second addition...project seek and destroy

We are defiantly learning as we go about home renovation an restoration. Even though it feels scary to tear apart your new house, we are getting to the bottom of all of our problems and unfortunately finding new ones, lucky us. So here are some new pics of literally the destruction and demolition phase. We must thank all the helpers that we have had!! Especially Rhiannon, Amanda(whom both sacrificed days of there vacation for us!) Dustin, Brian and Casey.It's messy, it's dirty, it's dusty, it's got dead surprises and it's all ours!!!

kitchen-so far we have removed the pergo, vinyl tiles, 3 different kinds of linoleum, paper and what i think was a mixture of mud and glue, all of this was on top of the wood floor. also note the lovely tile counter top is gone!!

all plaster and lath walls, its amazing how much garbage plaster creates!

downstairs dry wall removal

the downstairs bedroom, bye bye black mold!

watch the garbage pile grow with us! its very small here

one of our first steps, re-wire the replace, new panel looks so much better than this mess

standing in the kitchen looking into the living room. miss Amanda and I were on project red removal , looks better already!!

here's a hidden treasure! a giant pipe, it actually heads straight up that column to the left??? what is it for, hoping we can remove it because I want to move the sink to open up the kitchen.

basement dry wall removal

standing in the living room looking into the kitchen

front door, we are hoping to put a closet in here and extend the entry to the end of the porch

removal of the third entrance into our bedroom from the kitchen, right next to the stove?? really you need options of how to leave your bedroom, right? this will now be a more useful wall in the kitchen and there will be one wall in our room that doesn't have a window or a door

mark amidst nob and tube, I'm salvaging the porcelain pieces and using them for drawer pulls, they say 1 jiffy on them, love it

getting bigger

weeds growing into the walls? and why would you cover up a huge window...really i hate daylight in the basement, or maybe it was to cover the drug operation

i didn't pull this out of the ocean, it was in a cupboard in the basement, looks really safe doesn't it??

this is just a sample of the poop, Mark says we could have filled a large trash barrel with rat poop, yup that's right RAT POOP! So we are working with a rodent control company, so far they have blocked entries, removed birds from our exterior walls and bee's! yay

trash pile taller than a grown man!

this is one of the 2 dead birds found which I am very scared of, thanks to my Grandpa and Uncle Mike chasing me with birds as a child. funny joke guys, funny joke!

and dead surprise #3, this little guy fell on top of Dustin along with hundreds of turds on his birthday!!! what a trooper! well that's all for today! sorry about leaving y'all on a nasty dead rat note but this is our new life!