The front of the house
Bricks from the fireplaces on the porch
The kitchen prior to being painted
Sarah hard at work
Dale - 7 months pregnant
A dirty Paul
The front room on the left
The front room on the left prior to demolishing the wall and removing the fireplace
The fireplace after ripping down one side of the wall
The second room on the left prior to the wall be knocked down. Looking through to the sun room.
Paul beginning the destruction
The first section of lining coming down (or up!)
Russell happy in his work. The wall half gone between the front and second rooms. The whole in the ceiling is from the fireplace.
Looking through the other way. Andy hanging out with the other studs.
A religious ceiling
It was much messier than this an hour ealier
ahh the smell of morter dust in the morning
Spick and span before we mess it up again
First crack at gib stopping
The view the other way
And now the carpet is gone thanks to Paul
Floor levelling compound is cool
A star is born
The log burner in the front right room
The fireplace in the front right room
and after Andy had removed the surround
Mark laying into it.
happy in his work
The spectre of a headless man where there was once a fireplace.
The bricks and wall all gone from the front right room. The view to the waiting room soon to be walled off.
Paul with his carpet removing implement of choice.
The wall is lined and the ceiling repaired very nicely by Andy
Here's a log burner
Now it's gone!
The fireplace in the previous room from the other side prior to demolition
Santa?
One of his elves?
Nope, just a very dirty Grant
And here's one we prepared ealier... The fireplace is gone and the view through to the front room.
Lets rip up the floor now!
Another religious ceiling
Wall is now lined and plastered. Ceiling repaired.
Primed and painted, well as far up as Dale could reach.
The waiting room awaiting the carpet coming up
The sunroom
This used to be the bathroom
Now it's a tool storage room!
Ripped up the rotten floor. Cleaned out the shower alcove.
High quality wiring done by the previous owner. That runs across the top of what was the shower!
Awaiting the plumber to move the drain and put in a toilet outflow.
Wall framed up and ready for lining
First layer of lining on. MDF as the equivalent of matchlining (tongue and groove for walls). Another layer of thin MDF will go on top and then some coated hardboard for waterproofing.
This is the toilet/laundry next to the kitchen (and the other tool storage room)
Doreen in the garden
Two idiots on the roof
Grant and Geoff destroying the chimney
Another pile of bricks
The front garden
The north side of the house (thats the sunroom)
The back garden from the north side
The boys after a hard mornings labour
The whole back yard
The front
Wasn't there a roof there?
I could have sworn there was a roof there when we bought the place
Mark in the woodshed hunting for plumbing
Grant doing the same
Fiddler on the roof?
Now I know who's been stealing the roof
I think this bit of wood is a keeper.
The men surveying their work
Whats left holding up that roof?
Nothing now!
Spuds! (Robert)
Cherryl
Rip it down!
Firewood anyone?
thats better
Almost there
A few more hits with this and we'll be done.
Do you think this pipe is important? (Turns out it was)
Started at 9, knocked down by 12 and tidy by 3.
This is tidy right?
Geoff thinks it's tidy.
Chicken anyone?
Headless Chicken (House)
Thats a big roof on a small truck. They got the roof and all four walls on that truck in one load.
And another demoltion is complete.
Can I have a turn?
Wow! where did all that concrete go
Dale telling the drain layer (Dave) what to do
Russell deep in thought (and hard at work)
New sewer line in preparation for the dance studio
All done
And the back yard is bare at last
all ready for the studio to be built (once the council approves it)
