The Disappearing Wall

.......oh wait, it didn't disappear, there was a huge pile of rubble and mess left on the floor. Thanks Mr Kilby.

I think Mat got a little jealous that I'd been demolishing stuff in the kitchen. That and an extra stressful week at work. It was decided the walls between the porch and bathroom needed to come down.

I was showing someone the photos of this wall removal afterwards and they asked how long it took? "Hmm, I don't know" Mat said, "maybe half an hour, 40 minutes". So I have included the time stamps on the photos in the captions.

12:24 Double Denim Man is ready, sledge hammer in hand

12:25 The first strike

12:25 Yep, definately a bit missing there

12:29 Less wall, lots more mess

12:29 And a very pleased Mat

2:15 So it took him literally 5 minutes to knock the wall down, and 1 hour and 45 minutes to clear up

2:16 

.......typical this gets done after Mat and Richard did battle to get the bath out of the corridor and 2 doorways that no longer exist!

2:16 Anyone would think he was pleased with himself

On a much sadder note, I am very sorry to announce that the sledge hammer died along with the wall.

The Disappearing Kitchen

Well, its been a while, sorry everyone. My excuse pretty much entirely consists of - we've been too busy working on the house, to write about the house.

So I am, I'm afraid massively behind on the updates. I'll keep putting everything in order, and hopefully before too long catch up with myself so that whats on the posts is actually whats happening - as opposed to now, which is very different indeed.

Anyway! Enough waffling. Get on with catching up with the posts Lana!

The time came for our lovely lime green, orange and brown kitchen to go. I think the photos pretty much speak for themselves, however until this point I must admit I had been deceived into thinking there hadn't been too much damp in the house. I saw behind the kitchen units and was educated.

This one's from way back on the day we got the keys!

Minus some units.....

.....and a rather mouldy looking wall behind....

.....and after a couple of experimental knocks with a hammer......hmm!

So I took away the rest of the units. And all the plaster.