Demolition Continues

Parlor - Before

This past Friday and Saturday we worked at some of the demolition work needed on the main level. I found out that the water heater does not work, so we will need to get that replaced before we can clean with hot water. On Friday Andrew and I tore out the tile in the "grand parlor". He was a great help! We tore out the floor and threw the tile into the back of the old truck to be hauled away eventually.

Parlor - After

Once the tile was completely torn out, the floor looked much better and the dip in the floor at the bottom of the stairs was not nearly as pronounced. The brown tile that surrounds the fire place is original to the home, assuming that the wood flooring is original. We opted to keep that. I think that it will look really nice once we sand it out and refinish it. When we pulled off the trim around the tile I found at least one mouse nest location as well as some mold surrounding the front door due to condensation where they never sealed the doorway when the previous owners "rehabbed" this room.

Kitchen - Before

Boys like to burn stuff

Aaron and Beth came by on Saturday to help with tearing out the old kitchen cabinets. The counter top was more of the same tile that had been used on the floor. We just broke it up and burned everything. The original kitchen floor, which you can see in this picture, was torn out  with the help of our three boys.

Kitchen sub-floor and under-lying sister boards

Once we got past the first layer of flooring, the sub-floor  had to come up to remove the sister boards that the previous owner had put into place. They basically tried to level out the kitchen floor with these additional boards by simply nailing them up higher and higher. I want to try to level the floor out as much as possible using jacks, so these sister boards had to go along with the sub-floor over them.

Kitchen - After

Here is the final picture for Saturday.  There were hundreds of nails holding those sister boards in place, so it took me about an hour to pry them all off. We won't be out to Quincy again until later this week or this weekend, so hopefully the pipes don't freeze before we get back out. Thanks for looking at things! We hope everybody had a Merry Christmas - we had a great time at the "old" house in Noblesville.