The room has been cleared.
The excavation has revealed cave paintings from a lost tribe [not lost actually, the Kubics - previous owners - are in The Netherlands, last we heard].
Defacing this priceless archaeological find are a quick layout of the cabinet plans and the beginning of the new tribal design [notations such as "QUAD", photo right].
Too bad.
Probing the defenses
A wrecking bar has been loose in the cave. The signs are unmistakable. If the beast isn't captured, who knows how many room may suffer. The earlier "QUAD" writings have been chewed away.
Even before the "wrecking bar" has finished its work, a new tribe has begun decorating the cave.
They use oddly regular containers that stay fixed to the wall. Curious. The containers do not appear to be intended for food - a religious offering, perhaps?
Here we see earlier offerings to the gods of "spark", "damp", and "suck". Also visible is the vestige of a temple to "warm".
In other words, this is the "before" picture; Left to right at floor level:
- You can barely see it but there's a stud with plaster lines at the left edge
- Next to that, is a 1-by to back the lath at the tub corner
- The grayness is the back-side of the tub
- .. yeah, yeah, another stud... but this one has an outlet (hallway night light) and above that, a 2-by-4 block that supports the hot water supply.
- The darkness under the lath is the basement crawl space below.
- Another stud (supporting another 2-by, supporting the cold water supply)
- The central vacuum line
- another plaster aid stud-like thingy
- The legacy furnace register cavity
- The door framing (double studs). At the top of the photo, there's a duplex box installed during the original rewiring, long ago (1990).
- the jam... and now we're into the bathroom (the door is
open). Nice sheet vinyl flooring (if only)
Demolition Day
We're getting somewhere, now, eh? The four merry souls below spent the day removing about 3 yards of plaster and another 3 or so of wood lath. I'm trying to convince the neighbors that this is the latest trend in landscaping, but they aren't going for it.
Left to right: David, Johnny, Bob, and Jeff
After Johnny and Jeff left mid afternoon, Dorothy pitched in.
Thank you, Dorothy!
The flash glinting off the dust particles almost looks like snow, don't you think?
NB: it does not taste like snow.
Demolition done (for the day).
The photo below is our makeshift bathroom. The toilet is usable and the shower is cobbled together with a garden hose and construction plastic. Nothing leaks... much. We use the sink in the kitchen.
