Once they started removing parts of the walls & throwing them out, we realized that the walls are primarily OLD bricks which we will assume are from 1834 which is when the house was built. Not wanting to waste these or just let them get trashed, we started collecting all the whole bricks we could […]

Well they’re done with knocking holes in our outside wall…at least for a little while. The next step for that wall will be putting in the windows and doors when they finally arrive in a few weeks. Apparently we’re probably going to need another trash container as well. Of course it was too good to […]

Here are a few photos I took a few weeks ago but never put online… This is the view from right inside our front gate.And this one I took from across the street. 🙂

Well it’s been a rather slow moving day. Our workers are doing everything by hand today which means breaking through the wall takes MUCH longer than yesterday but due to the fact that they still have to use a scaffold to get the bricks off, I imagine it was a bit too risky. Perhaps they […]

So the work for the day is done. Definitely a rather early quitting time but apparently the 2nd worker managed to step wrong on his ankle and the thing swelled up like a balloon…so hopefully he is ok and didn’t manage to break it or anything. But they did make some progress at least in […]