Bob and I have managed to accomplish everything we planned to do at the October 17-20 work bee, so instead we will be gutting the house with the help of a small crew of friends, family and neighbors.
Everything is torn out of the house — including the kitchen sink. The doors are off their hinges and labeled. The trim is off the windows and doors, except the inside window frames that can wait until after gutting. The baseboards are off. Wall coverings are mostly removed. Ceiling tiles and furring strips are down.
Brenda took care of the girls this afternoon while Bob and I did some more prep work for the gutting and she offered to do it again tomorrow. We'll spend the time burning some more rubbish as we did today and clearing out the house for the big gut. We have some nails to pull out of the plaster down at the baseboard area, but other than that we should be ready. We even have a bag full of dust masks and a bucket full of pry bars and claw hammers ready to go.
We're feeling good about this! It's not exactly fun work — as I told Bob today while hovering over the baseboards on my knees in a pile of dust and nails — but it's satisfying to get so much accomplished.
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