Demo - Check, Rough Framing - Check, Electrical / Network - In Progress

What can I say? I'm bad at uploading pictures. We finished up the demo and spent a good few days cleaning up.

Here's a laundry list of things we've done in the past two months, NOT chronological order:

- The dump truck has now been filled - three times.

- Rough framing is done.

- Electrical wires are just about done being pulled.

- Kitchen layout is marked on the ground.

- Light fixture locations have all been marked.

- Old windows have been removed (most of them).

- New windows have been ordered (coming soon).

- A special shout out to Dave, helping us bring the house into the 21st century with CAT6 and Coax cables pulled.

- The garage walls, driveway, walkway and sidewalk have all been pressure washed.

- Garage had exposed metal ties that needed to be cut with a grinder.

- Cindy went to town painting on a sealant in the garage that will hopefully help the bare concrete walls fare a little better.

- Brick fireplace has been resurfaced.

- New kitchen / dining room flooring has been picked.

- A special shout out to Jack for helping us install ties that tie our walls to the roof.

- Dug new drainage trench and laid new pipe in backyard patio area; had to lug hundreds of pounds of concrete and drainage gravel up to the backyard. Shout out to Jack and Vince for saving my back, literally (Cindy adds - And bank account).

Rough framing in progress

More rough framing in progress

The last piece of demo work - garage!

Jack using a palm nailer to install ties

Jack's handy work!

Completed living / dining room rough framing

No more kitchen window!

Rough framing for kitchen french doors!

Corner window in master bedroom removed and new post installed for new windows.

Interior view of master bedroom corner window; before post.

New window in master bedroom! Scene of new window seat.

View of new master bedroom window; as seen from backyard concrete slab.

Running Cat6 / Coax cables to network the house; Gigabit ethernet network here we come.

Network / Phone / Mail center

Dave grinding.

Jason grinding.

Ties cut, Cindy going to town painting on the gray sealant.

After four hours - almost done!

New fireplace!

Demo Day ... what day is it? [Remodel day 23]

I've stopped counting the days since we've been hitting the house in a few hour chunks. Before heading down to L.A. for Christmas, we had more Chevron friends come out. Below is Amar up on a box putting the finishing touches on our master bedroom.

In the New Year, we were back at it hitting the kitchen / dining room with a vengeance. We took down the ceiling and will begin working on tearing up the floor before the week's out!

Shout out to Amar. It looks like he has a patch over his eye, but that's just a reflection... I promise!

The last of the ceiling down!!

Demo Day 6

Sunday brought with it a wonderful day at church and a wonderful afternoon full of demolition work! I would like to call this day; Joshua the kitchen destroyer day. You'll get to meet Joshua later. I'd just like to say, he took apart about 95% of the entire kitchen ALL BY HIMSELF. The man is a beast and we praise God for him!

Shout outs also go to Dave who brought his two boys over to wreck a few walls and did some damage of his own, Jason Lau who came back for round two and Mike Sohn! All in all, a good day.

Matty killing the wall with a thousand holes.

John getting his swing on.

Mike Sohn coming over to lend us some of his expertise. He rebuilt his own house from the foundation up. The man knows his stuff!!

Aforementioned Joshua. This is after he ripped down the upper cabinets.

Kitchen post-Joshua. Everything is gone!!!

Demo Day 5

Saturday morning bright and early we headed up to the house and spent another five hours tearing it apart. Today, special shout outs go to Joseph and Gordon. You guys are the best!

The second bedroom that Vince started on Friday night finished off by Joseph this morning!

Gordon dressed and ready for action

The master bedroom post-Gordon. At one point he was ripping out drywall with his bare hands. I'm serious.

Some people may be wondering where all the drywall goes. Well... here it is.

Another view. It may not look like it, but that truck is big.. and it's all full!!

Demo Day 4

On Friday, more demo. This time, we had help! Special shout outs to Audrey, Nick, Jason Lau and Vince!!

Nick hard at work.

Closet pre-Audrey and Nick.

Closet post-Audrey and Nick. Whoo hoo!

Room, post-Nick. That's Jason Lau in the picture.

Sporting the Chevron nomex look. Woot woot.

From left to right (Audrey, Cindy, Nick, Vince)

Vince in action. Look at those guns!

Cindy posing for the camera.

Audrey posing for the camera. Again, check out that torn down wall!

Audrey and her battle scars. You can see the blister at the base of her index finger.

Demo Day 3

On Thursday night, I went back to the house to finish demoing the living room and started on the hallway. Check it out:

Demo Day 2

More wrecking today. Damage after 2 hours. You can see Cindy hard at work!