Smash Everything!
I hired Greg to be my small hauler this weekend. Once again I'm impressed at how much you can fit in his truck bed. We took a giant load of drywall and plaster to the dump on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. Greg loves the scenery out at the Quartine Road landfill. I think he may move there when he retires.
We hauled all the walls and ceiling from the laundry room. Two layers of drywall on most of the walls even. Probably because they covered over one layer of drywall because it was water damaged. Still, removing and hauling drywall is SO much easier than plaster.
Oh wait... Did I mention the plaster? No, I didn't even post about that yet. Well the weekend before last I finally took down the plaster on the kitchen wall between the living room. Pretty straight forward and messy. The only surprise was finding window weights in the wall. So evidently the opening I kept calling a window really was a window with double hung panes of glass or something. No one can quite figure out why you would have a window in the middle of you're house tho. Vicki thinks it might be a ventilation thing like a shotgun house layout in New Orleans.
Anyway, as I was taking layer after layer down in the laundry room I thought to myself, "this is stupid! I should just cover over all of this instead of hauling it away and replacing it." But it's a good thing I did because on that back of a lot of it was water damage and mold. Yum!
I also found definite termite damage. It doesn't look like there are any active live termites in there anymore, but they had a good time on a bunch of wood. Luckily none of it is structural, just some wood siding that leads no where and such. I guess it's a good thing I'm planning on reframing those walls with steel studs instead.
Again, I found something interesting in the ceiling. This time an old window shutter. Just one. Not even used as scrap wood to connect anything together or anything. Just stuffed up there. Maybe the mice had something to do with that too. Add it to my list of stuff that came out of the ceiling in my house.