Living Room Demo (as in Demolish)

At about 9AM this morning, a ServiceMaster crew showed up to finish demoing the small wall area below the big window, to fully demolish the ceiling, and to remove the carpet/pad and the 3/4" particle board underlayment between the pad and the sheeting over the floor joists. Similar work related to the carpet and floor will be done in the dining room soon. I guess the pictures here will mostly speak for themselves.


Demolishing plaster ceilings or walls is a much dustier job than sheetrock (drywall). Note the "powdered" worker here.


The ceiling is about half done here.


Big chunks of drywall-backed plaster could be carried out.


Then the particle board was removed.




You may be able to see here how wet the plywood sheeting still is.


All done, except for some additional drying. We hope construction can start soon, although the dining room floor needs to be cleared first.