Dirty, dirty, dirty!

After Tuesday's Work Day

Day three is done... and what a mess those boys have made! But I'm not complaining :)

The remnants of the carpet padding and baseboards made their way out of the house yesterday. Strangely enough there was a black substance which looked like tar (but was really a heavy glue) under the carpet pad, which made removal take a bit longer. Home building must have been radically different in the 50's!

That's a layer of tile, then linoleum, and then another layer of tile on top. Huh??!

Finally, the bottom layer of flooring in the kitchen *Phew*

Surprise: Wood under the tile in the den

Today's task was removing the tile from the kitchen and den and creating a false wall to shore up the ceiling in order to start taking down the wall to the kitchen. Follow me? You see, the wall we are intending to remove in order to open up our house is a load-bearing wall. In order to work around this situation, the finished bar will have a support column at the end of it to help keep the ceiling from falling, in addition to some reinforcing beams in the ceiling area over the bar.

The 'false wall' to shore up the ceiling

It's all very confusing to me, but I leave it in the capable hands of Mike and his crew. The thought of the ceiling and roof caving into our living room scares the pants off me, but I try not to think about the 'worst case scenario'!

On a side note, Mike gave us a shopping list of items to pick up ASAP (or as Dave likes to put it.... 'Stand in the shower and tear up $100 bills'). We need to get a new door for the carport (hole gets cut next week- yikes!), 3 new ceiling fans, and tile for the kitchen and den floors. Tonight, just for grins and giggles, I drug Dave to the Home Depot, and guess what! We have 2 of the 3 fans- we walked in, saw the model, and at the same time said, 'That's the one'! Now, to agree on a fan for over the kitchen table....

I can't wait to see what adventures tomorrow holds!