Saturday was the spare room, and Sunday was the Kitchen. Chuck was able to come over on Sunday to help wire in the dishwasher and stove. While he was working, John and I took down the kitchen/hallway wall! Found some more interesting structural work...all things now that would NOT be up to code.
John started by tearing up the rest of the old linoleum that covered the hardwood
John moved the bookshelf out of the way...another makeshift/temporary spot.
Moved the white fridge to where a new one will be. John has a stainless steel fridge from before in the basement so for the time being, were are going to switch the white one out and put it downstairs.
Look what we found?!? When John moved the stove away from the wall he saw the fourth/missing stove knob. Wonderful.
And here comes the demo! I took the first couple swings...
These beams look off? Our theory is the Deans found scrap wood and thought, "this will work for a wall!". No thank you.
Bye bye old thermostat!
NOT to code. This was how they grounded the thermostat originally.
John thought that there may be another beam running across the ceiling (like the right side). But...there isn't. This means a "temp wall" is going up to support the roof while John puts in the beam to support the weight.
Looks like this wall used to be...green?
John prepping to go into the crawl space. This plus a face mask, gloves, and two lights. No spider sneak attacks here! He went up to pull the original stove wire into the stairwell to connect to the new stove. Hoping hoping hoping it was long enough...they are expensive!
Once he was down, he fed the wire through the stairs, and it fit! Drilled some holes for the wired to feed through beams, and we were wired in!
More hodge-podge craftsmenship...
Old and new...
And how in timeout. We joke that the neighbors see us tow junk to the dump and get excited...then we pile more out there. Ahh, remodeling :)
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