4/25The design is pretty much done! Finally. I just have to lay out the master bath and make a few adjustments to the kitchen and then its all just dimensioning and things that are out of my control. It feels nice to know that it’ll finally be in for permits here in another week or so. I’m crossing my fingers at this point.

4/18/05
I got another chunk of the wall plaster off and cleaned up. I decided that in this waiting period (waiting on permits) I’ll just take the time to salvage all I can and do everything I can without the demo permit. Which basically means, I cant do anything to the structure of the house. But I can tear out all of the inside stuff, like the hardwoods, etc… and possibly tear off the siding and roof. I doubt there is much in the way of dimensional lumber worth saving except for the roof and floor joists and the truss lumber. The interior walls would take too much work to salvage just a few 2x4’s. I’ll take the time to get what I can, but when the permit comes, the rest will have to just be torn down as quickly as possible. -kk

4/8
Spent a couple of hours over there last night, waiting for some people to come and look at some of the stuff I'm trying to give away. The water heater, the furnace, fridge, siding, range, etc... One guy came for the furnace, but it was too big. If you want any of this stuff, email me and I'll tell you more.
I got the lath and plaster out of the rest of the one bedroom and one wall of the kitchen. I think if I had a couple of guys with hammers, we could have the place gutted in an evening. It comes off pretty easy.
I'll take a few pictures and upload them.
-kk