Demo Complete

Stage one (of who knows how many) is complete. The demo crew finished the last of their work today taking off the last little bit of stucco from the front porch.

I learned today that the floorboards in old houses were laid on an angle so they would provide further support to the floor; making it feel sturdier under foot. Pretty solid. Also, its interesting to see the old lumber milling style compared to what we use today. A modern 2x4 is actually 1/4" of an inch smaller today then it was in 1907, so they have a distinctly more robust profile then what we use today.


A little bit closer on the floor showing the weathered nature of these boards. There are quite a few "3 penny" nails sticking out of this flooring. The flooring was most likely 60yrs older or more.


Nora's room. The second floor actually had two layers of hardwood. The primary 3/4" thick flooring that was on the first floor is present (and shown) and there was a second veneer 1/4" red oak flooring on top. Because the original was still predominantly intact, we took up only the veneer upstairs. This will allow us to put 3/4" on top of this and make an incredibly sturdy floor.



Closeup of all of the nails in the floors. These are all going to have to be taken up, or pulled out....and soon. Not sure how this is going to go. Might end up needing a late night nail party or something to get them all out quickly.



East fascia of the house. As you can see, all of the stucco and siding are off the house. We will leave the tar paper and nails in the fascia as it will not affect the exterior work we are going to do. Next up for the fascia is re-working all of the window openings to fit the new windows which have arrived and are sitting at a warehouse.

I think its going to be 2 weeks (maybe more) until we are able to tape and wrap everything which will allow us to start putting the actual windows in. Once the windows are in, then we can start siding the house.

Next week is going to be an incredibly busy week with 3 different tradesmen starting up on the house....all while we are out of town. Details on that just before we leave.