Renovation Chaos: Bye-bye asbestos, hello friend

I still seem to be writing these posts for the previous weekend after we start the current weekend's projects. This week is no exception, but I'll keep what we're working on a secret for now.

We got the asbestos pulled out during the week, so first order of business was assessing the damage. We have subfloors in the kitchen and dining room (well, technically, subfloor in the kitchen and beams in the dining room. We'll have to add a new subfloor at some point.

subfloor and beams in dining room (beams only was in the section that was added on after the original house was built)

giant holes where there were knots in the board...they are holes directly into the raised foundation crawl space. We'll have to get those covered soon.

We're also short one ceiling in the living room now as well. We were worried about what that would result in but we were actually happy it happened, because it revealed that the swamp cooler pipe from the art room ceiling was just one of a network of tubes that are still in the attic, even though they are not working or connected to anything.

the duct in the lower left corner is connected to the tubes waaaaaay in the back that you can just barely make out

we found that our range hood is nicely venting out to the back of the house, and not into the attic as we feared.

swamp cooler tubes

We had a visitor last weekend: Scott! So naturally, we put him to work. The guys started with removing the panelling in the living room, then proceeded to tackle taping off the computer room, pulling up carpet upstairs, and taking down all the kitchen cabinet doors

we're ready to tackle the panelling

behind the panelling? More panelling!

lots of nails

luckily, behind panelling number 2 was drywall.

removing lots of nails. and yes, i've been told that i'm hyper with the fancy mask, but i like my lungs.

lots of nails in the wall, and we discovered the panelling was all there to cover up a weird hole that was flush with the drywall.

tackling the carpet

we left the padding as a drop cloth for painting, but we will be removing that this weekend, since we won't have the drywall repaired before we need to move in.

yay! the hardwood floors are in decent shape (minus any holes from tacks, naturally.)

cabinets, sans doors

While they were tearing down items, I was still working on the kitchen cabinets, continuing to plow through the shelf lining (which i officially hate now). After that, I moved to putting up the first coat of paint in the computer room.

found this momento in the bottom corner of the pantry cabinet...vanilla butternut cookies anyone?

while I don't like cabinet lining, i thought the design of the instructions on the back was pretty fun! from another part of the instructions: "IT COVERS! IT DECORATES! IT PROTECTS!"

the paint color in the computer room was really hard to photograph. Its almost the same shade as the current paint, but it's a gray instead of a peachy color.