Demolition Day Arrives

It was a crunch time last night trying to get everything out of the kitchen, I honestly thought it wouldn't take that long, boy was I wrong. It took some serious team work to get this done and by the end I was major cranky and sore. Mark & Pat really made the difference in getting this done.

While waiting for the demolition to begin, I had to take some last pictures of the kitchen....and now for your viewing enjoyment.....

The big day has finally arrived, our kitchen is being dragged into 21st century, no more disco balls and polyester suits. The 70's kitchen is finally laid to rest (can't you just hear the Bee Gee's singing in there?).

The crew showed up with sledgehammers and attitude. Well, not really, the demolition crew was very nice, polite and friendly. They even put up with me wanting to take pictures. The day started out with a lot of anticipation. About 8:30 the crew showed up with the one dumpster, two demo crew, foreman , electrician. We are now the proud renters of a lovely dumpster and port-a-john.

It took the crew about 40 minutes to tape up the rooms with plastic to limit the amount of dust that spread through the house (of course, Milo our bull managed to make it through every piece of plastic to show he could). It didn't take them long to get rid of the cabinets, I'm guessing the hard part was getting rid of the sheet rock.

Mark managed to work from home most of the day so that allowed for him to give me updates throughout the day. We did have to put up some unused boxes on the walls because of some of the holes that were left, didn't want the needle brothers (what you don't know who the needle brothers are???) wandering out to the storage room. We also had to cover a couple vent hole so they couldn't get down to the crawlspace. While they might think it's the greatest adventure, I would not be so amused.

Tomorrow they start on the laundry room, Pat bless her, got everything out of that room with the exception of the kitty litter so we took care of that tonight. So hopefully by the time we get home from work tomorrow, the shower will be gone and there will be sheet rock in it's place.

Thursday, the electrician arrives to do the wiring. He got a chuckle at some of the existing wiring especially the light switch that controlled the microwave. So tomorrow night we have some work to do in the garage to make his job easier. We have to remove a bunch of boxes and holiday decorations (and no I'm not putting anything up this year) from the shelves so he can run the wiring for the kitchen.