The Little Back Room Disappears

The work has been proceeding apace all this week.  A lot of work was done on the new addition, and then they went after the little back room.  They removed all the plaster from the ceiling, and all four walls so that they could see the condition of the studs in the wall to know if any of them had to be replaced.

There was some evidence of termite damage that could be seen from the outside.  Once all the plaster was removed, the amount of damage was astounding!  When we bought the house, the inspectors said that there had been termite damage, and the ground around the house and the crawl space were treated to prevent any return of the insects.  But we had no idea that there was all this hidden damage.  Is this unbelievable or what?

So when they got all done, they decided to remove ALL of the walls and the floor of our little back room!  This is actually good news, because the bathroom will be located where the original back room was located and now everything will be brand new construction.  You wouldn't believe what a kluge the floor of the back room was - over the years there were apparently three different configurations of stoops before the back room was added!

So this is amazing to see - the only thing left of the little back room are three courses of roof rafters, seen here covered with a tarp.  Everything else is gone, and it is fun to see brand new floor joists.  Whew!  That was a lot of work.  Be sure and click on each photograph to see more detail.