Kitchen Demo Starts

We haven't completely finished the girls bedrooms, but the new cabinets for the kitchen will arrive in a couple of weeks and I need to rip out the entire kitchen and patch it up before they get here. Father-in-law is here to help. We have a brick wall lining one of the cabinets that we need to knock out.

If you don't remember, above this is the original kitchen.
The wood is nice but it's very old. It took a lot of work finagling this stuff out because it was obviously custom built with the house.

But with some patience, we were able to get 30% of it removed in a few hours. We want to try and save all of these cabinets so that they can be used by someone else. We hate sending things to the dump especially when the items are so nice. This is really good wood.

We thought that, perhaps, the brick wall was a facade and that it would be easy to tap out. We were wrong. It was real brick. However, after getting the cabinet away, it damn near fell down if you leaned against it. With a few hammer hits on each block, it came loose and we were able to get all the brick out easily.

First, we had to cut across the laminate countertop to save as large a piece as possible so that it could be re-used. A jig saw did the trick there. Once we got that peice off we moved on to the brick.
Caution: Wear Goggles when hammering brick and mortar!
A bit of mortar shot off into my eye. In thine EYE!
Be careful, troopers.




We're probably going to re-use this brick as a walkway to our pool, whenever that happens.
But we will re-use it in some way.