Removing
the West side additions
(click
on thumbnail to enlarge)
A weakened wall collapsed against the
kitchen and bath addition the day escrow closed
(see "grading and foundations")
The motivation
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Collapsed wall (1)
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Collapsed wall (2)
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The addition
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The bathroom was only 3 feet from a 10 foot wall
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Addition in wall cocoon
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The WWII kitchen and bath were charming
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Early dishwasher
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More WWII kitchen
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scary wiring
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The addition roof ran off the original roof + some rear extensions
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The kitchen removal
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Removing roofs
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Roof gone
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Structure revealed
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Roof off
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Litchen North wall
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Looking out kitchen to back
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Kitchen ceiling off
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Old siding revealed
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Old house side
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Kitchen walls off
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The bathroom
removal
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Bathroom had some drop siding
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kitchen gone, bathroom left
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Drpped the wall and missed the water pipe (1)...
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just missed (2)
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Just missed (3)
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Dropped walls (1)
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Dropped walls (2)
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Proud
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There screw-ups in
one day (Jeanette obliged with photos)
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Removed the roof jack, causing the clay pipe to fall through the roof, crushing the heater and...
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breaking a gas pipe to the water heater (big gas leak)
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cut the wire to the satellite dish, then reclamped it through the ladder legs
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Broke the glass I was trying to salvage with the end of a beam
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Here it is without
the addition
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West side yard
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Sleeping porch
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