Finally, we have our permits and are a go ahead. So while we wait for the excavator to schedual us in, we had more demolition to finish. Taking down the lathe and plaster involved Ross climbing into the attic and sledge hammering it from above. It took about a half hour on each side...quick but it produced clouds of dust that billowed out the windows.
This is about a third of the lathe. We spent two twelve hour days burning the stuff. It kinda looks like a beaver dam.
This is the mess inside.
And this is the schoolhouse with everything removed from the main room. The ceiling joists are 30 feet long and 9"x3". The wall studs are all pegged and notched into a 9"x9" beam that sits on a 2' thick rubble foundation wall. They don't build them like this anymore...I'm not quite sure if that is good or bad.
