No time to Blog

We've still found some time to work at 414 and progress is being made.  Finding time (or perhaps energy) to blog is another story.   Lots to catch up on.

First, after catching up on cleanup, we attacked the Chimney project.  In one Monday we got it all the way demolished.  Below are the results of that day's work.

 

Through the dining room.

Out of the basement.

Of course, that left us with piles of brick second floor, first floor, and basement.

 Second floor had two piles.   Here is one (basement and main floor were about this size also)

Here is pile two.

The basement bricks went out a basement window, into a bucket, and were thrown into the dump truck we had on loan.   Main floor bricks went out a window, into bins, and were tossed into the truck as well.  Sore arms after that night of work, which ended at 11pm.  The next day we attacked the second floor piles.  Since we had materials stacked below, and the driveway, we couldn't just throw them out, so we devised a Rube Goldberg device.  After some fine tuning, it worked well.

Action shot - brick just about to hit the pile.