Little House Demolition Complete

Just another "Weekend Project" around the Simoni house. 

We often laugh about the fact that our "weekend projects" are often much larger than the average project.  Moving boulders to create a retaining wall, creating a beach on the riverfront, moving an entire garden in one day, and taking down a house.  No biggie ;)  After all the work this weekend, I can say we are pretty sore, tired, and bruised up . Demoing can be fun when you picture taking a big swing at a wall gripping onto a sledge hammer...whats not as fun is picking up all of the pieces of the house you just knocked to the ground.  IT IS A TON OF WORK!   

We decided to deconstruct the house a bit before just knocking it all down to the ground.  Brandon used a pitchfork to rip off the shingles, and I hauled them to the dumpster. Then Brandon started cutting out pieces of the roof until we had most of the roof off.  

 

Roof & Attic are gone.  Now onto the walls!

 

Getting close to the end of our first day of demo.  I don't think we took many pictures after this as it was getting cold and we were burnt out.  But we did have a bonfire which made for an awesome pic at the end of the night.  

-Day 1 of  Demolition -

                                    

  We tried to take down walls as whole as we could, as we found it makes clean up a bit more efficient to pick up large pieces of drywall as opposed to lots of little pieces of drywall and having to sweep them up. And although we really tried to keep the kids and dog away from the job-site, Landon was really enjoying demoing and using his hammer to smash up the walls.  Following in our footsteps.   

One thing we always seem to do is have fun together!

Last picture of the nursery we first brought Landon home to.  It was a beautiful nursery that was so special to us,  and was hand painted. It went on to be the kids shared room once Skylar was born.

 Brandon pulling down the wall

It got dark quickly and the pictures we did take were too dark at this point.  The little light we did have was from cell phones to help get the last of the wall down.  We had such a small area left and we didn't feel it necessary to bring out the big lights.

-Day 2 of Demolition-

This hidden gem was on the kids room window sill.  Apparently this was not the first time this room was shared.  Where ever you are Megan and Kayla we'd love to share this picture with you!  Taken in 1996.

There's bound to be an accident at every job-site.  Just glad it was the mac 'n' cheese at ours. 

FINALLY, the morning after pictures!  

GONE!

Next steps, clean up the remainder of the house then rip up the floorboards as best we can (for a future project), then start filling the crawl space with clean fill to prep for concrete work in the coming weeks.

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