We own a house.....I think I broke it.

Today was our closing day...wooohoooo finally get away from the idiots living upstairs. You'd think after 6 months of us complaining and almost kicking in their door they'd learn to walk gently or at least go on a diet. So if you head to the Clocktower for some food or a beer, don't tip the bartender.

Luckily for us our new neighbour seems to be great, she doesn't even mind the huge demolition racket we are making. We have promised to quite banging and cutting by 9 in the evening.

I picked the keys up at 4 and was off to the house to start the demolition. Our plan of attack is to start with the master bedroom first. We are ripping out the wall that seperates the bedroom from the hallway to the deck. We are also tearing out an small closet that is shared by the master and the other bedroom just west of the room. Mel decided to not study tonight and take out her stress on some walls.

The walls in the room are a combination of lath and plaster (what a mess) and drywall. As you cans see lots of lath and plaster. There is also a combination of new and old wiring in the wall. I bought a spool of 14-2 wire so I can rewire the place as we go.






You would not believe the amout of dust and garbage the lath and plaster create. Its going to be quite the clean up. Luckily the downstairs demo is all drywall. I gave the downstair walls a quick kick test.

So after the first day in our place I managed to get almost all the demo done in the master bedroom. There is still a small closet by the enterance to demo. After that we will have one heck of a clean-up before starting to dry wall and patch the remaining walls.

Well that's it for now. Tomorrow I start on the living/dining room, we decided this would be best as we are moving in on Friday and want all the major demo to be done so our stuff won't get totally covered in dust. With the bedroom we have it cover off nicely and it seems to be containing the dust.