Work Day 8 - RG Project

I only had three hours to for work today so I had to make the most of it. I had a 2 o'clock doctors appointment. The good news it he only want to see me only a month. Ether I am doing very good or need to change my mouth wash. :-P

Anyway we got there at 9am and Jim went to put together the wheel barrow. We didn't want him to be breathing the dust. Nick and I, my youngest nephew, took off the rest of the plaster on the walls. There some that we couldn't safely get to, around the stairs to the basement, or really stuck on.

  West wall

North wall, or back & stage

East wall

We took off the last of the baseboard & woodwork around the windows. All of the plaster has been shoveled into the basement. Swept the floor and brought home some doors, scrap and heating pipes. I also pulled a few nails.

We got all that done with time to spare. It kind of makes up for yesterday. And it was nice to has two wheel barrows, made the job go faster.

Tomorrow we start on the ceiling. We are going into the attic with a pick and drop it, like an anchor. To try to break the plaster loose without knocking the lathe down at the same time. We think it will be easier to clean up that way. But not sure how well this will work. We also thought we could knock off the plaster that squeezed between the lathe. With it gone, there isn't much holding the plaster to the lathe.

Tomorrow being Wednesday I have to go to the museum, so I won't start on the project until about 2pm. Once the ceiling is completely down and cleaned up, we start on the roof. Wish us luck. :-)

BTW does anyone know how to make this column wider? Or put pic's side by side? I could do it MS FrontPage but don't know how I would upload it to this sight. I would really like to change the format of the other pages too. Any help would be appreciated.