First we had help to bring down the chimney. After a half day of work Mike had the stack below the level of the roof and the hole in the roof patched. If you look carefully on the before picture you will see Mike on the roof and the crown of the chimney about half way down. He's coming back
tomorrow to keep beating on the bricks until they are all gone. The game plan at the moment is to go down to the level off the attic floor and then start on the bottom floor. The hope is that the middle section will stay and we can avoid too much chaos in our bathroom and bedroom shared wall. That means we only have to support the underside of the middle section.It was also a great day for drywall. A combination of Jules, Lynn, and I put up the back wall of the dining room. By the time we finished up tonight we had finished putting all the door trim on as well. We shrank the left side of the doorway by about a foot which balances it in the room a little better and makes the back sitting room more a room than an alcove.
Great strides on the mural for Ruby's room today as evidence by the photo's. Lynn is over there now and Jules is heading back when Ruby goes to
bed.The dumpster arrived today so we got to dump a lot of the brick etc. straight in as well as all the plaster I have been storing up since the demo on
the wall's in the living room. Finally got to clean up the vinyl siding on the back porch. That is one project that is completely done and I have to say it looks great.We are so lucky to have Nick, the husband of one of my workmates helping it us out, he is a great guy who is passionate about old houses, flow and design - he and Jeff would have a great conversation. He is able to just drop in and give some direction (okay,a lot of direction) and just swing back through later in the day.
So today's photo's - the before and after of the chimney, the update of the mural's in Ruby's room, and finally the back wall which doesn't quite show the finished door frame.
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