Apparently, we can't get enough deconstruction. We'd really thought that was behind us. Are we addicts? The builders called us this afternoon to inform us that it would be far easier to solve some kitchen and bathroom plumbing, electrical and insulation problems by tearing down to the studs instead of fussing with fish tapes and jigsaws on and behind the existing finished surfaces.
The wooden ceiling boards over the kitchen came down first, which revealed ceiling support beams at 34" intervals. Compare to modern wall studs at 16" or ceiling joists at 12". This means that there's not a whole lot of support for the ceiling, especially if we're going to have roofers and painters up there in a couple of months. Green Hammer is going to add retrofitted interleaved supports so that we've got them every 17" or so.
This is a big mess, but in the long run it's going to save us a lot of headache and money because it'll make the systems jobs a lot easier. After this, there's not much left to deconstruct except for the side access basement door (in the plan, but not done yet) and the garage (not in the plan, but coming summer of '08 or '09).
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