From the floor up

By the time you see this, much more will be ripped out.

I've traded stripping wallpaper for pulling up the flooring (linoleum tile on backer board over the hardwood).
Oy vey my aching back.  And legs. 

And hands.  I can't grip the handle on the front door when I come back to the apartment.  Had I known about this flooring removal issue, I'd have been working one of these for the past few months:

We're cooking with gas now.

The electrician started on Tuesday.  Instead of having battery mounted smoke detectors, he's putting in lines to put in wired detectors.  He's had good success snaking wiring above the plaster ceiling in the living/dining room.

And we learned today that there's no asbestos in any of the building materials.  WOO HOO. 
All that linoleum will be up and out by this time next week (fingers crossed).  We can then get someone in to refinish the floors.

We also got a guy to the house this morning to cart away all the carpet, padding and paneling we pulled.

It's been a really good day and it's only 10:30am.  :-D

Dropped the dropped ceiling

We'd pulled the painted, wallpapered (it's a theme) paneling in the vestibule.  Vestibule, a word our plumber said his mother preferred to 'foyer', with his tone inferring to use 'vestibule' is putting on airs.

Plumbing stack behind Greg's head

Anyway, we found the spot where the stack continues up from the basement to the bathroom on the second floor.  We also discovered the spot where a transom used to be featured over the front door.  We suspected one would be there since the house next door has one.  Also found that the vestibule had been enlarged at some point, sacrificing some of the plaster crown molding from the hallway.

Almost want to move the wall to recover it.  Almost.

The ceiling will go back up after plumbing and electric are complete.  Can't decide if we should put a ceiling fixture back up or do sconces on each side of the door.

The Canada is spreading.

Stealthy infiltration documented.

A belated Happy Canada Day to all !

I'm a Buffalo Sponge

Which candy are you ?

NPR Quiz: Which Americandy are you?

Walls

Since I can't pry up the ugly tiles in the downstairs rooms, I'm back to stripping wallpaper upstairs.  The paper in the master bedroom was a newish vinyl paper.  The top stripped off leaving the backing behind.  I got the backing off near the door and light switch with DIF and a scraper.   I thought I was down to plaster that was painted a minty green.  Upon closer inspection, it appears that that minty paint is on top of more wallpaper.
:-(

I tried scoring the painted paper and scraping at it but only got a tiny bit off.  Greg's encouraged me to just get the backing from the first layer off for now.   It's like to resist scratching an itch.

Fun.

When we discuss the bathroom demo or steps we need to take to complete the any of the house's renovation, Greg will say "fun, fun, fun".

And to that I reply: