Goodbye Walls

Ok, now I got some sleep. Set your wayback machine to yesterday.

The wall between the kitchen and the living room needed to go. We liked the idea of a nice open floor plan. And, as promised, the closet in the dining room was going to go because Jen did not like it. That was fun, because it showed the first suprise. Under the closet is an access area for the radiant heat plumbing for the dining room. The entire foot print of the closet is a hole about a foot deep, all in concrete (of course). There are valves and pipes, this is not something we can cover permanently. So we decided that we will need to put the hutch there. Once we got a hutch. Until then, hole.

Demo work went smoothly. The false ceiling and the wall were added on, and therefore they were easy to remove without disturbing the rest of the house. The previous owner kept ALL of their plans, so I looked them over and was able to safely determine the wall we were removing was not load bearing.

We went to get the header beam at Home Depot. All of their 4x6 beams were warped, so we went to Dunn Lumber and found a bevvy of straight beams.

This beam was actually the first peice of wood I bought for the house remodel. $20. The 2x4's I used to support the beam I already had in my shop.

It is still a very dusty mess, but we are getting closer. A lot of very nasty wiring came out, and before I drywall, I will need to get an electrician in to hook things back up to code.