Demo Weekend - Sunday Night

We are tired and sore. More so Kevin, obviously. But very very tired. And we have one more night to get stuff done. Tomorrow we plan on finishing the removal of the tile, which is pretty easy now. Some areas have the tile, the concrete backer board, and some areas even have the linoleum and the plywood layer up. (This plywood is what the linoleum is glued to.)

We still have a working sink and dishwasher, as well as the gas stove. But the stove will go soon.

This is what the linoleum looks like. Honestly, I would have rather had this linoleum for 8 years, more than the tile, so I would have had 2 fewer layers to rip up.

Colin and Gwyn returned around lunch time. Colin jumped right in to helping out! He took out most of the nails in the floor, ripped up the backer board, swept up, and hammered holes into walls. He was a great helper! We also had some friends come over to help - Kevin and Mary Beth, whose son Braeden is in Kevin's (son) 3rd grade class. Kevin (husband) said Kevin (friend) did a lot of work today. I don't know if I said thank you enough times to convey how much we needed their help!

Colin was given the first blow at the soffit. Unfortunately, it was the toughest-built soffit any of us had ever seen. It is still standing as I type this. Kevin really isn't sure how it will come down since it is built into the framing of the walls. But it will, or we have a lot of cabinets to reorder. (Don't worry, husband was holding Colin on the ladder.) And Colin still has his work gloves from when he was little! They fit now.

Strongest soffit ever.

Looking from the kitchen into the family room.

Into the kitchen and old laundry room.

From kitchen into the hallway. Just a little more tile to go!

From kitchen into laundry room and dining room. All the flooring is up in this area.

From laundry room into kitchen.

The fitting for the oven was also well-built. This took more time than anticipated.

From hallway between kitchen and dining room into dining room. Some of the carpet is up!

From entry into kitchen. Some of the wood flooring is gone!

Bathroom, minus most of the flooring.

I got to rip up the awful step from the entry/hall into the kitchen! Here are the four layers we are ripping up. It doesn't look bad from here. (But it is worse than it looks.)

Plumber and electrician come on Tuesday, so we may not touch the rest of the carpet for a week or so. Flooring starts in about two weeks. Right now, our kitchen table is in the living room. But for most of the day it was over the coffee table. Which was weird, and there were layers of tables and dishes.