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Begun the renovation has
Our kitchen renovation was scheduled to start March 13.
Then I heard that my mother was having surgery March 21, and wanted either me or my brother there because we have medical attorney and would be able to advocate for her with the hospital; my job is more time-and-place-flexible than my brother's, so I figured it made more sense for me to be there, so I agreed with the contractors to delay the job by two weeks.
Then I heard that my brother (who lives closer than I do) had arranged time off to be with my mother after all, so I didn't need to fly to South Carolina. (Then I heard that he was missing his fiancee's multiple-of-ten birthday to be with my mother, and he too was flying rather than driving, and concluded that I should have been the one to fly to South Carolina after all, but by then it was too late. Never mind.)
Stayed home Saturday the 25th waiting for delivery of flooring (which needs to acclimate inside the house for a week before installation, so it's piled in the living room now).
I talked to my boss and arranged to work from home this week and next, stayed up until 2 AM Sunday night moving the last of our stuff out of the kitchen, and spent Monday morning the 27th waiting for the contractors to come and start demolition. By 10:30, I hadn't heard or seen anything of them, so I called and learned that there had been a miscommunication: somebody somewhere thought I had postponed the job indefinitely, and would get back to them with a new date. Fortunately, the contractors weren't irrevocably started on another job, and would be available to come Tuesday the 28th.
Which they did. Here's an early stage in the renovation:
Demolishing a room in an old-ish house (about 100 years) is sorta like an archaeological excavation. Here are four chronological layers of wallpaper (and some plaster, and a little bit of drywall):
and five or six chronological layers of flooring (and some plywood):
The contractors say they're not touching the older layers because they might contain asbestos. As I understand it (from the last renovation to the Math Department offices at Adelphi), asbestos floor tiles are no problem as long as you don't cut or abrade them and liberate the dust into the air; covering them with new flooring should be safe.
Can anybody suggest dates for the various patterns in the wallpaper and flooring?
The contractors took out the cabinets in a niche where the refrigerator will go, so we got to see how the niche was constructed:
No, I don't know why there's a sewing button holding the wall together.
Then I heard that my mother was having surgery March 21, and wanted either me or my brother there because we have medical attorney and would be able to advocate for her with the hospital; my job is more time-and-place-flexible than my brother's, so I figured it made more sense for me to be there, so I agreed with the contractors to delay the job by two weeks.
Then I heard that my brother (who lives closer than I do) had arranged time off to be with my mother after all, so I didn't need to fly to South Carolina. (Then I heard that he was missing his fiancee's multiple-of-ten birthday to be with my mother, and he too was flying rather than driving, and concluded that I should have been the one to fly to South Carolina after all, but by then it was too late. Never mind.)
Stayed home Saturday the 25th waiting for delivery of flooring (which needs to acclimate inside the house for a week before installation, so it's piled in the living room now).
I talked to my boss and arranged to work from home this week and next, stayed up until 2 AM Sunday night moving the last of our stuff out of the kitchen, and spent Monday morning the 27th waiting for the contractors to come and start demolition. By 10:30, I hadn't heard or seen anything of them, so I called and learned that there had been a miscommunication: somebody somewhere thought I had postponed the job indefinitely, and would get back to them with a new date. Fortunately, the contractors weren't irrevocably started on another job, and would be available to come Tuesday the 28th.
Which they did. Here's an early stage in the renovation:
Demolishing a room in an old-ish house (about 100 years) is sorta like an archaeological excavation. Here are four chronological layers of wallpaper (and some plaster, and a little bit of drywall):
and five or six chronological layers of flooring (and some plywood):
The contractors say they're not touching the older layers because they might contain asbestos. As I understand it (from the last renovation to the Math Department offices at Adelphi), asbestos floor tiles are no problem as long as you don't cut or abrade them and liberate the dust into the air; covering them with new flooring should be safe.
Can anybody suggest dates for the various patterns in the wallpaper and flooring?
The contractors took out the cabinets in a niche where the refrigerator will go, so we got to see how the niche was constructed:
No, I don't know why there's a sewing button holding the wall together.
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The part that you pictured, with the different layers, might be a problem over time if you have a floating floor installed. I'm not familiar enough with a fastened wood floor over old substrate enough to know if that would be a problem.
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From bottom to top of the picture, and from newest to oldest, there's plaster, drywall, flowered wallpaper, and light-blue wallpaper. Can't see much of the light-blue (oldest) layer in this picture.