Dust Everywhere
It was a busy weekend here in Pigeon Point. Saturday said goodbye to the kitchen (many thanks to our demolition crew: Eric, Sasha, and Justin; you guys rock!), Sunday we junked the furnace, and Monday we trashed the foyer. Up until this weekend we were doing a pretty good job keeping the jobsite clean, but now there is Dust Everywhere. As I write this in our upstairs “living room”, I see dust on the window sill that doesn’t belong. Perhaps this dust is traveling through the gaping hole in the kitchen ceiling, which currently provides a nice view for any patron of our second floor bathroom?
Speaking of which, check out the hack-job performed by a long-gone plumber. Four joists in a row are cut through to the point of worthlessness.
The dumpster is 95% full. And we still have the kitchen floor to rip up. If it fits, it’ll be just barely. We started to remove the floor tonight but it bested our patience and our appetites, so the remainder will have to wait a few days. We’ll keep the dumpster through this next weekend and hopefully have it hauled on Monday next.
We got a $100 gift card for the Home Deposit in the mail today, a gift from our friendly credit union which is financing our “little project”. I had a good laugh on Saturday as I was loading stuff into the dumpster and one of our new neighbors from up the street walked by and asked if we were “working on a house project?” “Uh, yeah, a little one”, I said.
With the demolition nearly complete I need to start thinking about the next phase: framing. We’ll be replacing some parts of the sub floor, moving and adding a few walls, and opening up a space with a pretty large beam. I need to figure out what order this is happening in, and what exactly we need from the lumber yard. I know I’m going to have to special-order the beams.