Mr. Toppa, Tear Down This Wall!
Maria left for Prague with the boys last week. She’s teaching a class there this summer. They’ll be there for 7 weeks, and I’ll join them for the last 3 of those weeks. In the meantime, I’ve been busy destroying the house.
In the evenings after work I’ve been dismantling one side of the kitchen, piece by piece. We’re taking down the wall between the kitchen and the dining room, and replacing it with a bar counter. So I’ve been taking down the cabinets, packing away all the dishes, food, and appliances, and removing all the electrical wires from the wall. Today a contractor came to start taking the wall down. He’ll also put in proper structural support to make sure the 2nd floor doesn’t come crashing down on us 
. It doesn’t seem to be a load bearing all, but the house was constructed in an …unusual… way, so he’s playing it safe (the 1st floor ceiling joists are parallel to the wall, but then there’s a wall above it on the 2nd floor, offset by about a foot, and the 2nd floor ceiling joists run in the opposite direction; I’ve never seen anything like that before, and neither has my contractor).
I’ll use the 3 day weekend to do a little demolition of my own – I’m adding a doorway on another side of the kitchen, leading into the living room. With all the changes to the walls, I also need to re-configure most of the electrical wiring in the kitchen.
The kitchen is actually one of two projects I’ve got going. The other is remodeling our sunroom. Pictures of that coming soon.
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July 2nd, 2009 at 3:59 pm
It’s too bad you’re already taken. I could use a husband with your skills.