Work Day 9 - RG Project

We have been looking forward to taking the ceiling down. We thought it through and decided that I could crawl through the access hole and try to scrap off the plaster squeeze through and then take a pick and pound down and knock the plaster loose and then go back after the plaster was cleaned up and take the lathe down.

The access hole is too small for ladder and me, duh. The scrapping the plaster squeeze through didn't work ether. So I took a step ladder to the middle of the room and started to pound with a hammer. It didn't take too long and plaster was falling. I made a hole large enough for the a ladder and I climbed up between the next rafter. It was much safer than the other way would have been.

Once I was up there, I could stand up on the joists and pound the pick like and anchor falls. Its wide head made it perfect and I made quick work of the ceiling. It was too tight to get next to the walls so there is a 6 or 8 feet strip I couldn't access.

It wasn't that bad to clean up and had it done in less that three hours.

We are getting scaffolding in the next day or so and will finish the ceiling off. Then it is a matter of pealing the aluminum roofing off and removing the Douglas Fir that is under it. After which we will take apart the rafters. Once the roof framing is gone we get to use air chisels to separate blocks. The fun continues.