When Mark and I arrived the morning of Saturday the 26th, the wall between the living room and dining room was almost totally gone. Somehow I failed to get a picture, but there will be some in following days.
Vadim got to work immediately ripping out the built-ins in the master bedroom. He worked in there a huge portion of the day with no compaints and required little assistance. He really enjoyed tearing things down.
Mark went to work on the kitchen. He tore out those cabinets with a vengeance (he was excited to see the kitchen go)! That man can work a sledge hammer and pry bar!
Goodbye ugly yellow sink!!
By the end of Saturday, Mark had all of the cabinets completely gone. In the process of working on the kitchen, Mark and my dad discovered a mouse nest behind the dishwasher. Luckily, it's occupant was dead. The little rodent had stolen 2 pacifiers, a small bowl, and various other household items and created quite the home for himself. On Sunday, I was sanding in the master bedroom, right next to where Vadim is standing in the picture below. The wall he is working on is the shared wall between the bathroom and master bedroom. I looked down behind the bathtub and saw 2 little eyes looking back at me. Apparently there is still 1 rodent in there, but the D-Con we put down should take care of him!
This is the wall behing those built-in cabinets in the master. Vadim had to pull down the front of the cabinets, then rip out all of the shelving and structural pieces. Then he tore out the wooden backing of the cabinets. Next he ripped out all of the plaster (no drywall in this old place, folks). And finally he pulled off all of the lath under the plaster. Most of this he did on his own and all in 1 day! He is a demolition machine!!
On Saturday, Dad spent most of the day re-routing the duct work we had discovered Friday night. By Saturday evening he had figured out how to tuck it completely into the adjacent wall and was patching in the drywall.....If you looked at it now, you'd never know it had even been done!
Mom and I spent the day taking turns with the power sander and the ugly walls.
Saturday was an overwhelming day for me. I felt like maybe we were in over our heads. It seemed like everywhere we turned there was more destruction to be done. It didn't take long for things to turn around though!
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