Bet you didn't know there were mountains in Illinois.....in Centralia, Illinois....specifically...at the Duck.
I have a mountain of plaster...
A mountain of trash... insulation, ceiling tiles, linoleum...., etc.
And, a mountain of slats...along with the toilet..LOL. in the bottom right corner you can just see the cast iron bathtub.
I had 3 1/2 men (one was a 15 year old boy....who worked as hard as the men) working on Monday for 10 hours....they didn't even take a lunch break.
And 3 men on Tuesday for another 10 hours.
There was so much plaster dust showering down from everywhere that a couple times i had to go outside for a bit till it all settled down. Here is my main guy (although you can't see him)...sitting up in the attic on the beams and knocking down the slats and insulation with his feet.
He found 2 beams up there that were cracked and will need to fixed.
Here it is after he was finished....amazing.
I have kept some stuff in hopes of re-using it....interior doors and whatever door and windows frames and baseboards i could get off intact. you see a couple of tables there, too...they were found in thrift stores. all this is sitting in the garage office.don't you just love that orange and green carpet. LOL
There were 12 4x4 fence posts that i wanted pulled out. it rained like crazy monday morning and i figured the fence pulling wasn't going to happen since they were going to use the truck to pull them out. but i didn't want ruts in the yard. so one of the guys just went out and muscled them out of the ground....they were in concrete. he said the rain helped. most of them got pulled up and the remaining 2 or 3 were cut off with a chain saw. now i just need to fill up the holes and i can mow without having to go around them.
Check out what i found under the plaster wall in the entryway. it looks like they had some sort of window there or just something hanging in that little niche. i am going to have some stained glass window made to fit into that space. i envision a long table sitting under there with a couple lamps on it.
When i arrived on Sunday i only had about 10% of the demolition finished. now there is about 90% finished. i am so happy about that. it would have taken me a year to finish all that myself. it's amazing what a few guys can do in a couple days. but they sure earned their pay...they were all filthy by the end of the day. but they were still smiling and laughing...so i guess it was all good. they were all out of work so i contributed a bit to the economy. LOL
One of the guys wanted the metal to sell and i told him to help himself to whatever he wanted. so he filled the back of his truck with the air conditioner out of the window....it was huge and gross. and he pulled the kitchen sink. and took the medicine cabinet out the bathroom, the light fixture, several ceiling fans and the metal boxes that held the fuses. also an old office chair. he is coming back for the bathtub that they pulled out. that much less i have to throw in a dumpster.
I plan on having a dumpster delivered on july 9 and spending a day or 2 filling it up with my mountains. well, i am hoping the GUYS will fill it up...not me myself. LOL
I got a LOT accomplished....along with sore feet. i fell in bed tuesday evening at 7pm and slept for 12 hours. LOL 3 days of demolition was all i could handle. Then once i got home on wednesday and got a shower....i felt almost human again. can hardly wait to go back.
I have a mountain of plaster...
A mountain of trash... insulation, ceiling tiles, linoleum...., etc.
And, a mountain of slats...along with the toilet..LOL. in the bottom right corner you can just see the cast iron bathtub.
I had 3 1/2 men (one was a 15 year old boy....who worked as hard as the men) working on Monday for 10 hours....they didn't even take a lunch break.
And 3 men on Tuesday for another 10 hours.
There was so much plaster dust showering down from everywhere that a couple times i had to go outside for a bit till it all settled down. Here is my main guy (although you can't see him)...sitting up in the attic on the beams and knocking down the slats and insulation with his feet.
He found 2 beams up there that were cracked and will need to fixed.
Here it is after he was finished....amazing.
I have kept some stuff in hopes of re-using it....interior doors and whatever door and windows frames and baseboards i could get off intact. you see a couple of tables there, too...they were found in thrift stores. all this is sitting in the garage office.don't you just love that orange and green carpet. LOL
There were 12 4x4 fence posts that i wanted pulled out. it rained like crazy monday morning and i figured the fence pulling wasn't going to happen since they were going to use the truck to pull them out. but i didn't want ruts in the yard. so one of the guys just went out and muscled them out of the ground....they were in concrete. he said the rain helped. most of them got pulled up and the remaining 2 or 3 were cut off with a chain saw. now i just need to fill up the holes and i can mow without having to go around them.
Check out what i found under the plaster wall in the entryway. it looks like they had some sort of window there or just something hanging in that little niche. i am going to have some stained glass window made to fit into that space. i envision a long table sitting under there with a couple lamps on it.
When i arrived on Sunday i only had about 10% of the demolition finished. now there is about 90% finished. i am so happy about that. it would have taken me a year to finish all that myself. it's amazing what a few guys can do in a couple days. but they sure earned their pay...they were all filthy by the end of the day. but they were still smiling and laughing...so i guess it was all good. they were all out of work so i contributed a bit to the economy. LOL
One of the guys wanted the metal to sell and i told him to help himself to whatever he wanted. so he filled the back of his truck with the air conditioner out of the window....it was huge and gross. and he pulled the kitchen sink. and took the medicine cabinet out the bathroom, the light fixture, several ceiling fans and the metal boxes that held the fuses. also an old office chair. he is coming back for the bathtub that they pulled out. that much less i have to throw in a dumpster.
I plan on having a dumpster delivered on july 9 and spending a day or 2 filling it up with my mountains. well, i am hoping the GUYS will fill it up...not me myself. LOL
I got a LOT accomplished....along with sore feet. i fell in bed tuesday evening at 7pm and slept for 12 hours. LOL 3 days of demolition was all i could handle. Then once i got home on wednesday and got a shower....i felt almost human again. can hardly wait to go back.
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