What a day today. We had six Tech students as demolition crew. They all showed up right on-time. After some instruction and goal setting, they went to work.

The crew started right away with the removal of the old appliances and movable objects. Soon thereafter the cabinets (which we deemed unsalvageable, with the exception of the cabinet door handles) were taken down and disposed of. The walls and ceilings were next. The assignment was to remove the plaster and lath. The studs and wall structure should remain.

This is where it got very dusty. All of the crew worked with respirators on and we refreshed the pre-filters once throughout the day.

The crew in the kitchen split up to start working on other rooms. Two remained in the kitchen, two went to the living room and two went to the dining room.

By the end of the day we had a fully gutted kitchen, mostly gutted living room (see separate post about the beehive we encountered 🙂 , and partially gutted dining and guest room.

The debris that was collected throughout this day filled one 30 cubic yard for about 80+% and a second one for about 25%.

All in all a tremendously successful day. Tomorrow two of the six students will return to help us and we also expect some friends and family to show up. This is such an exciting project!

Time for bed.