And the walls came a'tumbling down!

And so the serious work has begun! Last week we got a big step into the reno process - doing a whole lotta smashing, banging and wrecking. As i sit here in my office, there is a fine haze of white dust over all surfaces - boy, am i ever going to need to do a good house cleaning when all this nonsense is done! Anyone up for a cleaning party? I'll even feed you! But seriously, we got a good ways into the process - job list included:
- ripping all the floor tiles out - Dad, my faithful sidekick, had already gotten started on that a little bit when i was gone to B.C. but we really went to town Thursday evening - we started with a hammer and chisel - i'm learning lots about tools and even physics (levers and fulcrums?) Then Dave came along with his ?chipping gun and boy did the dust and floor tiles start flying then. We were wading through mounds of debris - tiles, subfloor, two layers of linoleum that were buried under the tiles! I guess the former owners just kept piling the layers on and the floor subsequently kept getting higher!
- smashing holes in the very thick plaster walls and ripping them down - what dust! What noise! We wore masks as long as we could but after a while, you couldn't breath with and then you couldn't breath without - so it's a difficult choice... I will confess my boogers have never quite been that colour before!
- ripping all the nails outta the floor - there were lots, just when you thought you had them all, you'd turn around and there would be about twenty more... i got pretty good with the hammer - even if i did whack myself a few times but good! Aaah well, a few grumbles and back to work!

Yes, there is a lotta dust in my house - just showing a small sampling!

Dad in the newly shop-vacced and cleaned up kitchen - it looks so much bigger now and i can't wait to see what it's gonna look like with walls and counter and cupboards - fun times ahead! We still have a bit more demo to do - now the interesting part of trying to "fish" all the wires through and rig the place up safely and efficiently comes into play. And the plumbing - oh joy, oh bliss - we need to rip a bit of the ceiling down in the basement as well - creating havoc in the place that i thought was my "retreat". Aah,well, the show must go on! Come on over and have a peek sometime!