Demolition permit has been issued. We are now in the full swing of gutting the house down! Will brought in a dumpster in the backyard. (The first one he brought in was too big for our lovely narrow alley....so he had to go back for a smaller one. Thanks, Will!) We spent a whole day taking down the chimney structure from the 1st and 2nd floors. You don't ever imagine how tedious that job is! You have to take down each and every piece of brick by a few knocks of hammer, and then scrape off all the old (130 years old, for that matter) mortar stuck on each brick for possible re-use. We took turns in taking bricks down and hauling them to the backyard. We now have an estimated amount of 1,000 pieces of vintage bricks! A few days later Will and Co. came in to haul out the "big stuff" - old stove, water heater and furnace, bathtub - all in perfectly non-working condition. Lovely, isn't it? Then we went back to knock down plaster and the wood structure underneath. Now the house is really just the exterior brick structure, floor joists and the roof.
2 comments:
Ernest and Mariko,
Thanks for sending the link to your blog. It is always fun to follow the pleasures and frustrations of people renovating or restoring old houses! Here is a link to the Community Forklift warehouse in Maryland that we mentioned yesterday - what a neat place to hunt for old house parts, and a good place to donate excess building materials or salvaged items - http://www.communityforklift.com/
Cheers,
Victoria and Jeremy
Thank you Victoria and Jeremy. We are planning to keep on posting our progress. Please keep on reading!
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