I got to go to the dump today, twice! Who doesn’t love going to the dump! Its not really a dump but a waste transfer station. Still, there is always cool stuff to see at the dump. A place with a lot of 40 yard bins where you drive up and get weighed. You then tell them what you have and they tell you what bin to dump it in. I had to stop myself from jumping into a bin to pull an old doorknob set from an old door. Its a weakness I have, old door hardware. It wasn’t that impressive a set so I decided discresion was the better part of valor and let it go to the landfill. There was also an old OmniBot in the electronics bin. I always wanted one of those. Sigh…
I took most of the material from the two walls I removed yesterday. The only stuff I didn’t take were the studs that I left up yesterday.One of the walls used to be an exterior wall and carried some load but over the years and many renovations, new joists have been added and most of the studs cut so they were not doing much anyway. I decided to secure what was left of the studs to the joist with joist hangers so at least they have something to attach to. Originaly the studs were actualy tennoned into the beam in the basement. Pretty cool. I will take some pictures tomorrow.
I also got half of the first layer of floor up today as well. I finaly got a good look at the hardwood I will have to rip up soon. Its hard to tell what it is but for some reason I think its Elm. I am hopping beyond hope to save the floor and use it somewhere else in the house. The reason I have to rip it up is that the kitchen floor is about an inch and a half to two inches higher than the rest of the now “great room”. Since we plan to run one type of floor all the way through I have to take it down to the sub floor to start fresh.
Tomorrow I will finish removing the old studs and keep taking up the old floor.
Nite.
