Sunday today. The main floor tenants were home. I hope I didn’t make too much noise.
I removed the last of the lath boards and old flooring (all remaining five layers) from the kitchen today. I cut the remaining flooring into squares to aid in removal. I set the circular saw to 2mm or so less than its total thickness and carved away. Unfortunately, I gave myself sore sinuses doing it. But it is done.
There was a tin can lid there, stuck in the floor. I wondered what trouble it covered up. Was there a pipe there before? It paralleled the beginning of the sloped roof directly above, so maybe there was previously a partition wall there to cover in a closet area? But that would make that room extremely small. As it turns out, it was just a knot hole.
Inside all the kitchen walls were 8-10 inches thick of dried plaster chunks. I’m sure much of it had fallen during renovations. But, at the bottom of each, was a 3″ thick blob, dried there from over 100 years ago, from when it was plastered. It would have leaked through the lath boards and landed inside the walls.
Me: 1403 3 Ave N Lethbridge AB up 20241110_150854 Allan pulling off kitchen lath boards.mp4
So that is, for now, complete.
에린, my kitchen designer, is on vacation for a week. So, until I get a design back from her, I can’t progress forward. It’s okay though – there are three more rooms to do. But for the kitchen…
Next:
- vacuum up all the dust
- remove any remaining nails from the floor and wall studs
- peel that wallpaper off the ceiling
- remove the gas line
- install new electrical panel in prep for new service
- replace all wiring, wire kitchen to code, get ready for cabinets
…And pick up the garbage that I heaved out the kitchen window.
