Sunday, October 10, 2010

The Great Room uncovered

For the past three days we have chopped, sawed, crow barred and hammered away all the secondary floors and all the walls that will now make up the 'great room' - we are tired, but we are on schedule for putting the new plywood floors down next weekend. Excited to get back to work tomorrow - so we can have have a break from manual labour!!

Secondary floor waiting to be pulled out. The two of four walls that are also waiting to be torn down!

Chris busy working

You can't do manual labour without your crack hanging out!! Builders bum.

Floor up!

Bathroom floor up. Shower unit down. Cast iron bath remains - until we get a stable floor joist, it will stay there - plus way too heavy for Chris and I - need some more muscle to move this little gem!

Hole for the loo - floor completely rotten!

Chris wearing his posh face mask !

Wall seperating small front room and living room is gone! Albeit with a smashed window!!

New view from front room - The walls you see are now gone too!

Dry wall gone - just the frame left!

2 comments:

  1. Great pictures!I love watching the saga unfold and the efforts of all your hard work slowly taking shape. Wow! You all seem to know what you're doing. I'm always too scared to take anything apart for fear of not getting it back together and here you have worked down to the frame. Make sure you put in better rated insulation - it will pay for itself in the long run.
    Keep up the work and it'll look fantastic one day! Love to ya both!
    Barbara

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  2. Thanks Barbara
    Its somewhat overwhelming at times - but we are almost down with the knocking down - it might look like we know what we're doing - but looks can be deceiving!! We certainly plan to put in high rated insulation. We agree it will definitely be worth it in the long run - winters are cold in the Rockies!!!
    Hope all is good with you guys, and hopefully you'll see the finished product someday in person!!

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