult to bust up and heavy to carry. Also screws. So many screws in everything.

Kitchen

 Before and After Comparison
Kitchen Before
​Kitchen Gutting
PS, the Mouse Kingdom
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Kitchen Wall Removed

Bathroom

 Before and After Comparison
Bathroom Gutting
Still more to do in here, from removing shower, tiling, wainscoting, and trim.

Bedrooms

Before-ish and after Bedroom #1
So...no before pictures in the first bedroom? I am not a very good photojournalist. I do have three of the living room from which you can see a little into the first bedroom. That's the best I've got.
Before and after Bedroom #2

Sunroom

Before and After
More to be done in here including removing fireplace housing, removing trim and wainscoting, removing and replacing floors, windows, and doors.
In progress

Loft

Before and After
All my post cleanout pictures.
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Again, terrible photography skills on display. So much furniture up here that had to be taken down and out.

Living Room

Before and After
All my living room pictures.

The Shed and Hutch

I have no closeup picture of the hutch pre- or postdemo. But in the picture of the house, you can see the shed to the right of the house and the hutch between the house and the shed, against the back wall of the house.

The Trash Pile and Mattresses

Mattresses cost $60 a piece to take to the dump!!! So we're carting them back to our house.
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