Not saying life driven by garbage night - Tuesday last: two front room plaster/lath walls poor enough induce some previous tenant sheet rock over 'em. Sheet rock has no Swett Lodge reuse; dump consign. Rip out cat piss stench sheet rock, twelve shopping bags refuse dice, cram; rescue one large piece replace funky stove heat shield. Late breakfast, decide gut entire front room: break cement plaster free; bucket load; haul behind garage; pry lath off, later dice stack. Finish some time 'round dark, clean system's dust yuck - extended purge process. Enjoy evening meal, couple beers. Miraculously some wee hour twelve neatly packaged/stacked by garage sacks sheet rock refuse disappear. Not saying .... gotta love elves. Ducks too!
Lungs need fresh air work break: ventilate garage, finish ventilate house back burner materials on hand projects. Position/climb ladder, remove couple top back garage siding pieces splinter by splinter; cut screen, old front screen door wire mesh; slip under pried loose trim pieces; position; single (center, shiny) nail; hammer snug trim: kind a cute adequate vent - small leak, etc. moisture above ceiling some where to go now.
Ladder climb atop carport, give garage front same treatment though rip siding piece maintain same size as back vent. Inexpensive, functional, attractive architectural detail.
Swett Lodge front well ventilated beneath porch roof,
back requires similar treatment. Break out few siding courses, pry trim loose, cut plastic lattice - used wood lattice in front - lath strip/brads fasten two triangle pieces, nail screen over opening, lath combo over screen, replace/snug trim: bit o' paint'll make everything dandy.
How best remove ugly, dirty plaster/lath debate boils; remove, denail Swett Lodge east side interior trim; possible future use stack.
Saturday am decide: gut entire east side at once, Duck evening game looms. Demolition garb - coverall, gloves, hat - three foot 4x4, three foot crow bar bludgeon down all east side plaster/lath. What mess! Knee deep cement chunks, nail porcupined lath, demolished bedroom wall 2x4s in all but small front room section intimidates/inspires frenzied action least 'til loo path's clear.
Front bedroom circle saw dice lath, stack; shovel cement load bucket, horse behind garage, dump; repeat. Opened building clues help orient inside Swett Lodge: middle bedroom next to bath. Pictured is mess remains after nine/so hours Saturday, three/four more Sunday. Four/five more ought to clean it up: rebuild fun begins.
Twelve bucket loads Saturday plus Tuesday's front room batch makes nice carport pile: expect dozen more east side buckets.
Tease countless small stacks lath from mess, front room haul, dice, stack.
Manage clean hall, bath plaster/lath knee deep mess by 7:30 game time, radio listen, clean up, enjoy beer; half time local tavern cycle join Spud 'n Kate for Ducks over Huskies - quite a day!
Open Swett Lodge east side breeze into west side living area, plaster/lath removed both sides kitchen/bath wall prompts garage wall fabric salvage, hang.
Unearth larger (than lath) demo lumber, denail, middle bedroom window 'lumberyard' export,
sort, stack. Dice up, front room corner stack bunch more lath: these photos show it at this stage of the game. Stand by east side front window look north toward hall door. Dismantled bath sink behind ex closet behind tool bucket next to circle saw, fabric loosely covers door in plaster/lath free hall left.
Click right.
Again.
Once more, face front east corner 's lath/firewood pile.
Down hall toward bath - remember 'twas literally knee deep -
stop beside west side door. Left: throne.
Click right.
Couple clicks past middle bedroom knee deep mess, more knee deep mess before,
and after clean up efforts - big diff eh?
Click right.
Again.
Diffinitive view: from the throne.
Some say grass's greener other side - can't tell by Swett Lodge: back yard thickens nicely. And while this week's work's nastiest grittiest, care not dwell on it any longer than absolutely necessary - marathon effort reasoning; once done it's done, way made for new, and as Kate says 'what else would I be doing'....
God bless. Peace.
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