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The House: Demo

10 January 2011

Demolition
After closing on the house we had about a two week window until we had to be out of the condo, which turned out to be a godsend. The previous owners loved ugly wallpaper (or maybe that was just their way of disguising the problem) and upon removing some it turned out that the plaster walls were cracked everywhere. If it were me I probably would have just spackled the crap out of them but for whatever reason my boyfriend decided they all had to come down. This created a ton of dust and the need for two dumpsters in order to dispose of around 500 lbs of plaster. I guess in the end it turned out to be a good thing, a couple of walls had water damage and a dining room and kitchen window were about ready to fall out. This of course turned into replacing all of the windows, thank goodness for a boyfriend who knows how to do pretty much anything and the $8k tax credit.

Demolition

3 comments:

  1. I'm sure you'll be glad that you decided to tear them all down and replace everything, but what a LOT of work! Hope you have a good weekend...

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  2. This is a ton of work! I know from personal experience how much crap comes off those old lathe and plaster walls...

    Good luck! You will be so happy to be able to start fresh with nice clean walls!

    And by the way! Seriously thank you for nominating me. I was secretly hoping someone would, but I feel like such a blog nerd I never thought anybody would! So thank you SO much it really made my entire weekend- heck I am still happy about it!

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