Goodbye Tiles, Hello Particleboard

Tile Demolition, Day One.

Josh came over Friday night... little did he know what was in store. I think we all got a little excited about the prospect of assembling the bar stools Jonathan found and that took us to Kitchen Demo for Saturday morning.

Here, we see Josh, smiling for the camera. He did a great job leading the demolition effort. During this time, I was hanging from the ceiling (okay, not really hanging) patching the aforementioned hole in the dry wall. No photo as yet, but all things considered, I did a good job! Proof to come.

We did think of a few brainy things, like cover the appliances with towels and linens (don't worry, we'll wash them before we have guests again) and moving the new stove out of the way of flying porcelain.

At left is yours truly, posing (so as not to send debris flying toward the camera), but pretty much, that's what demo looked like last Saturday. It was remarkably slow going, as the tiles are set into what I'm calling concrete (it seems much thicker and stronger than joint compound) that had a layer of chicken wire in it for strength .

As you can see, we started trying to remove tile and then jack up the concrete. It was certainly slow going!

Later, Jonathan took a front row seat in the demo process, and he and Josh were a great team. I retired upstairs to do s'more dry wall repairs.