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Big mess

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

Kitchen08

This was the last of the plaster to come out of the kitchen.  While gutting a room is fun for the first 5 or 10 minutes, it always turns into a horrible, time-consuming project.  What made this particularly bad was the 40 year old blown-in insulation sitting above the kitchen ceiling.  Now that I have been through this a few times, I now realize that the best thing to do is to just leave the ceiling and insulation alone and to go over the whole thing with drywall.  Losing 1/2″ of height is a fair trade for less mess and not having to reinsulate…

Cabinets removed

Tuesday, July 20th, 2004

Kitchen07 Kitchen without the cabinets and tile.  The sink is still attached in this picture, because rusty plumbing connections made us dubious about disconnecting anything.  In the end, just about all the plumbing in the basement had to be torn apart to be able to a point where we could actually find a pipe that didn’t disintegrate when we tried to disconnect it.  The galvanized pipes just don’t hold up over time!