The Demo Begins!

Not wasting any time at all we started on the demo to remove pretty much everything in the house so that we would have a blank slate to start with. With some hard work and a sledgehammer we were able to pull out everything in the house in just two weeks. The old radiators, oil boiler and pipes were collected by a guy who was going to recycle them. We were just pleased to have him come and take them away as they weighed a ton!

We started in the upstairs floor pulling out the bathroom first and removing the old pink cast iron bath wasn't easy, but we got it out. Behind the layers of stick on vinyl tile in the bathroom it was like being an archaeologist uncovering a history of the house. By the end of the first day everything was out of the bathroom and it was back to the studs!

Next was the bedrooms! We removed all of the drywall to discover that there was no insullation at all in the outside walls. No wonder it was so cold up there. The only insulation in the house was some blown in stuff that was in the roof space, and which all fell out when we took down the plaster board! Messy job.

With all of the drywall out and upstairs completely gutted we got a good look at the 1930's electrics and they would have been more at home in a museum! Good job were getting the place rewired to 2010 standard. Already the house was looking far better.

Once the upstairs was done we moved our way downstairs. Our plans to take a little longer to get everything out were put into a higher gear with the impending snow storm that was about to hit, and not wanting our dumpster to be filled with snow and be stuck there for who knows how long, we pushed ahead to get everything out by February 6th so the dumpster could be taken away before the snow storm hit! It was tough work but we got there just in time.

While doing demo throughout the house we kept finding pennies and dimes everywhere! This truely was the 'Money Pit'! Just waiting to find a 1943 copper penny, and then we can move to Hawaii!

The stairs, dining room and kitchen look totally different now they are all open. We found some very funny wall paper and floor tiles during the demo, but thats for another blog!