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Calderwood Cottage Demo Days – Part 1

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Hey guys!  Julie and I survived three weeks of back breaking work on Calderwood Cottage Demo! The place has changed so much, I have to look at pictures to remember what it looked like when we began.  We originally weren’t going to start flipping until January (after I finished more of my own unfinished projects).  BUT we found this house and we bought it and didn’t want to let it sit for 6 months.  Julie came out this month and we began!Calderwood Cottage Demo Days!

Before we got started with demo, we had to deal with the spiders.  There were millions of them! Most likely they’d all scatter as soon as we started tearing the walls out.  However, we didn’t want them scattering all over US during demo so we made them dead.
Julie and I then went in and tore out some paneling to see what was behind it…and some drywall to see what was happening with an old brick chimney that didn’t extend to the roof. Obviously this 80 year old house has been remodeled at some point (maybe more than once). That chimney is no longer needed for cooking so someone removed part of it.Calderwood Cottage Demo Days!From slithering around in the crawl space, we knew there were some issues with the “foundation”.  The center of the house seemed to be wedged up on stacked bricks , cinder blocks and old wood.
Calderwood Cottage Demo Days!
 Obviously we have our work cut out for us but we have the confidence to tackle whatever we find.

Calderwood Cottage Demo

We hired some guys to help us with the demo for a few days and we made quick work of removing paneling, moulding, drywall, the front porch and the kitchen/living room wall.

Calderwood Cottage Demo Days!
Calderwood Cottage Demo Days!
Calderwood Cottage Demo Days!
Calderwood Cottage Demo Days!
Calderwood Cottage Demo Days!
Pretty good results for one day – if I do say so myself!  We found some interesting things.
First, the kitchen chimney “vent cap” thingy — was a bleach bottle.Calderwood Cottage Demo Days!
Second, we found termite damage.  Calderwood Cottage Demo Days!
Finding termite damage wasn’t surprising.  There was evidence of it on the back porch, under the windows so we expected to find some.
The end of the day one was satisfying because we had done a lot of demo and hadn’t uncovered too much termite damage yet.  That took a few more days to discover…

Read part 2

October 30, 2017 · 5 Comments

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Comments

  1. Katherine says

    October 31, 2017 at 3:43 am

    I loved your sis spraying her butt! The way you two laughed… thanks for sharing and be careful!

    Reply
    • Sandra says

      October 31, 2017 at 7:58 pm

      LOL Thanks Katherine. I only smashed one finger and hit myself in the head twice. Survived so far!

      Reply
  2. LYnne says

    October 31, 2017 at 8:44 am

    Nice work! I look forward to following along with this project. Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
    • Sandra says

      October 31, 2017 at 7:58 pm

      Thanks for following along Lynne!

      Reply
  3. Alison says

    November 7, 2017 at 4:52 pm

    Wow, what a mess! (just read the other two demo posts as well) I’m curious what you found for insulation on the exterior walls? Our house is about the same age, and we just recently discovered fiberboard in the exterior walls. We’ve got the same diagonal sheathing I see in your pics above, and it goes drywall-space-fiberboard-space-sheathing-siding. Did yours have anything like that? LOVE the bleach bottle, by the way. That is such an “old house” thing to find, with people rigging up all kinds of stuff over the years. 🙂

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